Libel laws protect people from defamation, privacy laws protect them from having their innermost secrets broadcast willy-nilly, and laws of contempt protect courts and defendants alike from having their search for justice perverted by irresponsible disclosure during a case.
Can we not use the very same information technology infrastructure which so powerfully invades privacy to protect it?
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.
The settlement requires Facebook to take several steps to make sure it lives up to its promises in the future, including by giving consumers clear and prominent notice and obtaining their express consent before sharing their information beyond their privacy settings, by maintaining a comprehensive privacy program to protect consumers' information, and by obtaining biennial privacy audits from an independent third party.
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Chris Soghoian, a technologist and policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, told the Threatpost security blog that Mr You's main job would be "to keep the company out of privacy-related trouble" rather than to protect user privacy.
Senators threw out the first draft, saying it did not do enough to protect privacy.
To protect privacy, you can only tag people who are your friends on Facebook.
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Google said the ICO had re-iterated its confidence that Street View did enough to protect privacy.
He also stressed how corporate self-regulation, and media and information literacy for users, could protect privacy and freedom of expression.
The podcast is a good short introduction to some ideas I have about technology and how it can help protect privacy.
They proposed a highly limited role for criminal law to protect privacy, putting the emphasis instead on civil remedies for violations.
The White House threatened to veto the House bill, however, over concerns the bill didn't do enough to protect privacy rights.
The irony of this IRS position comes at a time when state governments are upgrading their taxpayer protection and privacy systems to protect Social Security numbers.
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Narayanan, who was not involved in the lawsuit, currently works developing techniques that will protect privacy while allowing the sorts of computer research Netflix was interested in.
The new rules shouldn't cause chaos in the online kids' market because most major children's sites already work to protect privacy, said an analyst at Jupiter Communications LLC in New York.
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Microsoft and Ask.com issued a joint statement over the weekend calling on members of the search industry to meet and discuss ways they can work together to define privacy principles and protect user information.
On top of ISPs' strict privacy policies, investigators also struggle with a tangle of federal laws that protect the privacy of anyone who communicates via the Internet.
The national privacy debate needs to refocus on those areas where something realistically may be done to protect our shrinking privacy rights, i.e. regulating the access, use and storage of personal information.
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The names and identifying details of the patient were changed to protect her privacy.
Yes, current federal law is designed, in part, to protect the privacy of taxpayer information.
"Nobody wanted to help us, " said Sandra, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy.
Is our expectation of what sites need to do to protect our privacy getting too high?
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Why are companies not doing more to protect our privacy and our financial data?
The government has pledged to look at ways to protect investor privacy following the events.
The VA and Medicare systems protect patient privacy by allowing access only to authenticated users.
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Website creators need to be aware of the need to protect the privacy of unthinking users.
These are some of the easiest things you can do to protect your privacy.
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Cookie Crusher: Protect your privacy by rejecting Web site cookies before they hit your hard disk.
Please explain how you protect the privacy and security interests of that contact in his or her information.
Toyota, for example, said that in order to protect the privacy of its executives, it never discloses compensation information.
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