General Family Law

Assisted living can be trying. There are many emotional challenges to overcome and daily obstacles to surmount. Knowing what your rights are or what the rights of an aging family member's are is...

Contrary to popular belief, email communications are about as private as the love lives of famous celebrities. In fact, every email you send can be read before reaching its destination. Your email...

For the most part, electronic and digital communications providers strive to protect the legal privacy rights of their subscribers. However, email and cell-phone communications are not entirely...

Privacy laws pertaining to the workplace are vague and fall under the rights to privacy that individuals are granted under the Privacy Act. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act covers...

Privacy laws protect the privacy rights of individuals. Some privacy laws are general privacy laws which can affect all aspects of collecting personal information. Others are specific laws which...

Individual privacy has traditionally been guarded by a number of rules and regulations. The Privacy Act concerns how business and government entities can share and allow you to access your...

Garbage sitting out to be collected often contains personal information and objects, which makes it a venue where privacy rights are considered. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in the 1988 case...

Journalistic protection privacy laws are meant to consider the right of news reporters to obtain the news without government interference. Journalistic privacy laws are supported federally by the...

The privacy rights of minors are protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act laws. The privacy rule under HIPAA...

Online privacy rights are granted to individuals through The Privacy Act of 1974 and are more particularly addressed in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984. There are many privacy violations...

The privacy of your personal health information is protected under HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This federal law grants individuals certain rights pertaining to...

Certain personal records are protected under the Privacy Act. The Federal Trade Commission works to enforce Privacy Act protections, but violations are often easier to avoid than to penalize....

The Privacy Act of 1974 gives individuals the right to access personal information collected by the federal government's Executive Branch. The law also states that people have the right to amend...

Invasion of privacy is a violation we are protected against by the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects several aspects of privacy. Citizens are protected against unreasonable invasion of...

Laws that govern how individuals can use hidden security cameras vary from state to state. Many people believe that the use of security cameras infringes on an individual's right to privacy....