Associational privacy is the ability of individuals to form and join the groups they wish to, combined with the right of the group to withhold information about the individuals within it from outsiders, including the state, thereby restricting the ability of outsiders to act against it. Associational privacy is a keystone of law in many nations and was a key factor in the US civil rights movement, protecting organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from aggressive policing in some Southern US states.
However, associational privacy may clash with non-discrimination law or equality principles, as for example with a club that wished to bar ethnic minority members, or a women’s sports event that wished to exclude trans women.
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See also: GROUP PRIVACY
Allen, A.L., 2011. Associational privacy and the First Amendment: NAACP v. Alabama, privacy and data protection. Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, 1(1), 1–13.
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Allen, A.L., 2011. Associational privacy and the First Amendment: NAACP v. Alabama, privacy and data protection. Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, 1(1), 1–13.
