Legal Dictionary
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zone of privacy : an area or aspect of life that is held to be protected from intrusion by a specific constitutional guarantee (as of the right to be secure in one's person, house, papers, or effects against unreasonable searches or seizures) or is the object of an expectation of privacy
zone of privacy, upon a showing of proper government interest —Stenger v. Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, 609 Atlantic Reporter, Second Series 796 (1992)> —compare EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY, PENUMBRA 2