National_ID_Card.pdf (application/pdf Object)

National_ID_Card.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The Constitution does not explicitly provide a right to privacy, but in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965),
the Supreme Court held that “various guarantees create zones of privacy. The right of association
contained in the penumbra of the First Amendment,” and the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth
Amendments were held to give people a right to privacy, and this doctrine has been used in many cases
since. However, there has been some debate over whether the constitutional right to privacy includes
the right to anonymity. Alan Dershowitz, for example, makes the argument that the right to privacy is
solely the right to control one’s personal information and its dissemination, not hide one’s identity. He
said, “American taxpayers, voters, and drivers long ago gave up any right of anonymity without loss of
our right to engage in lawful conduct within zones of privacy.”13 However, the Supreme Court has at
least intimated to a right to anonymous political speech under the First Amendment in a number of
cases.