April 24th, 2008

Court Rules Web Users Have Expectation of Privacy

Wendy Davis, Media Post

A court ruling in New Jersey this week stating that Web users have an expectation of privacy in their Internet activity and IP addresses is being viewed as a new milestone in the effort to define what constitutes personal information.

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The ruling seems to signal that the court is concerned about privacy erosion in a society where data is increasingly stored digitally. Lee Tien, a lawyer with the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the holding a "harbinger of a trend" toward protecting online privacy. That organization, along with the ACLU, Electronic Privacy Information Center and others, filed a friend of the court brief in the case.

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