However, it is too early to tell whether that ruling signals the beginning of a larger trend toward greater privacy protections.
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What point is there to openness when it means greater privacy?
Salgado's prepared statement calls for updates to ECPA that allow for greater privacy measures, while also ensuring that government agencies can obtain access to documents when necessary.
The Clearinghouse, based in California (of course), is dedicated to raising awareness about the effect of technology on privacy, helping people protect their privacy, and advocating for greater privacy legislatively.
Goddijn does agree that consumers, globally, are paying greater attention to privacy issues and the ways their personal data is being sold and leveraged.
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It will also provide a better environment for patients, offering greater confidentiality and privacy, and create a safer and more practical base for staff.
We also expect Facebook to lay greater emphasis on privacy and security of user data, as well as pose stronger competition to Google in terms of bidding for ads.
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Airlines and airplane manufacturers are also focusing on giving passengers more space and a greater sense of privacy, and on offering them more choices in how they spend their time aloft.
Air New Zealand is among those leading the movement toward a greater sense of privacy for passengers, It recently introduced new cabin features across all three of its classes business, premium economy and economy.
However, there are solutions that allow for greater efficiency, while retaining privacy, and when coupled with progress being forced on the industry through regulation, could and should lead to a major evolution in hedge fund transparency.
The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids' privacy protections and give parents greater control over the personal information that websites and online services may collect from children under 13.
Government officials are also formulating new online-privacy rules that will give people greater control over the way information is collected about them on the web.
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In particular, the principles in the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights may require greater protections for personal data obtained from children and teenagers than for adults.
Facebook argued this reflected a shift in society towards greater openness and noted that users could still adjust privacy settings back again.
This is because an expectation of privacy arguably could be said to be greater in this context than it is with respect to communications over exclusively employee-owned devices and communication facilities.
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The administration's report, expected to be released Thursday, calls for Congress to pass a "privacy bill of rights" that will give people greater control over the personal data collected about them.
Kearney and the University of Cambridge's business school showed that among multimedia phone users, slow network speeds, along with cost and privacy concerns, are the top three obstacles to greater use of wireless data services.
As we continue to improve our cybersecurity under existing authorities, comprehensive legislation remains essential to securing our critical infrastructure, facilitating greater cyber information sharing between government and the private sector, and protecting the privacy and civil liberties of the American people.
Through abdicating our privacy, and embracing the openness of the Internet, we actually wield greater control over our reputations online.
The company's tweaked privacy policy promises to share more data with businesses, too, giving store owners greater visibility of customers who have recently checked in.
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Little privacy remains in most offices, and as work becomes more collaborative, a move toward greater openness may be inevitable, even for larger firms.
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Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a file stored on a hard drive in your home has greater protection than information stored with a third-party.
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