Morfe V. Mutuc Case Study

The right to privacy, or the right to be let alone, was institutionalized in the 1987 Constitution as a facet of the right protected by the guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. But the Court acknowledged its existence as early as 1968 in Morfe v. Mutuc, when it ruled that “the right to privacy exists independently of its identification with liberty; it is in itself fully deserving of constitutional protection.”