Do people have any expectation of privacy when they use a service like Chatroulette?
People are usually using the site while sitting in their private residence (home, apartment, dorm, etc). Goldman began by saying that “expectation of privacy” is usually used in reference to a situation between a private citizen and the government. In this situation, he said the term was “distracting.” When looking at online communication between two individuals, courts would be more likely to accept arguments based on one’s right to privacy being violated than one’s expectation of privacy being lost. But Stern said there might be some hints for civil cases by looking at Fourth Amendment cases involving the government and the expectation of privacy. He said the few courts that have ruled on chat room privacy have rejected arguments that users have an expectation of privacy because chat rooms are open to the public and people in chat rooms know that the people with whom they are speaking may be lying about their identity. Finally, Stern said the user’s location would probably be irrelev
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