Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

right of privacy

1. The right to personal autonomy. ( The U.S. Constitution does not explicitly provide for a right of privacy, but the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that this right is implied in the "zones of privacy" created by specific constitutional guarantees. 2. The right of a person and the person's property to be free from unwarranted public scrutiny or exposure. - Also termed right to privacy. See INVASION OF PRIVACY.