摘要：Privacy law has been an instrument of social change. Privacy-based legal arguments have been used to support progressive claims that government must cease to criminalize morally controversial per-sonal choices.1But privacy law has also been an effective instrument of social stasis. Privacy-based legal arguments have been used to sup-port conservative claims that neither government nor fellow citizens can interfere with traditional practices merely for the sake of progres-sive ideas about marriage, family, social life, or citizenship.2To illu-strate these points, I explore themes of social progress and social sta-sis through an examination of First Amendment3privacy doctrines. The Supreme Court has identified associational privacy, information-al privacy, anonymity, and privacies of religion, thought, and intellect as requirements of the First Amendment, giving rise to a robust First Amendment jurisprudence of privacy and private choice
