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  • Data Protection Act

    Data Protection Act Changes to the Data Protection Act in Argentina The following text is from the World Data Protection Report. Volume 8, Number 4, April, 2008. Copyright 2008 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.). Written by Gustavo Daniel Tanús The Argentine legal framework guarantees people their honour and dignity, as well as their…

  • Privacy in Argentina

    Privacy in Argentina Argentina country report of the Epic (Electronic Privacy Infomation Center) survey “Privacy and Human Rights” (2005, 2006 and 2007): Constitutional Privacy Framework Articles 18 and 19 of the Argentine Constitution provide (in part), “The home is inviolable as is personal correspondence and private papers; the law will determine what cases and what…

  • Protection of the Press

    Freedom of the Press: Protection of the PressIntroduction to Protection of the PressIn the 18th century the British Parliament imposed a tax on printed matter. Since it increased the cost of newspapers, it became known as a tax on knowledge. In a 1936 case, the U.S. Supreme Court h…

  • Invasion of Privacy

    Introduction to Invasion of PrivacyInvasion of Privacy, unlawful surveillance or intrusion into a person's private dwelling with intent to expose or encroach upon that person's private affairs." (1)ResourcesNotes and ReferencesInformation about <a href=&qu…

  • Google Buzz Privacy Concerns

    Google Buzz Privacy Concerns Google, like all multinational corporations, must abide by non-U.S. jurisdictions privacy laws when they launch products in those jurisdictions. There were a storm of protest and outrage in 2009-2010 over alleged privacy violations and several authorities also had questions about how Google Buzz has met the requirements of privacy law in…

  • The Right to Privacy 3

    The Right to Privacy   [39] A similar growth of the law showing the development of contractual rights into rights of property is found in the law of good-will. There are indications, as early as The Year Books , of traders endeavoring to secure to themselves by contract the advantages now designated by the term…

  • The Right to Privacy 2

    The Right to Privacy   [34] “The question, therefore, is whether a photographer who has been employed by a customer to take his or her portrait is justified in striking off copies of such photograph for his own use, and selling and disposing of them, or publicly exhibiting them by way of advertisement or otherwise,…

  • The Right to Privacy 11

    The Right to Privacy   [28] Kiernan v. Manhattan Quotation Co., 50 How. Pr. 194 (1876). [29] “The defendants’ counsel say that a man acquiring a knowledge of another’s property without his consent is not by any rule or principle which a court of justice can apply (however secretly he may have kept or endeavored…

  • The Right to Privacy 9

    The Right to Privacy   [10] Cooley on Torts, 2d ed., p. 29. [11] 8 Amer. Law Reg. N.S. 1 (1869); 12 Wash. Law Rep. 353 (1884); 24 Sol. J. & Rep. 4 (1879). [12] Scribner’s Magazine, July, 1890. “The Rights of the Citizen: to His Reputation,”by E. L. Godkin, Esq. pp. 65, 67. [13]…

  • The Right to Privacy 9

    The Right to Privacy   [10] Cooley on Torts, 2d ed., p. 29. [11] 8 Amer. Law Reg. N.S. 1 (1869); 12 Wash. Law Rep. 353 (1884); 24 Sol. J. & Rep. 4 (1879). [12] Scribner’s Magazine, July, 1890. “The Rights of the Citizen: to His Reputation,”by E. L. Godkin, Esq. pp. 65, 67. [13]…

  • The Right to Privacy 8

    The Right to Privacy   The same reasons exist for distinguishing between oral and written publications of private matters, as is afforded in the law of defamation by the restricted liability for slander as compared with the liability for libel.[47] The injury resulting from such oral communications would ordinarily be so trifling that the law…

  • The Right to Privacy 7

    The Right to Privacy   The right of one who has remained a private individual, to prevent his public portraiture, presents the simplest case for such extension; the right to protect one’s self from pen portraiture, from a discussion by the press of one’s private affairs, would be a more important and far-reaching one. If…

  • The Right to Privacy 6

    The Right to Privacy   Thus, in Abernethy v. Hutchinson, 3 L. J. Ch. 209 (1825), where the plaintiff, a distinguished surgeon, sought to restrain the publication in the Lancet of unpublished lectures which he had delivered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, Lord Eldon doubted whether there could be property in lectures which had…

  • The Right to Privacy 5

    The Right to Privacy   Although the courts have asserted that they rested their decisions on the narrow grounds of protection to property, yet there are recognitions of a more liberal doctrine. Thus in the case of Prince Albert v. Strange, already referred to, the opinions both of the Vice-Chancellor and of the Lord Chancellor,…

  • The Right to Privacy 4

    The Right to Privacy   It is not, however, necessary, in order to sustain the view that the Common law recognizes and upholds a principle applicable to cases of invasion of privacy, to invoke the analogy, which is but superficial, to injuries sustained, either by an attack upon reputation or by what the civilians called…