Wikipedia describes that the Internet Privacy Act is a
non-existent and bogus law created by websites that perform illegal activities
such as peer to peer networking, download hosting and piracy. Usually, websites
use this law as a defence against arrest and claiming entrapment in court.
I saw one website make use of this Act as a defence for
itself in the early days of the Internet during the year 2000. The big problem
was that many people believed this. Some websites had viruses for people with IP
addresses linking to government or state authority establishments.
The Act was said to be signed by Bill Clinton in 1995, which
allows the website owner to hide their Internet Service Providers, companies
and people storing the files they own. The act also protects people affiliated
with the page, including their relatives, from prosecution.
However, since authorities found it false in 2005, it is
still seen in some modern file sharing networks, protocols and other areas.
Some hackers make use of the Internet Privacy Act to bug visitors and
eventually hack into their terminals with browser-based viruses. Websites who
use the Internet Privacy Act also wish to give the public and the visitor a
false sense of security regarding data protection.
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