Robert Ellis Smith (September 6, 1940 – July 25, 2018)[1][2] was an American attorney, author, and a publisher/journalist whose focus is mainly privacy rights.

After college, he wrote for newspapers such as the Detroit Free Press, Newsday in New York City, and The Southern Courier.

It is the desire of each of us for physical space where we can be free of interruption, intrusion, embarrassment, or accountability and the attempt to control the time and manner of disclosures of personal information about ourselves.

This allows individuals to consult their palm devices, in the workplace or the marketplace, to determine whether privacy protections cover certain transactions.

Smith posed as President Kennedy, fooling the crowd in a notorious stunt at the Harvard-Yale football game in 1961.

It includes up-close portraits of Castro, Robert F. Kennedy, Steinem, James Hoffa, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and many others based on a six decades career in journalism.