The Right to Information Data Privacy on the Internet
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Dai Raymond
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This paper examines why individuals lack data privacy on the Internet, and it does so by exploring the ways in which constitutional and statute law fail to provide adequate privacy protections—even when rights to privacy are intended. As the author argues, there are “three main reasons for the scarcity of Internet data privacy: first, the law lacks a sufficient definition of data privacy. Second, existing laws and statutes regarding the right to data privacy have inherent flaws and loopholes. Third, the modern era of web design is inconvenient for users and leads to an unfair engagement of contracts, which in turn, gives users little choice but to expose their data to third parties.
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