Privacy Attorney
How are Privacy and the Law related?
The concept of personal privacy and the right to have a space that is truly private goes back many centuries and is a basic human need. From English Common Law comes the phrase “a man’s home is his castle” referring to the sanctity of that space as a private refuge from all whom the owner wishes to exclude.
The Constitution of the United States infers certain rights to maintain privacy through several of the Amendments and how they have been interpreted. The Fourth Amendment guarantees that people will be free from unreasonable search and seizure of their persons, houses, papers and affects. This codifies into American law the principle that the individual is entitled to have the integrity of their person, property, transactions and dealings undisturbed and private to the extent that the individual wishes they remain private. Only upon reasonable suspicion of crime may a person’s privacy be breached without their consent.
Modernly there are many reasons to consciously seek more privacy. For a very few people there will be a serious threat to safety or security by a breach of their privacy. Whistleblowers might need to protect their identity and might need a whistleblower attorney to help them avoid retribution or discrimination. For many others there is the real possibility that disclosure of private personal information could lead to fraud, harassment or frivolous lawsuits. Still for others, there is simply a creepy feeling that they get knowing how much of their private data might be floating around in the cloud of digital bits for anyone to see. The volume of data now available on any individual is truly mind-boggling and there are very few daily activities of the average person that are not recorded and stored in a database somewhere.
The law offers many tools to help people take affirmative steps to protect the privacy of themselves, their families and their data. Following are just some of the legal instruments and tools that I can help provide to people who wish to assert their right to maintain their privacy.
- Trust formation to own property
- LLC/Corporation formation to hold property and to carry out daily transactions
- Contract drafting including clauses to protect privacy
- Whistleblower Attorney
- Advice on lifestyle and habits that contribute to privacy
- And many other tools…
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