Judging by the impression one receives on browsing through articles in the media, it would seem that the Internet will a lawless dimension as the law cannot cope with the breakdown of national barriers , the cross-border implications of the interlinking of computers worldwide. The scenario painted is that “lawyers and clients will have no idea as to what to do or how to control the activities of others.”

The Supreme Court of the USA has defined the Internet as “an international network of interconnected computers .... a unique and wholly new medium of human communication.”.The Internet has proved to be one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. It’s strength and purpose is the facilitation and dissemination of information at warp speed

A landmark judgement pertinent to this issue of privacy on the Internet is that of P.U.C.L v. Union of India . While this case dealt with the issue if “telephone tapping” , the principles of law laid down in it can easily be applied if a tort claim fails to redress the invasion of privacy on the internet(under the head “Tort of Intrusion to Seclusion”) . This is because the principles applied hold true for invasions of privacy by all technological media .

Services such as Reel.com’s Mood Matcher use clever, inventive methodologies to collect data regarding customers. The highly intrusive psychographic data that is gathered through the Mood Matcher , for example , would have otherwise been diffucult to collect through offline methods such as standard registration forms . Combined with information collected by cookies or third party data , the organisation gains insight into a customers’ motivations , desires and interests.

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