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Not really, tort law is very old, and the idea of "actual damages" is pretty well formed. "Reputational damages" exists in libel.
Privacy in English and Scottish common law is .. developing. e.g. https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/common-law-right-... / https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/speech_100825.pdf (the huge transformative effect of the human rights act, which does explicitly contain a right to privacy)
Being surveilled is uncomfortable but making a formal legal argument against it in the US context is tricky. The US does too much social change through court decisions, anyway; this would be far better as an explicitly political argument.
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Not really, tort law is very old, and the idea of "actual damages" is pretty well formed. "Reputational damages" exists in libel.
Privacy in English and Scottish common law is .. developing. e.g. https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/common-law-right-... / https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/speech_100825.pdf (the huge transformative effect of the human rights act, which does explicitly contain a right to privacy)
Being surveilled is uncomfortable but making a formal legal argument against it in the US context is tricky. The US does too much social change through court decisions, anyway; this would be far better as an explicitly political argument.