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  2. Post-mortem privacy - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem privacy is a person's ability to control the dissemination of personal information after death. An individual's reputation and dignity after death is also subject to post-mortem privacy protections. [1] In the US, no federal laws specifically extend post-mortem privacy protection.

  3. Code of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Title page to the Code of 1819, formally titled The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia. The Code of Virginia is the statutory law of the U.S. state of Virginia and consists of the codified legislation of the Virginia General Assembly. The 1950 Code of Virginia is the revision currently in force.

  4. Privacy laws of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Judith Wagner DeCew stated, "Pavesich was the first case to recognize privacy as a right in tort law by invoking natural law, common law, and constitutional values." [ 7 ] Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis , partners in a new law firm, feared that this new small camera technology would be used by the "sensationalistic press."

  5. Capital punishment in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, and the first southern state in United States history to do so. [1] [2]

  6. Seung-Hui Cho - Wikipedia

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    The report concluded that the school's mental health systems "failed for lack of resources, incorrect interpretation of privacy laws, and passivity." [18] The report called Virginia's mental health laws "flawed" and its mental health services "inadequate". The report also confirmed that Cho was able to purchase two guns in violation of federal ...

  7. State privacy laws of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Historically, state laws on privacy date back before the founding of the United States and most authorities left protection of personal information to the individual. However, after the creation of a national economy as a result of the Civil War, governmental agencies were created to recommend stronger privacy protections.

  8. Law of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The law of Virginia consists of several levels of legal rules, including constitutional, statutory, regulatory, case law, and local laws. The Code of Virginia contains the codified legislation that define the general statutory laws for the Commonwealth.

  9. Right to be forgotten - Wikipedia

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    The right to be forgotten (RTBF [1]) is the right to have private information about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories in some circumstances. . The issue has arisen from desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the pa