Abstract: Are there any common threads to the legal and philosophic privacy arguments? Careful exploration of the legal and philosophical privacy debates reveals that they express common concerns and that a framework for thinking about the definition and value of privacy can be constructed from them. In this chapter, I show how this framework emerges from thinking about such theorists as Anita Allen, Ferdinand Schoeman, and William Prosser.

Keywords: Anita Allen, privacy, William Prosser, Ferdinand Schoeman, value,