Is Privacy a Right? | Linux Journal

So this article states: "It is also a fundamental right, not a privilege to be bestowed on anyone. The individual should have the right to determine the extent of his privacy." YOU do have the right to have privacy....but you gave way your privacy when you joined the internet. Google, Facebook, and TW are all FREE. Why???? If you get free money or pots of gold, do you really think those companies love you so much that they do all this work and no one takes a check? Do you think they work for free? Something is of value in those companies. It is your private data, which you give away for free. Nothing is free in life.

Privacy is as much of an individual responsibility as it is an individual right.

No privacy in public.
Apps and pages require agreements whereby users waive some privacy rights.
4 Amendment protects some of our privacy, but only from the government, although some laws may result in information we may consider private, which are actually public records, so a FOIA request would permit release.
HIPPA protects health information, but doesn't permit individual action through a court for violations of the same.
Judges can issue warrants and/or authorize release of records held by private companies (cell records), if probable cause is presented, or fabricated. Fabrication usually has no penalty, since the folks fabricating it are part of the system that has the authority to bring charges, or not.
Bottom line is: Don't send or say anything over telecommunications or the internet that you would mind if someone knew about. Don't do anything in public that you don't want others to know about.