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wesmills 's List: Privacy in the digital age
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This survey, by EPIC and Privacy International, reviews the state of privacy in over fifty countries around the world. The survey examines a wide range of privacy issues including, data protection, telephone tapping, genetic databases, ID systems and freedom of information laws. The report finds that there is a worldwide regocnition of privacy as a fundamental human right. Many countries around the world are enacting comprehenisve data protection law to safeguard individual privacy increase. However at the same time, privacy is increasingly being undermined by technical advances and the demands of intelligence and law enforcement agencies for increase surveillance powers. There is a strong need for improved oversight and stricter enforcement of current laws to ensure that legal protections are not ignored as threats to personal privacy increase.
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The 31 organizations are voicing their concerns about Google’s plan to scan the text of all incoming messages for the purposes of ad placement, noting that the scanning of confidential email for inserting third party ad content violates the implicit trust of an email service provider. The scanning creates lower expectations of privacy in the email medium and may establish dangerous precedents.
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Privacy related to Google's gmail service
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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In a world where information and communication technologies (ICT) are fast becoming ubiquitous and indispensable, the ICT industry has a crucial enabling role in social, economic and human development. Deploying ICT triggers changes in behaviour and governance.
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Protecting Data Privacy in Health Services Research
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Is Your Printer Spying On You?
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Privacy violations in unlikely places.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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Law on privacy in the workplace.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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Law on privacy in the workplace.
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Any advanced technology creates new threats as well as new potentials. The Internet offers enormous opportunties, which are being exploited by communities, and increasingly also by business enterprises. It also harbours risks to the privacy of personal data and communications, as marketers seek to profile their electronic customers, and governments seek to impose themselves on people they see as miscreants. This paper describes the kinds of threats that exist and are emerging. It also outlines measures, both fair and foul, that are being adopted to counter those threats.
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Emerging and angles of threats to privacy.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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SURFER BEWARE:
PERSONAL PRIVACY AND THE INTERNET
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Methods of security on the Internet.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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Privacy Self Regulation: A Decade of Disappointment
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Research on privacy self regulation and the protection of information by businesses and government, primarily commercial.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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United States Privacy Act
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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Links to laws and other rules on Internet and digital privacy rights.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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Links to laws and other rules on Internet and digital privacy rights.
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Ways to stay anonymous, how information is used and digital transactions.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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The Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 generally prohibits the interception of electronic communications, including e-mail. However, three major exceptions to the ECPA may allow the interception of employee e-mail.
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Electronic privacy in the workplace and digital privacy law.
- wesmills on 2008-02-29
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