Information Privacy Law: [Connected eBook]

by Daniel J. Solove, Paul M. Schwartz

Overview

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The Seventh Edition of Information Privacy Law has been revised to include the California Consumer Privacy Act, the GDPR, Carpenter, state biometric data laws, and many other new developments. A clear, comprehensive, and cutting-edge introduction to the field of information privacy law, Information Privacy Law contains the latest cases and materials exploring issues of emerging technology and information privacy, and the extensive background information and authorial guidance provide clear and concise introductions to various areas of law.

New to the Seventh Edition:

• Additional Coverage or updates to:
  • California Consumer Privacy Act
  • Carpenter v. United States
  • General Data Protection Regulation
  • State biometric data laws
  • New FTC enforcement actions, including Facebook

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Extensive coverage of FTC privacy enforcement, HIPAA and HHS enforcement, standing in privacy lawsuits, among other topics.
• Chapters devoted exclusively to data security, national security, employment privacy, and education privacy.
• Sections on government surveillance and freedom to explore ideas.
• Extensive coverage of the NSA and the Snowden revelations and the ensuing regulation.
• Engaging approach to complicated laws and regulations such as HIPAA, FCRA, ECPA, GDPR, and CCPA.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543813722
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	11/18/2020
Series:	Aspen Casebook Series
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Pages:	1272
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	xxv
	Acknowledgments	xxix
1	Introduction	1
A	Information Privacy, Technology, and the Law	1
	Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corp.	2
B	Information Privacy Law: Origins and Types	9
1	Common Law	9
2	Constitutional Law	33
3	Statutory Law	35
4	International Law	38
C	Philosophical Perspectives	39
1	The Philosophical Discourse About Privacy	39
2	The Definition and the Value of Privacy	40
3	Critics of Privacy	59
4	The Feminist Perspective on Privacy	67
2	Privacy and the Media	75
A	Information Gathering	76
1	Intrusion upon Seclusion	76
2	Paparazzi	94
3	Video Voyeurism	100
B	Disclosure of Truthful Information	102
1	Public Disclosure of Private Facts	103
2	Disclosure of Illegally Obtained Information	152
C	Dissemination of False or Misleading Information	159
1	Defamation	159
2	False Light	181
3	Infliction of Emotional Distress	185
D	Appropriation of Name or Likeness	188
1	Introduction	188
2	Name or Likeness	191
3	Connection to Matters of Public Interest	197
4	First Amendment Limitations	203
3	Privacy and Law Enforcement	207
A	The Fourth Amendment and Emerging Technology	207
1	Introduction	207
2	Wiretapping, Bugging, and Beyond	214
3	The Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Test and Emerging Technology	232
B	Federal Electronic Surveilliance Law	263
1	Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934	263
2	Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968	264
3	The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986	265
4	The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act	285
5	The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act	288
6	The USA PATRIOT Act	294
C	Intelligence, Terrorism, and National Security	300
1	Is National Security Different?	300
2	FISA and the "Wall"	303
3	The Attorney General's FBI Guidelines	314
4	The Homeland Security Act	317
5	The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act	317
D	Encryption	320
E	Government Computer Searches	323
1	The Scope of Warrants to Search Computers	323
2	ISP Records	326
3	Carnivore	338
4	Key Logging Devices	339
4	Health and Genetic Privacy	345
A	Medical Data and Privacy in the Information Age	346
	Privacy and the Economics of Health Care Information	346
	Health Information Privacy	347
	"Nobody Knows the MIB"	348
B	Confidentiality of Medical Information	350
1	Professional Ethics and Evidentiary Privileges	350
2	Tort Liability for Disclosure of Patient Information	356
3	Tort Liability for Failure to Disclose Patient Information	363
4	Statutory Reporting Requirements	375
5	State Law Privacy Protections for Medical Information	377
6	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act	379
C	Constitutional Protection of Medical Information	394
1	The Constitutional Right to Information Privacy	394
2	The Fourth Amendment	415
D	Genetic Information	421
1	Background: Genetic Privacy	421
2	Property Rights in Body Parts and DNA	422
3	Genetic Testing and Discrimination	436
4	DNA Databases and Identification	441
5	Privacy of Associations, Anonymity, and Identification	451
A	Privacy of Group Associations	453
1	Compelled Disclosure of Group Membership Lists	453
2	Interrogation About Group Associations	456
3	Surveillance of Group Activities	461
B	Anonymity	470
1	Anonymous Speech	470
2	Anonymity in Cyberspace	480
3	Anonymous Reading and Receiving of Ideas	490
4	Anonymity and Copyright	498
C	Identification	504
1	Identification Devices and Techniques	504
2	Identification and the Constitution	506
3	Social Security Numbers	513
4	National Identification Systems	519
6	Privacy and Government Records and Databases	523
A	Public Access to Government Records	524
1	Public Records and Court Records	524
2	The Freedom of Information Act	526
3	Constitutional Requirements of Public Access	542
4	Constitutional Limitations on Public Access	550
B	Government Records of Personal Information	577
1	Fair Information Practices	577
2	The Privacy Act	579
3	The Use of Government Databases	599
4	The Driver's Privacy Protection Act	618
7	Privacy, Business Records, and Financial Information	623
A	The Collection and Use of Personal Data	623
1	Data Collection Techniques and Devices	624
2	The Database Industry	629
3	Perspectives on the Collection and Use of Personal Data	631
B	Regulating Business Records and Databases	636
1	Self-Regulation	636
2	Property and Contract Law	637
3	Technological Solutions	642
4	Tort Law	643
5	Statutory Protections	649
6	First Amendment Limitations on Privacy Regulation	673
C	Spam	693
1	State Anti-Spam Laws	693
2	The Federal CAN-SPAM Act	693
3	Spam and Speech	695
D	Identity Theft	696
1	The Identity Theft Assumption and Deterrence Act	696
2	State Statutory Approaches	697
3	Perspectives on Identity Theft Legislation	698
4	Database Companies, Security Breaches, and Identity Theft	699
E	Financial Information	700
	Financial Privacy and the Theory of High-Tech Government Surveillance	700
1	The Credit System	702
2	The Use and Disclosure of Financial Information	711
F	Government Access to Financial and Business Records	718
1	Information Gathering Without Search Warrants	718
2	Information Gathering with Search Warrants	735
G	Privacy Policies: Private vs. Public Enforcement	739
1	Privacy Policies	739
2	Private Enforcement: Contract Remedies	746
3	Public Enforcement: The FTC	750
8	Privacy and Place	765
A	Privacy at Home	765
	Stanley v. Georgia	766
	Osborne v. Ohio	768
	Wilson v. Layne	772
B	Privacy at School	778
1	School Searches and Surveillance	778
2	Drug Testing	784
3	School Records	794
C	Privacy at Work	798
1	Introduction	798
2	Workplace Searches	801
3	Workplace Surveillance	809
4	Drug Testing	813
5	The Issue of Consent	824
6	Testing, Questionnaires, and Polygraphs	830
7	Employer Monitoring of the Telephone	845
8	Employer Monitoring of Mail, E-mail, and Internet Use	852
9	International Privacy Law	869
A	The Oecd Privacy Guidelines	871
B	The Protection of Privacy in Europe	873
1	Convergence or Divergence?	873
2	European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) Article 8	878
3	The European Union Data Protection Directive	900
C	Privacy Protection in Other Countries	922
1	Canada	922
2	Australia	928
3	Japan	928
4	Argentina	929
D	International Transfers of Data	929
1	International Data Transfers in Litigation	930
2	Adequate Level of Protection Under the EU Directive	933
3	The Safe Harbor Arrangement	936
4	Passenger Name Record Data Transfers	957
5	Outsourcing Information Processing to Other Countries	964
	Table of Cases	969
	Table of Authorities	979
	Index	1001