The Legal Approach in Dealing with Invasion of Information Privacy in Social Networks

Invasion of information privacy is among the important legal issues that provided by social networks. In this article, we study the approach taken by legal systems in dealing with this issue and in the related subjects. Then,we analyze their rules and their solutions for the civil liability action about variant instances of this misconduct. Although the legal systems in support of the injured party have made significant progress in defining the realm of the invasion of privacy and in determining the requirements and elements of the civil liability, the results of this study show that the tort law has not been able to cover all issues related to the violations of information privacy in avoiding conflicts with constitutional rights such as freedom of expression and freedom of information, hence, for achieve to optimal and comprehensive solutions they needs to develop in this area.