William Prosser

William Prosser was the Dean of the College of Law of UC Berkeley from 1948-1961. He is most famous for being a tort scholar, and taxonomising privacy harms into four harmful activities:

• Intrusion upon the plaintiff’s seclusion or solitude, or into his private affairs.

• Public disclosure of embarrassing private facts about the plaintiff.

• Publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye.

• Appropriation, for the defendant’s advantage, of the plaintiff’s name or like- ness.