Intellectual Privacy

After tracking the origins of privacy theory and showing how the original idea, as promoted by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, was flawed at its conception and misapplied over time, Richards carefully constructs a theory about the incubation of new ideas and explains that respect for privacy allows for intellectual exploration and development. This later section, in which Richards moves away from parsing court decisions in favor of a broader philosophical inquiry, is the heart of the book and stands as its main and important contribution to the literature. * S. B. Lichtman, Shippensburg University, CHOICE * This book brings fresh perspective and some clear ideas to privacy law and its interaction with freedom of speech. This book is stimulating and thought-provoking, and is recommended for those with an interest in privacy, free speech, and the interplay of those with technological innovation. * Arye Schreiber, The Cambridge Law Journal * Intellectual Privacy is a book that every privacy scholar needs to read and a book that deserves a much wider readership than that. Though it is a legal book the detailed legal and historical analyses that Richards provides throughout the book are scholarly and yet accessible it has implications well beyond the law, from business practices to personal responsibilities. * Paul Bernal, International Data Privacy Law *