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Privacy Wrongs In Search Of Remedies, Joel R. Reidenberg
Privacy Wrongs In Search Of Remedies, Joel R. Reidenberg
Faculty Scholarship
The American legal system has generally rejected legal rights for data privacy and relies instead on market self-regulation and the litigation process to establish norms of appropriate behavior in society. Information privacy is protected only through an amalgam of narrowly targeted rules. The aggregation of these specific rights leaves many significant gaps and fewer clear remedies for violations of fair information practices. With an absence of well-established legal rights, privacy wrongs are currently in search of remedies. This Article first describes privacy rights and wrongs that frame the search for remedies in the United States. It explores public enforcement of, …
Federal Legislative Proposals For The Protection Of Privacy , Ludmila Kaniuga-Golad
Federal Legislative Proposals For The Protection Of Privacy , Ludmila Kaniuga-Golad
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Previously, privacy rights had to be litigated under one of the four recognized tort claim of actions. With the advent of the computer age, it was argued that new causes of actions should be created to supplement the individually recognized privacy rights of the people. At the time this article was written, several privacy related bills were before congress. The note examines the benefits of the bills proposed, and the (justified) failure of the proposals to consider a single federal information data bank due to its inability to safeguard privacy. It also synopsizes the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights' findings on …