Internet Privacy FINAL

Many people use the Internet today and everyone will have at least one chance during their lifetime to use the internet or see how it works. The internet is the modern day encyclopedia, dictionary, streaming media like TV- , and much more information just at your finger-tips. These are all great pros about the internet but there still remain some questionable things about it. Do people have privacy rights or any rights while surfing the internet? At this time, there are not laws that protect user privacy, but ideas are being discussed about internet privacy laws that would protect users.

The internet is a large group of interconnected computer networks all over the world. Each person when they log on to the internet they have something almost like a photo I.D or a drivers license. This I.D is called the internet protocol (I.P) address and is shared with the internet provider without your choice. Jonathan Bick an adjunct professor of Internet law at Pace Law School and Rutgers Law School. He is also the author of '101 Things You Need To Know about internet law' [Random House 2000]. Based on his research on the internet privacy laws he has found that once a person signs up with an internet provider they are basically signing over their internet rights over to the provider. Meaning that your I.P address will be traced and many of your activities online are basically being watched. Bick states that “Internet communications necessitates sharing content and data with third parties. The voluntary transfer of such content and related data to third-party Internet communication facilitators reduces or eliminates First, Third, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Internet users". So does this mean that we don’t have any privacy while surfing the internet?

Based on the PRIVACY RIGHTS ON THE INTERNET article many websites have a policy that each person has to read and agree to while on the site. A good example given is the website of E-bay. On the website upon signing up the " … registration process automatically sets the default to "yes," which ensures that unless the readers are fully alert in reading all the details, they would automatically and perhaps inadvertently, agree to have their private information sold or shared with telemarketers and to receive promotional material from eBay. As you have read this what exactly does it mean? This means that you do have some sense or kind of privacy on the internet protected by the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment states that "unlawful requests for information with unlawful search and seizure. The other approach required physical trespass into a zone of privacy". In here there is not really privacy but instead unlawful seizure of information. The word privacy is not used but is hinted out. Once a person agrees to the policy (like selling your information to telemarketers or sharing your information) you are basically signing your rights over to the website you are now on. As soon as a person agrees with to the policy (terms) everything done like how many times your mouse is clicked on a website, surfing history, and anything done on the internet is being shared or given out by their consent.

In the article of ‘Privacy Rights On The Internet: Self-Regulation or Government Regulation?’ how cookies are used is explained and made simpler. One of the internet companies that use cookies is called DoubleClick. Lets’ say for example, DoubleClick has an advertisement on Amazon or eBay once a user double clicks on the advertisement two cookies are put onto the computer. These cookies are sent to advertisers that have product similar to what the user is looking for “Doubleclick is in the business of serving as the middleman between content-rich websites and advertisers seeking to promote their goods to consumers who frequent those sites”. Double click can now match the online user with the advertisers and “advertisers who want to target individual consumers. And advertisers are willing to pay DoubleClick for it”.

Bick reviewed a 1999 federal commission trade policy and thinks it should be taken into consideration as an internet privacy law also. "Notice/awareness… Choice/consent… Access/Participation… Integrity/Security… ". The first part of this is the notice and awareness which basically explains the information use and has a disclosure of infonnation practices. In this new to be law the second part would be the consent of the user. This is to give the user the choice to sell their information for benefits so they would also be wining. The third part of the idea is to is necessary when information is being aggregated from multiple sources. The fourth and one of the most important ideas is the security having each person's information secure from theft or tampering. The last idea to be discussed in this new to be law is providing a mechanism to ensure compliance. All these new ideas would be ideal for a new internet privacy law.

Based on internet privacy and state having internet privacy is kind of a two way thing. To have privacy “data privacy must be constructed" around the “…primacy of individual responsibility and nongovernmental action." This is basically saying that each person kind of protects their own privacy. Meaning that our privacy is within our own control. Later in the article it says it more clearly and explains it a lot more. "Despite the belief that cyberspace is a "fiction free" medium, pervasive restrictions exist in it regarding freedom of choice regarding information privacy. Yet, for self-reliant consent to fulfill its assigned role for shaping privacy, individuals must be able to choose between different possibilities-and significant reasons exist for doubt on this score." What exactly does this mean? This is simply saying that the internet users give up the internet privacy by choice. It is not that anyone is forcing them to give up their privacy but they willingly give it up just to be on the internet.

Some people are unhappy about not having internet privacy, but the matter of fact is that we do have internet privacy. It is just not favored by the providing internet companies. The basic default settings from the internet companies disfavor the idea of privacy. This is because they make an enormous amount of money by selling this information. In the article of Internet privacy and state it is stated that the best way to completely leave the internet. "Yet, industry standard setting largely disfavors privacy at present." Internet companies largely benefit from developing standards, including new software, which preserves the current status quo of maximum information disclosure. Once the online industry is able to "lock-in" a poor level of privacy on the web as the dominant practice, individuals may not have effective recourse to other practices. "They can protest, but collective action problems on the internet, as I have suggested above, are widespread. Moreover, there is no where else to go==except to leave cyberspace".

So let's review all the evidence once more to make everything clear. Is there any internet privacy? No not exactly, there is internet privacy but not a specific law for internet privacy. Meaning that the fourth amendment of the constitution does not allow for seizure of information; the words from the constitution "unlawful requests for information with unlawful search and seizure”. The other approach required physical trespass into a zone of privacy. By this quote everyone does have a sense of privacy provided by the constitution. But does this mean that internet users have privacy? No, because once a person signs up with an internet provider this means that they are signing over their rights to the internet provider. After all the evidence is only leading towards one way. That is that we do not have cyberspace (internet) privacy. The only way to have privacy is to completely leave cyberspace. Many will ask but is there anything being done about this enormous problem? Yes, law makers and internet privacy supporters are now considering making a new law. The 1999 Federal Commission Policy is being reviewed as a possible new internet privacy law.

Citation

1) Jamal, Karim, and Norman E. Bowie. "PRIVACY RIGHTS ON THE INTERNET: SELF-REGULATION OR GOVERNMENT REGULATION?" EBSCohost. July 2006. Web. 13 Apr. 2011. .

2) Schwartz, Paul M. "Internet Privacy and State." 32 Connecticut Law Review. HEINONLINE, 1999-2000. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. .

3) Walton, Timothy J. "Internet Privacy Law." Internet Attorney. 20 Aug. 1999. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. .

4) Bick , Jonathan. "INTERNET COMMUNICATION PRIVACY RIGHTS." Bicklaw.com. 16 Mar. 2009. Web. 08 May 2011. .

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Internet Privacy

Many people use the Internet today and everyone will have at least one chance during their lifetime to use the internet or see how it works. The internet is the modern day encyclopedia, dictionary, streaming media like TV- , and much more information just at your finger-tips. These are all great pros about the internet but there still remain some questionable things about it. Do people have privacy rights or any rights while surfing the internet? At this time, there are not laws that protect user privacy, but ideas are being discussed about internet privacy laws that would protect users.

The internet is a large group of interconnected computer networks all over the world. Each person when they log on to the internet they have something almost like a photo I.D or a drivers license. This I.D is called the internet protocol (I.P) address and is shared with the internet provider without your choice. Jonathan Bick an adjunct professor of Internet law at Pace Law School and Rutgers Law School. He is also the author of '101 Things You Need To Know about internet law' [Random House 2000]. Based on his research on the internet privacy laws he has found that once a person signs up with an internet provider they are basically signing over their internet rights over to the provider. Meaning that your I.P address will be traced and many of your activities online are basically being watched. Bick states that " Internet communications necessitates sharing content and data with third parties. The voluntary transfer of such content and related data to third-party Internet communication facilitators reduces or eliminates First, Third, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Internet users". So does this mean that we don’t have any privacy while surfing the internet?

Based on the PRIVACY RIGHTS ON THE INTERNET article many websites have a policy that each person has to read and agree to while on the site. A good example given is the website of E-bay. On the website upon signing up the " … registration process automatically sets the default to "yes," which ensures that unless the readers are fully alert in reading all the details, they would automatically and perhaps inadvertently, agree to have their private information sold or shared with telemarketers and to receive promotional material from eBay. As you have read this what exactly does it mean? This means that you do have some sense or kind of privacy on the internet protected by the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment states that "unlawful requests for information with unlawful search and seizure. The other approach required physical trespass into a zone of privacy". In here there is not really privacy but instead unlawful seizure of information. The word privacy is not used but is hinted out. Once a person agrees to the policy (like selling your information to telemarketers or sharing your information) you are basically signing your rights over to the website you are now on. As soon as a person agrees with to the policy(terms) everything done like how many times your mouse is clicked on a website, surfing history, and anything done on the internet is being shared or given out by their consent.

Bick reviewed a 1999 federal commission trade policy and thinks it should be taken into consideration as an internet privacy law also. "Notice/awareness… Choice/consent… Access/Participation… Integrity/Security… ". The first part of this is the notice and awareness which basically explains the information use and has a disclosure of infonnation practices. In this new to be law the second part would be the consent of the user. This is to give the user the choice to sell their information for benefits so they would also be wining. The third part of the idea is to is necessary when information is being aggregated from multiple sources. The fourth and one of the most important ideas is the security having each person's information secure from theft or tampering. The last idea to be discussed in this new to be law is providing a mechanism to ensure compliance. All these new ideas would be ideal for a new internet privacy law.

Based on internet privacy and state having internet privacy is kind of a two way thing. To have privacy " data privacy must be constructed" around the " …primacy of individual responsibility and nongovernmental action." This is basically saying that each person kind of protects their own privacy. Meaning that our privacy is within our own control. Later in the article it says it more clearly and explains it a lot more. "Despite the belief that cyberspace is a "fiction free" medium, pervasive restrictions exist in it regarding freedom of choice regarding information privacy. Yet, for self-reliant consent to fulfill its assigned role for shaping privacy, individuals must be able to choose between different possibilities-and significant reasons exist for doubt on this score." What exactly does this mean? This is simply saying that the internet users give up the internet privacy by choice. It is not that anyone is forcing them to give up their privacy but they willingly give it up just to be on the internet.

Some people are unhappy about not having internet privacy, but the matter of fact is that we do have internet privacy. It is just not favored by the providing internet companies. The basic default settings from the internet companies disfavor the idea of privacy. This is because they make an enormous amount of money by selling this information. In the article of Internet privacy and state it is stated that the best way to completely leave the internet. "Yet, industry standard setting largely disfavors privacy at present." Internet companies largely benefit from developing standards, including new software, which preserves the current status quo of maximum information disclosure. Once the online industry is able to "lock-in" a poor level of privacy on the web as the dominant practice, individuals may not have effective recourse to other practices. "They can protest, but collective action problems on the internet, as I have suggested above, are widespread. Moreover, there is no where else to go₌₌except to leave cyberspace".

So let's review all the evidence once more to make everything clear. Is there any internet privacy? No not exactly, there is internet privacy but not a specific law for internet privacy. Meaning that the fourth amendment of the constitution does not allow for seizure of information. The words from the constitution "unlawful requests for information with unlawful search and seizure. The other approach required physical trespass into a zone of privacy". By this quote everyone does have a sense of privacy provided by the constitution. But does this mean that internet users have privacy? No, because once a person signs up with an internet provider this means that they are signing over their rights to the internet provider. After all the evidence is only leading towards one way. That is that we do not have cyberspace (internet) privacy. The only way to have privacy is to completely leave cyberspace. Many will ask but is there anything being done about this enormous problem? Yes law makers and internet privacy supporters are now considering making a new law. The 1999 Federal Commission Policy is being reviewed as a possible new internet privacy law.

Internet Privacy

Internet Privacy

Many people use the Internet today and everyone will have at least one chance during a lifetime to use the internet or see how it works. The internet is the modern day encyclopedia, dictionary, streaming media like TV­­, and much more information just at the touch of your finger-tips. These are all great pros about the internet but there still remain a couple of questionable things about it. Do people have privacy rights or any rights while surfing the internet? A couple of questions must first be answered and they are how does it work, and do we have any privacy rights that we can claim to while surfing the internet.

Now a days’ the internet is the absolute most important thing in the world LITERALLY. Without the internet there would be no phones, communication, and almost life would come to a complete stop. So what exactly is the internet and how does it work? The internet is a large group of interconnected computer networks all over the world. Each person when they log on to the internet they have something almost like a photo I.D. or a drivers license. This I.D is called the Internet Protocol(I.P) address is basically shared with the internet company provider without your choice. Jonathan Bick is an adjunct professor of Internet law at Pace Law School and Rutgers Law School. He is also the author of '101 Things You Need To Know about Internet Law' [Random House 2000]. Based on his research on the internet privacy laws he has found out that once a person signs up with an internet provider they are basically signing over their internet right over to the provider. Meaning that your I.P address will be traced and many of your activities online are basically being watched. Bick says states that “Internet communications necessitates sharing content and data with third parties. The voluntary transfer of such content and related data to third-party Internet communication facilitators reduces or eliminates First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Internet users”. So does this mean that we don’t have any privacy while surfing the internet.

So what does Bick think is a good way to start a privacy policy online or an internet privacy law? Bick reviewed a 1999 federal commission trade policy and thinks it should be taken also as an internet privacy policy. " 1. Notice/awareness: covers the disclosure of infonnation practices, including a comprehensive statement of information use; 2. Choice/consent: includes both opt-out and opt-in options and allows the consumers the choice to trade information for benefits, depending on the

value consumers place on the benefits; 3. Access/participation allows for confirmation of the accuracy of information; necessary when information is aggregated from multiple sources; 4. Integrity/security: controls for theft or tampering; and 5. Enforcement/redress: provides a mechanism to ensure compliance; this mechanism is an important credibility cue for online companies, but is extremely difficult to accomplish effectively". With this idea in place this would probably be the most effective

Based on the PRIVACY RIGHTS ON THE INTERNET article many websites have a policy that each person has to read and agree to while on the site. A good example given is the website of E-Bay. On the website upon signing up the “…registration process automatically sets the default to "yes," which ensures

that unless the readers are fully alert in reading all the details, they would automatically and perhaps inadvertently, agree to have their private information sold or shared with telemarketers and to receive promotional material from eBay. As you have read this what exactly does it mean? This means that you do have some sense or kind of privacy on the internet protected by the fourth amendment but once you agree to the policy you are basically signing those rights over to the website you are on. Once a person does that, their surfing history, clicks, and anything they have done is being shared or given out and all by their consent.

So what a good way to start a privacy policy online or an internet privacy law? A reviewed 1999 federal commission trade policy should be taken also as an internet privacy policy. " 1. Notice/awareness: covers the disclosure of infonnation practices, including a comprehensive statement of information use; 2. Choice/consent: includes both opt-out and opt-in options and allows the consumers the choice to trade information for benefits, depending on the

value consumers place on the benefits; 3. Access/participation allows for confirmation of the accuracy of information; necessary when information is aggregated from multiple sources; 4. Integrity/security: controls for theft or tampering; and 5. Enforcement/redress: provides a mechanism to ensure compliance; this mechanism is an important credibility cue for online companies, but is extremely difficult to accomplish effectively". With this idea in place this would probably be the most effective.

Based on the Internet Privacy and State having internet Privacy is kind of a two way thing. To have privacy "data privacy must be constructed around “the primacy of individual responsibility and nongovernmental action.” This is basically saying that each person kind of protects their own privacy. Meaning that our privacy falls within our control. Later in the article it says it more clearly and explains it more clearly " Despite the belief that cyberspace is a “friction free” medium, pervasive

restrictions exist in it regarding freedom of choice regarding information

privacy. Yet, for self-reliant consent to fulfill its assigned role for shaping privacy, individuals must be able to choose between different possibilities—and significant reasons exist for doubt on this score". Some people are unhappy about not having internet privacy, but the matter of fact is that we do have internet privacy but it is just not favored by the providing internet companies. The basic default settings from the internet companies disfavor the idea of privacy. This is because they make an enormous amount of money by selling this information. In the article of Internet Privacy and state it is stated that the best way to have privacy is to completely leave the cyberspace " Yet, industry standard setting largely disfavors privacy at present.

Internet companies generally benefit from developing standards, including

new software, that preserve the current status quo of maximum

information disclosure.32 Once online industry is able to “lock-in” a poor

level of privacy on the Web as the dominant practice, individuals may not

have effective recourse to other practices. They can protest, but collective

action problems on the Internet, as I have suggested above, are widespread.

Moreover, there is nowhere else to go—except to leave cyberspace".

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Internet Privacy

Many people use the Internet today and everyone will have at least one chance during a lifetime to use the internet or see how it works. The internet is the modern day encyclopedia, dictionary, streaming media like TV­­, and much more information just at the touch of your­ of your finger-tip. These are all great pros about the internet but there still remains a couple of questionable things about it. Do people have privacy rights or any rights while surfing the internet? A couple of questions must first be answered and they are how does it work, and do we have any privacy rights that we can claim to while surfing the internet?

Now a days’ the internet is the absolute most important thing in the world LITERALLY. Without the internet there would be no phones, communication, and almost life would come to a complete stop. So what exactly is the internet and how does it work? The internet is a large group of interconnected computer networks all over the world. Each person when they log on to the internet they have something almost like a photo I.D. or a drivers license. This I.D is called the Internet Protocol(I.P) address is basically shared with the internet company provider without your choice. Jonathan Bick a is an adjunct professor of Internet law at Pace Law School and Rutgers Law School. He is also the author of '101 Things You Need To Know about Internet Law' [Random House 2000]. Based on his research on the internet privacy laws he has found out that once a person signs up with an internet provider they are basically signing over their internet right over to the provider. Meaning that your I.P address will be traced and many of your activities online are basically being watched. Bick says states that “Internet communications necessitates sharing content and data with third parties. The voluntary transfer of such content and related data to third-party Internet communication facilitators reduces or eliminates First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Internet users”. So does this mean that we don’t have any privacy while surfing the internet?

Based on the PRIVACY RIGHTS ON THE INTERNET article that many websites have a policy that each person has to read and agree to while on the site. A good example given is the website of E-Bay. On the website upon signing up the “…registration process automatically sets the default to "yes," which ensures

that unless the readers are fully alert in reading all the details, they would automatically,

and perhaps inadvertently, agree to have their private information sold or shared

with telemarketers and to receive promotional material from eBay. As you have read this what exactly does it mean? This means that you do have some sense or kind of privacy on the internet protected by the fourth amendment but once you agree to the policy you are basically signing those rights over to the website you are on. Once a person does that their surfing history, clicks, and anything they have done is being shared or given out and all by their consent.

Areas of Discussion

1)is there legal internet privacy?
- all the sources have concluded that no there is not really internet privacy. It is just the fourth amendment from the constitution that has hints about privacy when saying unlawful seizure of information.
2) Is privacy actually a problem that people actually worry about?
- yes, in-fact many surveys done say that over 60% of the people surfing the internet worry about their privacy and what information about them is going out and being taken without their knowledge.
3) does it matter whether these people have internet privacy or not when using the internet? and would it stop them from using the internet?
- of course it does matter people have important information on their computers whether it is credit cards, bills, or even family things that are not meant to be shared.
- the second point is would they stop using the internet if there is not really a law protecting their privacy while surfing the internet. Based on the PRIVACY RIGHTS ON THE INTERNET: SELF-REGULATION OR GOVERNMENT REGULATION article people would not stop using the internet but instead will be just a little bit more careful and try to be more educated about surfing the internet

Circles of Evidence

Internet Privacy has been a great argued issue by internet users. Internet privacy is the most important problem people discuss when talking about the internet. So the big question do we really have internet privacy? Well, no not really and all of my sources concluded so. There is not really a law that specifically talks about privacy or even a law made for privacy but there is however one possible point made by the constitution. in the fourth amendment it states that " unlawful requests for information with unlawful search and seizure. The other approach required physical trespass into a zone of privacy". in here there is not really privacy but instead unlawful seizure of information. The word privacy is not used but is hinted out. Three of my four sources states that to have privacy on the internet a person must first be educated on how to use and navigate the internet safely. For instance using the new Internet Explorer 6 browser which in the default settings of the browser it does not accept third party cookies which is one of the ways our privacy and unlawful seizure of information is taken. knowing which websites to enter and which websites not to enter for your safety is a great way to protect your privacy. Also e-mails are a great way that people might be tricked into giving out personnel information like social security number, credit card numbers, and personal information. The best way to keep your privacy as seen in these sources is to not open any e-mail you don't know. If you did not expect an e-mail from your bank for instance know that it is a scam. Unless you were expecting an e-mail from that person or place do not open it, as some of them may inject trojans and cookies on to your computer. The main claim that i have reached from all these four sources is that we do have privacy but we are the ones that control it and control how much of our information is given out.

Internet Privacy and State

SECION1: Schwartz, Paul M. "Internet Privacy and the State." HEINONLINE. 1999-2000. Web. 13 Apr. 2011. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/conlr32&div=34&id=&page=. SECTION2: In this article the writer speaks about privacy on the internet and whether it is something that is there or not. he first starts speaking about the market privacy and the normal privacy. He explains that there is a great difference between market privacy and what should be called the normal privacy. Some information that if let out to the market would not harm or hurt the person and secondly is the normal privacy which is privacy that all people acquire. This is information about your personal life, bills, credit card numbers etc.. This article relates to my paper in a great way. First it is speaking about the different kind of privacy's a person has while surfing the internet. Secondly it is speaking about how to protect it and who else can help you protect your privacy . A great privacy protector is the state you are living in . Each state has its own rule on the internet. Some states are more stricter than the others. QUOTES: " I seek to characterize information privacy as a constitutive value that helps both to form the society in which we live in and to shape our individual identities"