Idaho

Idaho has recognized the four privacy torts.

Intrusion: A television station that filmed the arrest of a nude man was not liable for intrusion. The news media can report the details of an arrest, even if it results in disclosure of embarrassing private facts about the person arrested, as long as the report is made without malice. Taylor v. KTVB Inc., 525 P.2d 984 (Idaho 1974).

A couple who used a radio scanner to overhear and record their neighbors cordless telephone conversation, during which a murder plot allegedly was revealed, may have intruded upon the neighbors seclusion. A statutory provision maki ng it illegal to intercept cordless telephone calls arguably created a legitimate expectation of privacy regarding the contents of the neighbors conversation and established grounds for an intrusion claim. Hoskins v. Howard, No. 23755 (Idaho Dec. 4, 1998).

Private facts: A couple who recorded a neighbors telephone conversation by using a radio scanner alleged that the conversation revealed a murder plot and, consequently, provided the recording to law enforcement authorities. The couple may have published private facts about their neighbor in doing so because an Idaho law making the interception of cordless telephone calls illegal may have created a legitimate expectation that cordless calls would be remain private. Hoskins v. Howard, No. 23755 (Idaho Dec. 4, 1998).

False light: After a man and his wife used a radio scanner to intercept and record a neighbors cordless telephone conversation, which allegedly included a death threat against the wife, they turned the recording over to the sheriffs office. Regardless of whether the recorded conversation could reasonably be interpreted as a death threat, the disclosure to the sheriffs office contained no "materially false" information, and thus, could not be grounds for a false light claim. Hoskins v. Howard, No. 23755 (Idaho Dec. 4, 1998).