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The Constitution of the United States and the United States Bill of Rights do not explicitly include a right to privacy, no federal law takes a holistic approach to privacy legislation, and the US has no national data protection authority. [1]
Introduced in the Senate as S. 3418 by Samuel Ervin Jr. (D–NC) on May 1, 1974; Committee consideration by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Passed the Senate on November 21, 1974 ()
The early years in the development of privacy rights began with English common law, protecting "only the physical interference of life and property". [5] The Castle doctrine analogizes a person's home to their castle – a site that is private and should not be accessible without permission of the owner.
Westin earned a BA from the University of Florida in 1948 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1951. Westin's research at Columbia University in the 1960s is widely seen as the first significant work on the problem of consumer data privacy and data protection.
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A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data. [1]
The book, written for a general audience, includes some material that had been adapted by law review articles written by Solove. Raymond G. Kessler wrote in the Law and Politics Book Review that "the average reader may find some discussions of the law difficult to follow." [1] The book has twenty one chapters in four parts. [1]
Section 101; Amends the federal criminal code to add intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to the definition of racketeering activity.. Section 102; Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to five years for intentionally and willfully concealing a security breach involving sensitive personally identifiable information that causes economic damage to one or more persons.