The foundational articulation of privacy torts comes from the influential work of William Prosser, who, in the mid-20th century, divided privacy wrongs into four distinct torts.
And what's really, really important for us to remember right from the get-go, I think, is that each of these torts, they're protecting a different aspect of your privacy.
The statute grants American district courts jurisdiction over “any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or of a treaty of the United States”.
Allows such a case to be made because it hasn't been be so because you have to show, for example, that you had copyright and that her infringement actually caused you damages.
It is the only way to end the suffering of millions of Venezuelans at the hands of the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro and to deliver justice to the victims of the regime's horrific abuses.
In our next session, we will explore the fourth privacy tort, public disclosure of private facts, and analyze how courts distinguish it from the torts we have discussed today.
在下一节课中,我们将探讨第四种隐私权——公开私人事实(public disclosure of private facts),并分析法院如何将其与我们今天讨论的权区分开来。