After discovering that a Fordham Law class had compiled a 15-page dossier on Supreme Court Justice Scalia based on information freely available on the Internet (see here and here), we decided to call up the Supreme Court to find out what the Justice thought about the privacy invasion.
He got back to us (through the Court's Public Information Office) rather quickly. He was not pleased to have his privacy invaded, but stood by his stance on privacy rights: that aggregation of such publicly available data is legal. He argued though that such things should not be done, not for legal reasons but for moral ones.
"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," wrote Justice Scalia.
Check out our post over at Above The Law, including Scalia's message in full.
Justice Scalia Responds to Fordham Privacy Invasion! [Above The Law]
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