California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Shulman v. Group W Productions, Inc., 18 Cal.4th 200, 74 Cal.Rptr.2d 843 (Cal. 1998):
In Wolfson v. Lewis, supra, 924 F.Supp. 1413, television reporters doing a story on the high salaries paid to executives of health care companies physically pursued a family that included three such executives in an effort to get "ambush" interviews with them, and attempted to intercept with a directional microphone conversations they had at a family home. The federal district court granted preliminary injunctive relief against such behavior, finding the plaintiffs likely to prevail on their claim the reporters' harassment and spying was a highly offensive intrusion into their privacy. (Id. at pp. 1432-1434.) The court expressly stated its finding of a tortious intrusion was not based on any alleged trespass. (Id. at p. 1434.) Nor was the court's finding of a tortious intrusion logically dependent on violation of state anti-eavesdropping statutes, although two such statutes were cited in support of the privacy element of the intrusion tort (in the same manner as we have cited section 632). (924 F.Supp. at p. 1434.)
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