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Originally Posted by New Era
There is no such right afforded in the constitution of the United States. You may be conflating an individual's 4th amendment right, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized," as a statement of privacy, but as you can read it is not. The 14th amendment affords due process rights, but does not grant privacy. Laws established at the federal and state levels speak to specific types of privacy, but not to privacy in general. No where in the constitution does the word privacy exist.
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Textually accurate, but misleading and not correct in practice.
See Griswold v Connecticut, for a more complete response.