Summary: | The importance of the violation of data privacy is due to technological developments
and possibility of more violation of privacy. Civil liability of violating data privacy
is more complicated than civil liability of evading other subjects of privacy such as
corporeal or physical privacy, locative privacy and communications privacy. This
article, despite other subjects, discusses exploitation of the issue and annihilation of
data privacy. Some lawyers believe in ownership of data privacy. These two issues
(annihilation of data privacy and considering data privacy as property), turn the
direction of discussions about civil liability of evading data privacy.The present paper
represents the concept of data privacy and discusses the three bases of civil liability
of violating data privacy. In addition, ownership theories and annihilation of data
privacy and also the effect of these two issues on civil liability of violating data
privacy will be investigated. Finally, we study data privacy torts, civil wrongs which
cause civil liability of data privacy violation.
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