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On March 12, 2007, Viacom sued YouTube, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works". [4]
"Expectation of privacy," similar to the "right to privacy," is a phrase that describes the natural desire of humans to maintain their sense of privacy.There is currently no legal definition in the American law that explicitly grants humans the right to privacy. [1]
The reasonable expectation of privacy has been extended to include the totality of a person's movements captured by tracking their cellphone. [24] Generally, a person loses the expectation of privacy when they disclose information to a third party, [25] including circumstances involving telecommunications. [26]
In Kansas, for example, a private school teacher is being charged under outdated breach of privacy law for recording over 100 female students in a state of undress over a period of 5 years. [123] The Kansas law includes the word "telegraph", a service whose main provider ceased offering the service in 2006.
Communication privacy management (CPM), originally known as communication boundary management, is a systematic research theory developed by Sandra Petronio in 1991. CPM theory aims to develop an evidence-based understanding of the way people make decisions about revealing and concealing private information.
A person seeks an optimal level of privacy (i.e. desired level equals to actual level).There are possibilities of too much or too little privacy. When there is too much privacy (actual desired level), a person may engage in crowding. On the other hand, when there is too little privacy (desired > actual level), a person may prefer social isolation.
The level of privacy is dependent on where else the pseudonym is used, and what personal information has been provided on-wiki or on the other sites. Even if it may not lead directly to a real life identity, other activities may be identified or a profile gradually constructed.
The lawsuit claimed that the district's use of the webcams violated the United States Constitution's guarantees of privacy of the students and their families and friends at home, as well as Pennsylvania common law (expectation of privacy) and Section 1983 of the U.S. Civil Rights Act (right to privacy).