Genuine rights to privacy rest upon other established liberties — primarily property and contract. Property rights will decide whether, say, placing a GPS device on the bottom of your car (a case to be heard by the highest court next month) without a warrant constitutes an invasion of privacy. I think it does.
On the other hand, a society whose inhabitants voluntarily reveal the most intimate of detail about their lives via Facebook hardly seems credible when feigning outrage over a lack of privacy.
He’s right. Privacy is part and parcel to other rights.
Your right to not be searched by the police without a warrant isn’t a right to privacy. In fact, it’s a freedom from intrusive government. The idea of a “right to” something is a misnomer. You don’t have a “right to” things, you have a “freedom from.” In a country that values its liberty, freedoms from tyranny and government interference are the most important thing you can have.