中文摘要 |
"喬治亞州政府堅決捍衛本案被上訴人Cohn質疑合憲性的喬治亞州州法§ 26-9901條和依該條之規定提起的普通法侵害隱私損害賠償訴訟。喬治亞州政府的主張並非欠缺說服力,因為確實可提出有力論點,而且已經提出,無論隱私區域最終如何界定,每個人的周圍確實有州政府可保護他免受媒體大肆報導所侵擾的隱私區域。事實上,隱私權這個概念源自沃倫(Warren)和布蘭岱斯(Brandeis)合著的隱私權文章《隱私權》(The Right to Privacy)。《隱私權》一文的中心論點認為,新聞媒體公開揭露重要個人資訊,逾越媒體特權界線,應對此類涉嫌濫權行為予以賠償。Georgia stoutly defends both § 26-9901 and the State's common-law privacy action challenged here. Its claims are not without force, for powerful arguments can be made, and have been made, that however it may be ultimately defined, there is a zone of privacy surrounding every individual, a zone within which the State may protect him from intrusion by the press, with all its attendant publicity. Indeed, the central thesis of the root article by Warren and Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, was that the press was overstepping its prerogatives by publishing essentially private information and that there should be a remedy for the alleged abuses." |