[Un]Safe Harbor: No Common Denominator In Privacy Compliance

Authors

• Steven A. Wells
• Mark Courtney
• Peter Vogel

Abstract

Privacy is a social issue that varies depending on the mores of any particular culture. Clearly there have always been personal privacy issues before the advent of the Internet. However, the Internet has provided widespread proliferation of personal data which has dramatically changed the scope of where personal data may be. It was not really until about 1995 that the Internet brought this wide-spread change caused by ubiquitous growth of personal computers, online networks, graphical browsers, and broadband communications. Since it is impossible to accurately predict the ultimate direction of personal privacy on the Internet, governments around the world are trying to cope with the current state of the art. We discuss a number of particular privacy issues confronting personal privacy as things stand on the Internet today.

Recommended Citation

Steven A. Wells et al., [Un]Safe Harbor: No Common Denominator In Privacy Compliance, 9 Computer L. Rev. & Tech. J. 257 (2004)