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Rethinking Information Privacy In An Age Of Online Transparency, Robert Sprague
Rethinking Information Privacy In An Age Of Online Transparency, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
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Orwell Was An Optimist: The Evolution Of Privacy In The United States And Its De-Evolution For American Employees, Robert Sprague
Orwell Was An Optimist: The Evolution Of Privacy In The United States And Its De-Evolution For American Employees, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
This Article argues that the difficulties associated with understanding and applying rights to privacy in modern America, and its near extinction, particularly for employees, are a direct result of the conceptual approach used to determine whether a legal right to privacy exists. This approach was formally adopted in the latter part of the twentieth century and it makes privacy protection dependent upon any given situation, determined by whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy for that given situation. This makes the current right to privacy in the United States contextual, fluid, and easily subject to elimination. One of the …