Internet Privacy Law A.B

1) Author: Timothy J. Walton 2) Title: Internet Privacy Law 3) Publication Date: August 20, 1999 4) Format: web 5) Date Accessed: April 10th, 2011 Timothy starts this with an introduction paragraph explaing the reasons to why some people sometimes want internet privacy. He states that some internet criminals use this so called "Privacy" to their advantage. he then asks a question to why we or some people want to have privacy? some people that are annonymoouse on the internet harass others and abuse them all due to being annonymouse while surfing. He then states that there are not written down laws or any constitutions about internet privacy but instead laws made the governement in charge. So look around and do research because each state and each country may have a different law or rule concerning internet privacy. Quotes: 1) "Nowhere does the text of the United States Constitution contain the word "privacy." The Supreme Court has found the concept of "privacy" to be protected by a number of the Amendments.Thus, privacy is known as a "penumbra right." It is the essence of the Bill of Rights and thus a guaranteed right"

Internet Communication Privacy Rights A.B

1)Author: Jonathan Bick 2) Title: INTERNET COMMUNICATION PRIVACY RIGHTS 3)Publisher: New Jersey Law Journal 4) Publication Date: March 16, 2009 5) Format: Web 6)Date of access: April 10th, 2011 In this journal jonathan bick shows and tells us exactly what happens on the internet. he first starts by telling is we have rights of privacy on the internet or not. As clearly seen, yes we do. it's not that the word pricave is written in the constitution but the fourth amendment does say that we are protected against unlawfull intrusions in or any intrusions without a reasonable cause. Therefor yes he believes strongly in internet privacy and that we sshould be protected at all times. Bick wrote this journal article to make people aware of their privacy rights on the internet and on the web. He demonstrates many examples from the contitution that dont exactly have the word privacy in them but rather protection against unlawfull intrusions. The writer in this journal article is clearly trying to get across one clear message, and that is all of should be protected while surfing the web and while using the internet. As writen we all should speak against any violation of our rights on the internet. - This source answers many of my research questions. The first is, if we have any rights while on the internet. The answer is clear as day and yes we do as stated in the constitution. Another question answered is what our role is on the internet? The answer is that we are considered a thirs party. Which means we help move information around the web by having sites and similar things. Quotations: 1) "Just as there is no explicit constitutional right to privacy, there is no general privacy statute which requires electronic records held by third parties to keep such records private. Rather, the protection of such electronic records may be found due to a particular set of facts. Two approaches to Fourth Amendment privacy protection are generally used. One approach equated unlawful requests for information with unlawful search and seizure".

Moral Absolutism Pros & Cons

Many people probably have not heard about moral absolutism. This is the principle where “… absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged—suggest that morals are not determined by societal or situational influences. According to moral absolutism, morals are inherent in the laws of the universe, the nature of humanity, or some other fundamental source”. There are many good ideas in this philosophy, starting with the well being of a person/human being. Most of the time this would help out and be on the side of the law. The law is always thought to be fair and on the side of humans. With the philosophy of Absolutism the law would always be protective and on the well being of individuals.

There is however a bad side to this philosophy and that is who decides what’s good for the individual? Some people that live in deserted areas don’t know about laws from other places. Which means that what they think is right can be wrong in so many ways. Some ideas like killing the daughter if she got raped might be thought of to be the best for a girl, but that is to the culture that the family lives in.

Moral Univeresalism Pros & Cons

Moral Universalism is kind of the same but also different than absolutism. This philosophy agrees with the ideas of James Rachels. In this philosophy things have to be looked at from the point of the culture itself. Meaning that only people from America can judge Americans and their actions. You can not really have a Middle Eastern person judge an Asian culture based person. This is because people are taught to think if something is right or wrong based on what they have experienced their whole life. This means that the law can and will protect wrong actions in a culture even though if this action is wrong to other cultures.

This philosophy can be wrong in one way really. This means that if an American person went to a middle eastern country they can have a hard time. This is because they would do what they know is normally right but in the middle east it is wrong. For example here in the united states it is okay for a man to hug a woman as a way for greeting. If this was done in the middle east this could cost a person their life depending on how strict the person is.