At the dawn of the Internet era in 1999, Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously declared, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” Arguably, the events and technological advances of the last decade may have proven him right. Certainly many of the nearly one billion users of Facebook are comfortable with a level of privacy about themselves that is very close to zero.

It would be a mistake, however, for attorneys in California to assume that privacy is in fact dead.

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