The internet age
presents serious substantive challenges to protecting informational privacy
rights and the dignitary interests protected by the law of defamation. This program explores common law,
statutory, and comparative perspectives on the possibility of civil recovery
for harmful privacy invasions and defamatory communications via the internet.
Is the internet, the predominate modern medium of communication, an instantaneous,
universal, and permanent informational forum, the natural foe of personal
privacy rights and human dignity? We discuss this broad question and its
application to specific "thorny" issues with a panel of distinguished
privacy scholars.
Business meeting at program conclusion.