Article by Natalie Regoli - A Tort for Prying E-eyes
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As the number of users browsing the Internet continues to grow at a staggering pace, organizations and companies doing business on the Internet are busy developing new and unobtrusive means to covertly gather personal information about these users. In this Article, author Natalie Regoli contends that the privacy Internet users would and should reasonably expect is purely illusory. The large amount of increasingly personal information companies are collecting from unwitting Internet users is a grave violation of civil liberties which may ultimately result in the loss of a user’s sense of self being. Ms. Regoli argues that current privacy laws and the Federal Trade Commission’s urging of self-regulation by Internet companies is not, and will not be adequate to protect user’s privacy on-line. The author ultimately suggests the creation of a new common law tort against companies who continue to steal personal information from Internet users without their consent.
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