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EIGHT NAILS INTO KATZ’S COFFIN 59
A psychologist may argue that the legal community is holding on to Katz
because it does not want to regress to the property-based, home-centered
privacy doctrine—but, in effect, Katz does little to move the protection of
privacy beyond the home’s walls. The time has come to develop a cyber
age privacy doctrine that focuses on secondary use rather than on pri-
mary collection of personal information, a subject that deserves a separate
treatment. 66
