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[…] with Two Factor Authentication. The US government’s PIV-I rules for employees and contractors were a response to Homeland Security Pres idential Directive HSPD-12. Cell phone operators and airlines likewise now require ext ra proof of ID. Medical malpractice in various places has led hospitals to tighten their b ackground checks on new staff. By […]

[…] efficient and trustworthy functioning of the GDI. 2. Flexible Technology Neutral Laws and Regulations. Sensible regulation of the GDI need not require the creation of new principles. Ample flexibility exists in many current laws, principles and regulations dealing with aspects of data protection, privacy and security. For example, th e OECD Guidelines on the […]

The Future of Reputation This page intentionally left blank The Future of Reputation Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet Daniel J. Solove Yale University Press New Haven and London To Papa Nat A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org Copyright © 2007 by Daniel J. Solove. All rights reserved. This book may not […]

[…] was mostly predictable. 257 252 . Zittrain, Privacy 2.0 , supra note 147, at 65 . 253 . Id. 254 . See Id. at 81 (stating ―[w]ith cheap sensors, processors, and networks, citizens can quickly distribute to anywhere in the world what they capture in their backyard. Therefore, any activity is subject to recording […]

[…]   Zhu asserts the legislation has not resulted in pri vacy treated as an independent right.  Cases involving privacy have tended to be judged ba sed on the tort law of reputation  rather than privacy alone. 23  In the case of tort of reputation, the personal i nvasion is false  and involves libel or slander in damaging the reput ation, personal dignity, or honor. In  the tort of privacy, on the other hand, the persona l information is obtained illegally and  disseminates publically aspects of the person’s pri vate life, and interferes with the  person’s private life thus disturbing the peace of  mind.  The two torts are different.   Disseminated matters in tort of reputation are fals e and the matters revealed in tort of  privacy are real.  The damage from the tort of repu tation can be stopped and the  reputation restored. The damaging effects of the to rt of privacy, however, cannot be  reversed after disclosure of personal information. 24      Rather than focus on legislation and regulation, Mc Dougall 25 views the reactions in the  1970s and 1980s to the tumultuous political upheava l of the Cultural Revolution (1966- 1976)  and Tiananmen Square of 1989 as representing  turning points in transforming the  meaning of privacy.  She introduces the aspect of d omestic environmental factors  influencing the perception of privacy and considera tion of life outside of politics. In                                                     22 Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prote ction of Rights and Interests of Women,  Adopted at the Fifth session of the Seventh Nationa l People’s Congress on April 3, 1992.  Available at http://en.chinacourt.org/public/detail .php?id=123.  23 See Jingchun Cao, “Privacy Special Issue: Protecti ng the Right to Privacy in China,” Victoria  University of Wellington Law Review 36 (October 200 5), pp. 6-9 for examples of cases  demonstrating the difference.   24 Zhu, p. 212-213. With the advent of the Internet,  however, the damage of reputation is hard to  reverse in many cultures. See Daniel J. Solove,  The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and  Privacy on the Internet […]

[…] must be some method of determining its extent and confines. As with the well -known cases of England that Brandeis and Warren discussed in 1890, there are ample similar resources fo r the courts to draw upon in this day and age. The development of the common law based on the principles of the […]

[…] for sophisticated analysis of the data but 0 This paper appears in proceedings of the 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Sym- posium (PETS 2008), Leuven, Belgium, July 23- 25, 2008 and in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html who is curious enough to capture network trac and to see what other network users […]

[…]   Zhu asserts the legislation has not resulted in pri vacy treated as an independent right.  Cases involving privacy have tended to be judged ba sed on the tort law of reputation  rather than privacy alone. 23  In the case of tort of reputation, the personal i nvasion is false  and involves libel or slander in damaging the reput ation, personal dignity, or honor. In  the tort of privacy, on the other hand, the persona l information is obtained illegally and  disseminates publically aspects of the person’s pri vate life, and interferes with the  person’s private life thus disturbing the peace of  mind.  The two torts are different.   Disseminated matters in tort of reputation are fals e and the matters revealed in tort of  privacy are real.  The damage from the tort of repu tation can be stopped and the  reputation restored. The damaging effects of the to rt of privacy, however, cannot be  reversed after disclosure of personal information. 24      Rather than focus on legislation and regulation, Mc Dougall 25 views the reactions in the  1970s and 1980s to the tumultuous political upheava l of the Cultural Revolution (1966- 1976)  and Tiananmen Square of 1989 as representing  turning points in transforming the  meaning of privacy.  She introduces the aspect of d omestic environmental factors  influencing the perception of privacy and considera tion of life outside of politics. In                                                     22 Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prote ction of Rights and Interests of Women,  Adopted at the Fifth session of the Seventh Nationa l People’s Congress on April 3, 1992.  Available at http://en.chinacourt.org/public/detail .php?id=123.  23 See Jingchun Cao, “Privacy Special Issue: Protecti ng the Right to Privacy in China,” Victoria  University of Wellington Law Review 36 (October 200 5), pp. 6-9 for examples of cases  demonstrating the difference.   24 Zhu, p. 212-213. With the advent of the Internet,  however, the damage of reputation is hard to  reverse in many cultures. See Daniel J. Solove,  The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and  Privacy on the Internet […]

[…] ransaction  can  always  contract  for  confidentiality.  This  is  unreal istic  due  because  consumers  suffer  from  privacy  myopia:  they  will  sell  their  data  too  often   and  too  cheaply.  Modest  assumptions  about  consumer  privacy  myopia  suggest  that  even  Ame ricans  who  place  a  high  value  on  information privacy will sell their privacy bit by  bit for frequent flyer miles.”).  106 Id.  107  A  2009  study  showed  that  […]

[…] RIGHTS CLEARINGHOUSE ,supra note 60 and accompanying text. 220 See Cody, supra note 212, at 1184 (“[T]he collection and use of personal identifiable information have never been cheaper or easier.”) (citations omitted). 42 (Model Law) and presents a useful start in the Congressional-encouragement process. At its core, the Model Law is designed to prevent […]