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Cyber-Security, Privacy, And The Covid-19 Attenuation?, Vincent J. Samar
Cyber-Security, Privacy, And The Covid-19 Attenuation?, Vincent J. Samar
Journal of Legislation
Large-scale data brokers collect massive amounts of highly personal consumer information to be sold to whoever will pay their price, even at the expense of sacrificing individual privacy and autonomy in the process. In this Article, I will show how a proper understanding and justification for a right to privacy, in context to both protecting private acts and safeguarding information and states of affairs for the performance of such acts, provides a necessary background framework for imposing legal restrictions on such collections. This problem, which has already gained some attention in literature, now becomes even more worrisome, as government itself …