Yet we do indeed always face a trade off between efficiency and other concerns such as privacy.
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It reflects growing concern for issues such as privacy, the impact of pernicious material, and protection from cyber bullying and harassment.
But issues such as privacy or consumer protection that could undermine support for e-commerce need a different answer, albeit one that draws on laws and policies developed in the offline world.
While other people testifying, such as privacy advocate Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology, pointed out that this is a problem for consumer privacy, Weinstein just expressed jealousy.
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Privacy advocates such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center claim the system puts personal information at risk.
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One reason: The technology is evolving faster than issues such as medical privacy and regulatory oversight can be resolved.
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Guidelines will address issues such as patient privacy and medical safety.
Instead, the media obsesses over trivial developments such as the privacy concerns of a proposed vehicle miles tax and a toothless announcement that an ill-informed drilling moratorium has been lifted.
Dean Karlan, a professor of economics at Yale University, says consumers have to consider such issues as privacy in connecting their digital identities with their financial ones and whether they should take on more credit, as more avenues open up.
Since Pano got started in 2008, it has benefited from corporate regulation that protects data security and privacy, such as HIPAA and patient privacy laws.
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Through virtual interaction with others, the game exposes students to a wide variety of concepts such as ethics, privacy, research and safety.
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To qualify, they have to meet in three stages a number of so-called meaningful use requirements, such as protecting patient privacy and providing patients with an electronic copy of their health record.
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These laws will impact not only money laundering prosecution but almost any asset protection strategy that attempts to maintain an element of financial privacy such as private banking or family trusts.
Much of the venom is reserved for policy changes, such as confusing updates to privacy settings, but the tweaks to the physical look of the site also generate a lot of feedback.
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said his group will be watching carefully to ensure that Intel doesn't do anything with its chips that could betray users' privacy, such as linking their identities to particular devices in a way that could be seen by others.
This protects companies from having their data flow severed, as long as their privacy policies comply with certain principles (such as letting consumers choose how data are used, and allowing access to that data).
So any bid would need to have firm plans for navigating these challenges such as keeping the two firms as separate entities to help ensure privacy concerns are met in addition to reaching a value for the firm that could win shareholder approval.
What worries a whole lot of people is that it provides all of the information about what the phone has been doing to that service provider: something that some or many see as a gross breach of privacy if not downright dangerous where such things as passwords and bank accounts are concerned.
Officials should be aware that in the past several years insurance companies have begun to market specific computer policies that may provide first and third-party coverage for losses associated with cyber incidents, such as costs for data restoration, crisis response, privacy notification and forensic investigation, as well as defense and indemnification arising out of cyber incidents, and business interruption.
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People happily exchanged their privacy for tools such as social networking applications for keeping in touch with friends.
So companies stumble into such questions as data protection and customer privacy.
The disruption could be especially severe if the upstarts not only make calling dirt-cheap or free, but also find ways to help consumers with jobs such as simplifying their communications as a whole or meeting their needs for privacy.
And we're in a temporary situation sleeping on a gym floor, and we're concerned about trying to get them into some semblance of a privacy until such time as they can go back to where they were from, which some of them it's going to be a long time.
While Indian courts have previously grappled with privacy claims against the government, this is among the first to address a privacy claim against the media--and, as such, is likely to shape the course of India's privacy law in the years to come.
Kaiser recommends people familiarize themselves with privacy policies and regularly update privacy settings on sites such as Facebook.
Recent privacy breaches of sites such as Facebook show that once information is divulged, it may be impossible to control.
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Some countries such as Australia and New Zealand have longstanding privacy laws, but many emerging nations have yet to roll out fully fledged versions of their own.
Facebook's proposal cuts the voting system out of the site's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which it says will free it up to explore new ways to involve users in policy changes, such as the new "Ask our Chief Privacy Officer" feature.
But though Jeffords' decision changes the political landscape in Washington, existing bipartisan agreement on many technology policy issues means that there are likely to be few immediate, substantive shifts on questions such as an Internet sales tax, online privacy, intellectual property or telecommunications regulation.
Police cannot see other parts of the site such as the directory of members in the group, as Nextdoor wants to keep the privacy of the users on the site.
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