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The Privacy Matrix, Corey A. Ciocchetti
The Privacy Matrix, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Corey A Ciocchetti
The twenty-first-century e-commerce environment is a scary place. Lurking within are technologically-sophisticated e-threats ready to compromise an individual’s personally identifying information (PII). At the same time, consumers submit vast amounts of PII into cyberspace without comprehending such dangers while businesses stumble to protect the information they collect and sell it on the open market. The United States legal system – currently a mixture of self-regulation and a patchwork of federal/state legislation – is ill-equipped to deal with these e-threats effectively. A new paradigm is needed. The Privacy Matrix paradigm categorizes the most prominent e-threats into three stages of the PII …
E-Commerce And Information Privacy: Privacy Policies As Personal Information Protectors, Corey A. Ciocchetti
E-Commerce And Information Privacy: Privacy Policies As Personal Information Protectors, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Corey A Ciocchetti
This article dives into the contemporary debate surrounding information privacy in the twenty-first century e-commerce environment through the lens of consumers submitting personally identifying information into the vast abyss of cyberspace. I argue that this information must be better protected and that United States law should emphasize electronic privacy policies as privacy-protecting devices. Currently, the United States operates under primarily a self-regulatory environment where the federal and state governments allow industry to regulate the use and content of their privacy policies. This article details current state of the United States legal regime, addresses its inefficiencies in this area and proposes …