Fortunately for us, no reasonable person would construe my generalities as "legal advice". >With the Internet, you do not need to have a physical location some

Fortunately for us, no reasonable person would construe my generalities as "legal advice". >With the Internet, you do not need to have a physical location somewhere to do business there. Although this is true, the rule of thumb has generally been that sites are governed by the rules of the principality where their servers reside, because it's the only effective or practical way to determine jurisdiction in a worldwide network. (It's likely that most websites have something hosted in CA, by the way). I agree that this issue can become complex, but it's really only a side note to the intent of the post, which is that under our current legal structure, people are regularly bullied by plaintiffs that make exercising legal rights and obtaining justice much more costly than just complying with their original demands. The privacy policy thing is just one example of this.