- Quote: "intends to restrain governmental and private actions that threaten the privacy of individuals."
Understanding the various forms of invasion of privacy, including intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light, and appropriation.
Constitutional Rights and Privacy: This covers the fundamental right to privacy and its interpretation under the United States Constitution.
Private Facts: This involves the publication of private details of an individual's life, such as personal habits, physical attributes, and personal finances.
Intrusion upon Seclusion: This relates to situations where an individual's privacy is violated by trespassing or monitoring their private space, such as home or office.
False Light: This involves the publication of information that could misrepresent an individual or entity, even though the information true.
Public Disclosure of Private Facts: This relates to situations where private information is made available publicly, such as in a newspaper or online.
Right to be Forgotten: This is the concept that individuals can request the removal of digital information from the internet.
Journalistic Ethics and Responsibility: This involves the ethical considerations and responsibilities that journalists have towards reporting and publishing information that is in the public interest.
Copyright and Intellectual Property: This includes laws and regulations that protect the intellectual property of individuals and corporations, such as copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
Cyberbullying and Cyber-Harassment: This involves the use of technology to bully, harass, or intimidate individuals online.
Revenge Porn: This involves the non-consensual distribution of private sexual images or videos.
Surveillance and Government Access to Information: This covers government or institutional access to private information through surveillance or monitoring.
Social Media Privacy: This involves the ways that social media platforms use and monetize user data and the ethical implications of these practices.
Data Privacy Laws and Regulations: This includes laws and regulations related to the privacy and protection of individuals' personal data, such as GDPR in the European Union and CCPA in California.
Digital Security and Cybersecurity: This includes the measures taken to protect information and prevent unauthorized access, such as encryption and cybersecurity tools.
Employee Privacy: This includes laws and regulations that protect employees' privacy in the workplace, such as monitoring of computer usage and email communications.
Intrusion: When someone enters private property, space, or conversation without permission or sees/hears private information.
Publication of private facts: When someone publicly reveals private information that is not newsworthy or of public interest.
False light: When private information is published, but the information is inaccurate.
Appropriation: When someone uses someone else's name or image without permission for commercial or other gain.
Public disclosure of private facts: When truthful information of private nature is published or broadcasted without consent.
Intrusion upon seclusion: When someone illegally monitors private communications or personal spaces.
Misappropriation of identity: When someone else's name, likeness, or identity is used without permission for commercial or other gain.
Disclosure of private information online: When someone's private information is exposed on the internet without permission.
Cyberstalking: The use of technology to harass or intimidate someone online, resulting in invasion of privacy.
Revenge porn: When explicit images or videos are published online without the subject's consent.
- Quote: "Over 150 national constitutions mention the right to privacy."
- Quote: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)."
- Quote: "many interpret this through Article 12, which states: 'No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence...'"
- Quote: "Since the global surveillance disclosures of 2013, initiated by ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden..."
- Quote: "Government agencies, such as the NSA, FBI, CIA, R&AW, and GCHQ, have engaged in mass, global surveillance."
- Quote: "whether privacy can co-exist with the current capabilities of intelligence agencies", "whether or not the right to privacy is forfeited as part of the social contract", "whether threats of terrorism are a valid excuse to spy on the general population."
- Quote: "technology companies, such as Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo that use and collect personal data."
- Quote: "including the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal..."
- Quote: "psychographic company Cambridge Analytica which used personal data from Facebook."
- Quote: "intelligence agencies to access and analyze many details of an individual's life."
- Quote: "whether privacy can co-exist with the current capabilities of intelligence agencies to access and analyze many details of an individual's life."
- Quote: "whether or not the right to privacy is forfeited as part of the social contract to bolster defense against supposed terrorist threats."
- Quote: "whether threats of terrorism are a valid excuse to spy on the general population."
- Quote: "technology companies... that use and collect personal data."
- Quote: "originally written to guarantee individual rights of everyone everywhere."
- Quote: "an element of various legal traditions."
- Quote: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence..."
- Quote: N/A
- Quote: "ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden."