Is privacy a right? (Score 1)

I don't think privacy is a right. As a child, I didn't buy any of the things I used.

I have the fouth ammendment here, and I don't see anything that says that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasnoable searches and seisures is dependant on their buying habbits, and to the best of my knowledge children are people.

My parents have as much right to look on a computer in their house as I do now in my own now that I am living on my own.

I own my computer, but I don't own my house. Does that mean my landlord can browse through my machine's files? When you go to a friends house, do they have a right to strip search you?

There may be good reasons to permit a certain amount of privacy to children

The reasons are the same as for anyone else. If a child has no right to privacy, neither do you.

I'm not trying to say that a parent would never have any good reason to go through a kid's stuff, but there should be reasonable grounds for it, just as with a police search.