Privacy Law

"In recent years, information privacy has emerged as one of the central issues of our times. Today, we have hundreds of laws pertaining to privacy: the common law torts, criminal law, evidentiary privileges, constitutional law, at least twenty federal statutes, and numerous statutes in each of the fifty states. To understand the law of information privacy more completely, it is necessary to look to its origins and growth. Technology has played a large role in the story of the emergence of information privacy law. Frequently, new laws emerge in response to changes in technology that have increased the collection, dissemination, and use of personal information." (From Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age.)

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