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Torts
Resource 7 . 2 . 1
10 minutes

Nader v. General Motors Corporation, 255 N.E.2d 765 (N.Y. 1970)

Kathleen,
Mary R Ziegler,
Molly Flash

            Another major privacy tort, intrusion upon seclusion, deals not with the airing out of sensitive information but with surveillance and snooping. Here, in other words, the problem lies partly in how a defendant goes about obtaining information. But how should courts draw the line between legitimate investigation—or accidental observation—and invasions of privacy? What factors should be paramount? Consider these questions in reading the next two cases

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