I stand by my remark … that it is silly to think that every single datum about my life is private. I was referring, of course, to whether every single datum about my life deserves privacy protection in law … It is not a rare phenomenon that what is legal may also be quite irresponsible. That appears in the First Amendment context all the time. What can be said often should not be said. Prof. Reidenberg’s exercise is an example of perfectly legal, abominably poor judgment. Since he was not teaching a course in judgment, I presume he felt no responsibility to display any.
Justice Antonin Scalia in response to Fordham Law Professor Joel R. Reidenberg who instructed his class to put together a 15 page dossier on Scalia using only publicly available information on the internet. Scalia’s recent comments on his own complete privacy being “silly” prompted the exercise. [via & via]
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