"Thus, Warren and Brandeis derived their common law right to privacy by generalising from specific instances of the right to be “let alone” already registered at common law: “[T]he protection afforded to thoughts, sentiments and emotions, expressed through the medium of writing or of the arts, so far as it consists in preventing publication, is merely an instance of the enforcement of the more general right of the individual to be let alone”. Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy” (1890) 4 Harvard Law Review 193 at 205. They added that the underlying ratinale was “in reality not the principle of private property, but that of an inviolate personality”."
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