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Privacy interests

Abstract:

This chapter first introduces the concepts of privacy and the right to privacy, and the development of privacy law. It then examines how traditional invasion of privacy claims have been applied to speech in cyberspace. In the final section, the chapter focuses on several specific issues crucial to the protection of online privacy, including data collection, online profiling, and data protection paradigms.

Key words

Privacy

privacy law

appropriation

intrusion on seclusion

disclosure of private facts

data collection

data protection

online profiling

With the rapid development of information technology, human society has entered into an era of unprecedented information explosion. People avail themselves of the Internet ...

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