The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: does the answer to the Internet information privacy problem lie in a fifteen-year-old federal statute? A detailed analysis
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Title 2 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act would prevent electronic commerce entities from disclosing records of customers' communications to the government. However, the law contains a loophole under which such records could be sold to the private sector. Amending this portion of the law would allow for adequate Internet privacy protection.
Publication Name: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law
Subject: Library and information science
ISSN: 1078-4128
Year: 2001
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Self-prescribing medication: regulating prescription drug sales on the Internet
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The sale of prescription drugs over the Internet is under-regulated with insufficient consumer safeguards. Congress should create a body of experts which could centralize regulation of online pharmacies and provide greater consumer protection.
Publication Name: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law
Subject: Library and information science
ISSN: 1078-4128
Year: 2001
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The postman always rings 4,000 times: new approaches to curb spam
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This article examines attempts to prevent Internet users from "Spam" or unsolicited commercial email. It discusses how the commercial speech doctrine relates to this issue, as well as reviewing several proposed legal solutions to the problem.
Publication Name: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law
Subject: Library and information science
ISSN: 1078-4128
Year: 2000
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