The article is still cited in US legal argument today and is credited with having paved the way for the country's privacy laws.
Could the row over Twitter and instant messaging do the same for Britain?
The idea that a citizen has “the right to be let alone” became part of American cultural identity and today public disclosure of embarrassing private facts is a civil offence if the details are deemed to be non-newsworthy, private and highly offensive to a reasonable person.
In California the state constitution regards privacy as an “inalienable right” and in Montana personal privacy “shall not be infringed without the showing of compelling state interest”.
It is, of course, the debate over how one should define “compelling” and “newsworthy” that means America’s privacy laws are still evolving.
“Yellow journalism” - celebrity-based tabloid gossip and revelation, is still a huge industry in the United States and there is always going to be a tension between people who enjoy the trappings of a public life and those who demand the freedom to publish details of celebrity private life.
But the US has at least attempted to answer the questions which current debate about injunctions forces us to confront in the UK.
What is private? And, when push comes to shove, who should decide?
The arguments of the last week have exposed an ancient tension between Parliament and the judiciary.
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