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The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) have reasonable intents, but are singularly poorly constructed, seemingly drafted because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was not producing the intended effect.
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In 1986, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated federal wiretapping law in an effort to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of cell phone users.
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Specific federal laws that folks tend to get these companies on are the Electronic Communications Act, the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act all laws designed to protect the privacy of your communications.
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There is also the thorny question of how Facebook could comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in America, which was designed to protect children under 13 as they use the internet.
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Cohen, who represented the company targeted on MoneySavingExpert, says more people are realizing that while online trolls can argue for the human right to privacy and (in Britain) call on the Data Protection Act to protect their identities, plaintiffs can call on the High Court to unmask them.
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The form, he said, ensures that he's in compliance with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly referred to as HIPAA, designed to protect the privacy of health information.
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Facebook is also required to protect us thanks to the Stored Communications Act, added to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in 1986.
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