Until Recently, There Was No Tort of Invasion of Privacy

question 120

Multiple Choice

Until recently, there was no tort of invasion of privacy in common law, but in at least one province, an American legal concept was imported and adopted as a privacy tort. This tort is known as

• A) defamation.
• B) invasion of privacy.
• C) intrusion upon seclusion.
• D) nuisance.
• E) interference of privacy.

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Definitions:

Population

Total number of possible units or elements that could potentially be included in a study.

Statistics

Branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data.

Null Hypothesis

A formal statement that assumes no association or effect between variables, serving as the basis for statistical significance testing.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method used to determine if there is enough evidence in a sample of data to infer that a certain condition holds true for the entire population.