The committee, consisting of an unpaid group of people from the world of corporate privacy as well as the civil liberty community, were asked last December to review the plan and provide feedback on which privacy protections need to be put in place when info from DHS components (which include the TSA, the Secret Service, and Immigration Services, to name a few) are consolidated.

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"We are committed to protecting the privacy of debtors and it would be irresponsible of us to make that info public, " he said.

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Jonas is even prouder of Nora's new sibling: Anna, for "anonymous resolution, " which encourages organizations to share sensitive info without fear of losing it in an embarrassing breach of privacy.

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Vermont had enacted the law to protect the privacy of doctors, giving them the power to okay the sale of info about their drug prescriptions to patients only if they wanted.

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It's been quite some time since the new privacy policy was introduced, but the university says the sample group didn't reduce the amount of info shared with non-friends on the network, even as of 2011.

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