You Recently Received a Notice That Your Internet Service Provider

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Essay

You recently received a notice that your Internet service provider has released your personal account information to a third party in connection with a defamation complaint.When you call to contest the service provider's actions, you are referred to a provision in the terms of use agreement that you apparently did not read (or, at least, you did not remember reading it!).The relevant provision gives permission to release personal information under such circumstances.Can the service provider rely on the provision? Explain your reasoning, using the precedent set out in Rudder v Microsoft.

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Definitions:

Inflation Rate

The rate of climb in the general price structure for goods and services, slashing the potency of purchasing.

CPI

Stands for Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.

GDP Deflator

A benchmark for evaluating the price levels of all new, home-produced, end-use goods and services within an economic system.

Price Index

A measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services over time.