Privacy Protection Act, a law that provides some protection for media association that are target of government searches. The PPA was the Congressional reaction to Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, (1978). Zurcher v. Stanford Daily (1978) is a United States Supreme Court case from 1978 in which The Stanford Daily, a student newspaper at Stanford University, was searched by police after they presumed the paper to be in control of photos of an exhibit that occurred at the campus' medical center. The court ruled against The Stanford Daily; however, Congress passed the Privacy Protection Act of 1980. PPA shields columnists from being required to turn over to law authorization any work item before it is spread to the general population. PPA are for those
