The likely outcome is a mix of European and American privacy frameworks, predicts Katitza Rodriguez of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy group.
And Dr Stamm is now a privacy advocate at the Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the development of the Firefox web browser.
"Our reading habits online encompass everything we're thinking about, political and religious views, health and relationship problems, " said Peter Eckersley, a senior technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy-advocacy group.
Beacon is now dead and Facebook will be creating a new foundation to study online privacy.
Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney at digital rights non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation, says your privacy rights at the border are limited.
There are already a good amount of organizations out there devoted to studying and protecting online privacy, notably the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The lesson for social networkers is to filter their MySpace postings before they hit the Web, says Kevin Bankston, a privacy attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
"The product has been designed to make it easier to share with one group of your friends while retaining some measure of privacy with respect to your family, coworkers or other groups of friends, " said Peter Eckersley, a senior technologist at privacy-advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, in an email.
Wikipedia's lack of anonymity comes as no surprise to Matt Zimmerman, a privacy-focused attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Attorney Hanni Fakhoury of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for online free speech and privacy rights, said the data amassed by police from surveillance cameras and personal devices has enormous crime-solving potential.
Partly in response to the resulting interest in online privacy and campaigns by groups like Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to universalize Web encryption, companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have all added SSL capabilities.
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"There's a societal ideal that what you read is nobody else's business, " says Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates for consumer rights and privacy.
Freedom of payments is an extension of financial privacy and digital cash-like transactions without financial intermediaries become a critical piece of that foundation.
According to the Electronic Freedom Foundation, social networks are being used by federal investigators, and last week the privacy organization released a 38-page PDF training course (obtained through the Federal Freedom of Information Act) that the EFF said was used for conducting investigations via social networks.
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