The Summer 1975 issue of Philosophy & Public Affairs featured three articles on privacy, one by Judith Jarvis Thomson, one by Thomas Scanlon in response to Thomson, and one by James Rachels in response to them both. Thomson starts from the observation that “the most striking thing about the right to privacy is that nobody seems to have any very clear idea what it is” (p. 295) and goes on to argue that nobody should have one—a very clear idea, that is. Her argument is essentially that all the various protections to which we feel the right to privacy entitles us are already included under other rights, such as “the cluster of rights which the right over the person consists in and also … the cluster of rights which owning property consists in” (p. 306). After a romp through some exquisitely fanciful examples, she poses and answers some questions about some of the kinds of “invasions” we would likely think of as violations of the right to privacy: