By allowing unparalleled opportunities to publish and find anonymous posting, the Internet has reduced societal expectations of individual privacy. Web logs (blogs), social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter) and news sites when accessible via search engines (Google) and other Internet data mining applications, affords the public astounding access to previously inaccessible information about others, with unprecedented speed and accuracy. By doing so, the Internet is changing society’s expectation of privacy and thereby reducing what is an actionable privacy violation.
As the legal concept of privacy in the United States evolves, so does the set of transactions which give rise to actionable privacy violations. The implementation of technology to improve American’s standard of living by improving access to information has created a series of records related to nearly every facet of a person’s life. In particular, Americans have come to expect that both their ability to avoiding disclosure of private information, such as the current value of their home, and private decisions, such as to which politician they donated have diminished.
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