Despite the heightened privacy awareness at Facebook, people are already complaining about the new features, of course.

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And on the flip side, numerous instances of leaked personal data from computerized databases have heightened privacy concerns.

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However, heightened privacy concern can slow the overall download growth in the market.

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Coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the legislation included heightened privacy protection for your email, requiring the government to get a warrant to peek at it.

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First, a company can agree contractually with all its employees to afford their data the same heightened data privacy protections that it would receive in the EU. However, this does not apply to HR-related data because EU law presumes that negotiations between employer and employee with respect to such data necessarily involves duress, implicit or otherwise.

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Born in Romania to Holocaust survivors, he likely has a Continental European sense of privacy, that is, a heightened respect for it, given the terrible things a government can do when it knows too much about you and its power is not restrained.

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