User:Dreamyshade/Data privacy law
There is a lot of vague, inaccurate, and incomplete information in articles related to U.S. data privacy laws, and there are a lot of overlapping articles with redundant efforts to summarize the same information. Goal is to assess them somewhat holistically and reduce the issues.
Age verification:
- Social media - 2300 views/day
- Identity verification service - 800 views/day; background section is mostly uncited
- Age verification - 330 views/day
- Social media age verification laws in the United States - 134 views/day
- Online age verification laws by country - 47 views/day
General:
- Privacy policy - 700 views/day - criticism section
- Information privacy - 121 views/day
- Digital privacy - 29 views/day
- Email privacy - 22 views/day
- Medical privacy - 14 views/day
- Genetic privacy - 7 views/day
- Automotive privacy - 3 views/day - does this make sense as a standalone article?
- Template:Privacy
High-level law topics:
- Right to privacy - 164 views/day
- Privacy law - 56 views/day - LLM, citations
- Information privacy law - 20 views/day - overlaps a lot with "privacy law" article
- Data breach notification laws - 10 views/day - outdated
- Privacy laws of the United States - 61 views/day - missing info
- Reasonable expectation of privacy - 37 views/day
- Third-party doctrine - 40 views/day
- Financial privacy laws in the United States - 13 views/day
- National security letter - 33 views/day
- FTC fair information practice - 19 views/day
- Warrantless searches in the United States - 32 views/day - needs to be updated
- Subpoena - 535 views/day
- Administrative subpoena - 59 views/day - needs expansion
- Emergency data request - 8 views/day - needs expansion
- Wiretapping - 126 views/day
- Computer crime countermeasures#Legal
U.S. laws:
- Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - 1556 views/day - "good article"
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 1986 - 60 views/day
- Stored Communications Act, 1986 - 48 views/day - expand lead
- In re Application of the United States for Historical Cell Site Data, 2013 - 3 views/day
- Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., 2010 - 2 views/day
- United States v. Forrester - could adapt https://itlaw.fandom.com/wiki/U.S._v._Forrester (CC-BY-SA)
- United States v. Jones (2012) - "good article"
Surveillance:
- Surveillance abuse - 26 views/day - needs expansion
- Surveillance tools - 9 views/day - needs to be updated
- Mobile phone tracking - 174 views/day
Privacy in general:
- Data collection - several tags
- Data retention
- Privacy concerns with social networking services - 37 views/day - very long and really messy
- Privacy concerns with Google - messy
- Privacy concerns with Facebook - not too bad
- Identity theft - outdated, some spammy citations
- Spyware - outdated
References:
- https://bja.ojp.gov/program/it/privacy-civil-liberties/authorities/statutes/1285
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1729000
- https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45631
- https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10801/LSB10801.1.pdf
- https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc807192/m1/3/ / https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R43586.html
- https://github.com/F-Jennings/HOPE_2025_talk
- https://epic.org/issues/privacy-laws/united-states/
- https://legalresearchclub.ua.edu/blog/2020/01/27/privacy-or-trespass-the-fight-over-the-fourth-amendment/