A New Standard for Appropriation, with some remarks on aggregation Joseph S. Fulda, CSE, PhD* 701 lgkst i77th Street #21, New Drk, NY10033 fidda@acm.org; htlp://www.cdfb.orgMght.html It has been repeatedly decided that [the Fourth and Fifth] Amendments should receive a liberal construction, so as to prevent stealthy encroachment upon or '~radual depreciation" of the righ, secured by them .... In the spirit of these decisions we must deal with the questions beJ~re us. --Gouled v. United States, 255 U.S. 298, 304 (1921) he questions we consider surround appropriation of information, in particular what constitutes misapproriation of information as opposed to misappropriation of property containing information. As information is both emitted and captured without encapsulation in property-pure data--we need such a definition lest the Fourth Amendment and tort law alike become a dead letter, and privacy a quaint notion that like so many others our fathers held dear we will simply collectively forget. I. Background Long ago, when privacy meant security of one's person and property and a reputation that could only be damaged by probes in and of visible light or audible sound, it was enough to proclaim, with Sir Edward Coke, the great lawyer of sixteenth-century England, that
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