The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. .
The Constitutional right of privacy has developed alongside a statutory right of privacy which limits access to personal information. The main function of this right is to protect the ability of individuals. Every user of the internet needs to be able to determine what sort of information about them has been used. To uphold the right to one's personality, legal remedies have to be developed to enforce definite boundaries between public and private life. When it comes to the government's use of our information and violating our privacy, the 10th Amendment provides a limitation to their power to do so. 3 .
Most states of the United States also grant a right to privacy and recognize four torts based on that right:.
1. Intrusion upon seclusion or solitude, or into private affairs;.
2. Public disclosure of embarrassing private facts;.
3. Publicity which places a person in a false light in the public eye; and.
4. Appropriation of name or likeness.4.
Copyright and the Copyright Law of the United States.
Copyright can be defined as a law that gives us the ownership over things we create, that is, it protects all kind of intellectual property. It is important to mention that copyright does not protect the original work of authorship extent to any idea. This limitation is known under the name the idea–expression dichotomy. The copyright law of the United States is governed by the federal Copyright Act of 1976. .
Copyright Status of Work by the U.S. Government.
17 U.S.C. § 105 withholds copyright from most publications produced by the United States Government, and its agents or employees while in their employment: .
