Your Privacy Deserves Protection.

At The Spitz Law Firm, we recognize the need to protect your privacy and we have been at the forefront of litigating many of the ever evolving issues in this area of law in Ohio and across the county, including internet privacy rights, workplace privacy, tenancy issues.

The growing omnipresence of the internet has caused us to change the way we look at privacy. Almost every website that you visit collects data about you, some with your knowledge and some without. What the owners and/or operators of these website do with the information that it collects about you is often governed by that website's terms and conditions of use and/or privacy statements, which may form a binding contract between you and the owners/operators. Your invasion of privacy attorneys at The Spitz Law Firm have been on the forefront of these issues in Ohio and across the country, including high profile cases against Perez Hilton.

Historically, the initially idea of a right to privacy a legal context was raised within by two young attorneys, Louis Brandeis, who later became a Supreme Court justice, and Samuel D. Warren. In 1890, the two published an article entitled "The Right to Privacy" in the Harvard Law Review arguing that the constitution and the common law allowed for the deduction of a general "right to privacy." Subsequently, renowned legal expert Dean Prosser argued that "privacy" was composed of four separate torts, the only unifying element of which was a (vague) "right to be left alone." Eventually, the United States Supreme Court ruled that there is a limited constitutional right of privacy based on a number of provisions in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments. This includes a right to privacy from government surveillance into an area where a person has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" and also in matters relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, child rearing and education.

In addition to the ongoing development in internet privacy agreements, modern invasion of privacy common laws have evolved to essentially protect individuals in four different ways: intrusion of solitude, public disclosure of private facts, false light, and appropriation. The "intrusion of solitude" claim in an invasion of privacy lawsuit applies to an actual physical or electronic penetration of a person's private home or other personal space. In a "public disclosure of private facts" situation, the facts themselves may be completely true, but the method of obtaining those facts and publishing them could constitute an invasion of privacy - such as rummaging through garbage or illegally pulling information off private computers. The "appropriation" situation occurs when one party uses the name or image of another without permission for commercial purposes.

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