By allowing people historically unparalleled opportunities to publish and to find anonymous postings, the Internet has, naturally and logically enough, reduced societal expectations of individual privacy.
The Internet Has Diminished Privacy Expectations and Torts
Blogs, social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter) and news sites, when accessible via search engines (Google) and other Internet data-mining applications, afford the public astounding access to previously inaccessible information about other people, with unprecedented speed and accuracy. By doing so, the Internet is changing society's expectation of privacy and, as a result, reducing the prevalence of what is perceived to be an actionable privacy violation, and actions about and awards for these.
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Jonathan Bick
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