What legal tools do privacy advocates have available to defend an individual's right to privacy? How far does this right go? How should these rights be defended — or if necessary — curtailed? What is the role of Government, of the practicing bar, and of academics?

Privacy has an image problem. Over and over again, regardless of the forum in which it is debated, it is cast as old-fashioned at best and downright harmful at worst — anti-progressive, overly costly, and inimical to the welfare of the body politic. Yet the perception of privacy as antiquated...