Privacy Torts: Unreliable Remedies for LGBT Plaintiffs
In: California Law Review, Volume 98, Issue 6, p. 1711
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In: California Law Review, Volume 98, Issue 6, p. 1711
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In: Supreme Court Law Review, Volume 84(2d), p. 225-267
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In: Fordham Law Review, Volume 81, p. 1187
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In: (2020) 94 Australian Law Journal 765
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In: Law Liberty, Legislation: Essays in Honour of Joh Burrows QC, J. Finn and S. Todd (eds) (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2008) pp. 231-247
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In: University of New South Wales Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 2
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In: (2014) 42 Australian Business Law Review 403-405
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In: 127 Yale L.J. Forum 614 (2018)
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In: Buffalo Law Review Vol. 68, No. 1, 2020
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In: 33 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 359 (2017)
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In: California Law Review, Volume 98, p. 1925
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In: Northwestern University Law Review, Volume 98
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In: Giliker , P 2015 , ' A common law tort of privacy? The challenges of developing a human rights tort ' , Singapore Academy of Law Journal , vol. 27 , pp. 761-788 .
This article will examine the evolution of a new tort – that of misuse of private information – in the courts of England and Wales. Stimulated by the introduction of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), the English courts are moving towards recognition of a distinct tort which is capable of responding to advances in technology which give rise to increased possibilities for intrusion into the personal lives of private individuals. While such a development may seem preferable to the previous practice of "shoehorning" claims into the existing action for breach of confidence, this article will consider, with reference to recent case law in New Zealand and the Canadian province of Ontario, the challenges which recognition of torts protecting privacy rights present to traditional common law reasoning. In particular, it will examine the extent to which the constitutional framework in each jurisdiction, which provides for protection of a right to privacy and freedom of expression, has led to different responses. Developing a privacy tort is no easy task, both in defining the interest protected and determining its scope and appropriate remedial framework. In analysing how the courts have addressed these issues, the article will consider whether incremental case law development or legislative intervention is more likely to lead to the coherent evolution of this area of law.
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Tort law is often seen as a tool for protecting privacy. But tort law can also diminish privacy, by pressuring defendants to gather sensitive information about people, to install comprehensive surveillance, and to disclose information. And the pressure is growing, as technology makes surveillance and other information gathering more cost effective and thus more likely to be seen as part of defendants' duty to take "reasonable care." Moreover, these tort law rules can increase government surveillance power, and not just surveillance by private entities. Among other things, the NSA PRISM story shows how easily a surveillance database in private hands can become a surveillance database in government hands. This Article aims to provide a legal map of how tort law can diminish privacy, and to discuss which legal institutions-juries, judges, or legislatures-should resolve the privacy-versus-safety questions that routinely arise within tort law.
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