Reasonable expectations of privacy

  • Authors:
  • Robert L. Mcarthur

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Philosophy, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, USA E-mail: rlmcarth@colby.edu

  • Venue:
  • Ethics and Information Technology
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Use of the concept of `areasonable person and his or her expectations'is widely found in legal reasoning. This legalconstruct is employed in the present article toexamine privacy questions associated withcontemporary information technology, especiallythe internet. In particular, reasonableexpectations of privacy while browsing theworld-wide-web and while sending and receivinge-mail are analyzed.