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Torts: Right to Privacy

            
             "The ability of the World Wide Web to penetrate every home and community has both positive and negative implications - while it can be an invaluable source of information and means of communication, it can also override community values and standards subjecting them to whatever more may or may not be found online . The Internet is a challenge to sovereignty of civilized communities, states and nations to decide what is appropriate and decent behaviour."".
             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. Yet this very strength of the internet is also its greatest weakness as the inability to trace the ide4ntity of the users of the Internet coupled with its open unregulated nature makes it fertile gravel for criminal enterprises.
             One primary defining attribute of the Internet is the sheer volume of personal information it generates every day through its mere usage by "Netizens-. The web collects information about its users at all times and without notice ; often some websites collect information from children without parental involvement.
             They're watching you. Each time you view a Web page , enter an online contest or purchase items they take note. Who are "they-? Often they are Internet Service Providers (ISPs) , marketers , and businesses .


Essays Related to Torts: Right to Privacy

1. To Print or Not to Print

Even though it is not mentioned, the Right to Privacy' is understood by most people, but what some people may not know there are four torts included in privacy: appropriation, intrusion, false light and private facts. All of these torts are well defined with specific boundaries, except for private facts. It is vague, barely punished and is usually the tort victims use to file suits under. "The right to privacy is just a right, a right based not on constitutional guarantees,""(Gates Jr. 2000). Although the right to privacy' has gained significant public support and strength, the...

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2. Freedom of Speech: Snyder vs. Phelps

Roughly forty years later, the Court first recognized that state tort law constitutes state action and, therefore, the First Amendment can operate as a safeguard to defendants exercising their right. ... Sullivan, the Supreme Court began "constitutionalizing"" state tort claims to actualize First Amendment protection of speech subject to tort liability. ... The complaint asserted two counts of invasion of privacy (intrusion on seclusion, publicity given to private life), as well as defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. ... Bennett of the Maryland courts granted summary ...

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3. Legal Assignment

The section applicable to the above situation comes under the law of torts the. ... The law of torts can be broken up into four main sections that cover most damage in respect to the case Mr Kline could claim. ... • Private Nuisance- Where a private company causes unreasonable interference with another person's privacy also the occupier's right to enjoy their land without interference. ... This will give Mr Kline right to enjoy his land. ... The Tort Concerned in this case would be Negligence, which states, where a person (Mr. ...

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4. Cyberlaw in the United States

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5. Theory Y

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Negligent Hiring/Retention

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7. Information Technology For Health Care Administration

Although the adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has grown in recent years, both patients and physicians still have concerns about the security and privacy of EHRs (Sage Healthcare, 2011). ... Patient privacy and risk of tort liability has much to do with the reticence. ... EHR: Risk Assessment & HIPAA Security Hospitals are implementing EHR systems without properly securing patient information; thereby compromising privacy. ...

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8. Domestic Violence

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9. The Exclusionary Rule

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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