Privacy advocates were concerned that the players " dial-home " ability could be used to spy on people's watching habits.

... Privacy advocates, officials in two states and a competing data vendor have branded Matrix as playing fast and loose with Americans ' private details.

Privacy advocates raised concerns that the plan involved scanning their personal, private emails and that this was a security problem.

Privacy advocates are concerned about the use of this technology because, in some cases, it allows screeners to see airport passengers as if without clothing.

Privacy advocates are concerned.

Privacy advocates were relieved ; they had argued in Amicus curiae briefs that if the ECPA did not protect e-mail in temporary storage, its added protections were meaningless as virtually all electronic mail is stored temporarily in transit at least once and that Congress would have known this in 1986 when the law was passed.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 ( FERPA or the Buckley Amendment ) is a United States federal law.

It is generally agreed that the first publication advocating privacy in the United States was the article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, " The Right to Privacy ", 4 Harvard L. R.

Certain privacy rights have been established in the United States via legislation such as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ( COPPA ), the Gramm – Leach – Bliley Act ( GLB ), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ).

* Privacy laws of the United States

According to one legal style manual, a sample citation would be " Privacy Act of 1974, ( 2006 )", read aloud as " Title five, United States Code, section five fifty-two A " or simply " five USC five fifty-two A.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ( COPPA ) is a United States federal law, located at ().

Privacy laws, safety laws ( e. g., the Occupational Safety and Health Act in the United States ), and food and drug laws are some examples.

* Privacy laws of the United States

In the United Kingdom, an opt-in is required for email marketing, under The Privacy and Electronic Communications ( EC Directive ) Regulations 2003 since 11 December 2003.

Privacy legislation in the United States tends to be adopted on an ad hoc basis, with legislation arising when certain sectors and circumstances require ( e. g., the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, the Cable Television Protection and Competition Act of 1992, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the 2010 Massachusetts Data Privacy Regulations ).

Doe v. Chao, 540 U. S. 614 ( 2004 ), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court that interpreted the statutory damages provision of the Privacy Act of 1974.

* Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security in the Government of the United States, 2006 – 2009

* The United States Needs a Clear and Realistic Encryption Policy, Statement of Edward Gillespie, Executive Director, Americans for Computer Privacy, March 4, 1999.

The Privacy Act of 1974 (, ), a United States federal law, establishes a Code of Fair Information Practice that governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personally identifiable information about individuals that is maintained in systems of records by federal agencies.

The Privacy Act mandates that each United States Government agency have in place an administrative and physical security system to prevent the unauthorized release of personal records.

Ståle Schumacher ( born May 4, 1972 in Bærum, Norway ) played a major role in making the program Pretty Good Privacy available outside of the United States.

The CAPPS II system was criticized in a report ( pdf ) by the United States General Accounting Office in early 2004, and faced increased opposition from watchdog groups like the ACLU, ReclaimDemocracy. org, and Electronic Privacy Information Center.

* Privacy laws of the United States

Companies considering the use of an email marketing program must make sure that their program does not violate spam laws such as the United States ' Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act ( CAN-SPAM ), the European Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, or their Internet service provider's acceptable use policy.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act is a United States law.

Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 ( ECPA,, codified at ) was enacted by the United States Congress to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer.

** Privacy laws of the United States

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse ( PRC ), a nonprofit consumer organization in United States, published an online FAQ about information brokers.

Privacy extensions for IPv6 have been defined to address these privacy concerns.

Proposals such as the APEC Privacy Framework have emerged which set out to provide the first comprehensive legal framework on the issue of global data privacy.

It was not a result of Telstra failing to have reasonable steps in place to protect the personal information of its customers, as required by the Privacy Act ”, said Pilgrim.

Privacy concerns have been raised about webmail as corporations are storing large amounts of personal information.

Two states, California and Wisconsin have created an Office of Privacy Protection to assist their citizens in avoiding and recovering from identity theft.

Restricted documents are not classified per se, but only those who have a need to know will have access to such information, in accordance with the Personal Data ( Privacy ) Ordinance.

Organizations such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation challenged the Clipper chip proposal, saying that it would have the effect not only of subjecting citizens to increased and possibly illegal government surveillance, but that the strength of the Clipper chip's encryption could not be evaluated by the public, as its design was classified secret, and that therefore individuals and businesses might be hobbled with an insecure communications system.

Many groups, such as the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, have criticized the act for a lack of privacy and civil liberties protections, claiming that it authorizes government surveillance of private communications and allows companies to hand over large amounts of personal information on their clients without a warrant or judicial oversight, and thereby creates a cybersecurity loophole in existing privacy laws, such as the Wiretap Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

" Two families who received cards have sent letters to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, asking confirmation the MP won't use the collected personal information.

The Department of Defense Inspector General investigated the leak of Tripp ’ s security clearance form information and found that Bacon and Bernath violated the Privacy Act, and the DoD IG concluded that Bacon and Bernath should have known that the release of information from Tripp ’ s security file was improper.

Several U. S. representatives have challenged the ACS as unauthorized by the Census Act and violative of the Right to Financial Privacy Act.

802. 11i supersedes the previous security specification, Wired Equivalent Privacy ( WEP ), which was shown to have severe security vulnerabilities.

The position of the Canadian Psychiatric Association itself, stated in The Confidentiality of Psychiatric Records and the Patient's Right to Privacy ( 2000-21S ), and holds that " in recent years, serious incursions have been made by governments, powerful commercial interests, law enforcement agencies, and the courts on the rights of persons to their privacy.

Privacy International's aims and mandate have remained largely unchanged since its inception.

These include, or have included, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Australian Privacy Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( US ), Statewatch ( UK ), the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( US ), the European Digital Rights Initiative, Consumers International, the Foundation for Information Policy Research ( UK ), Liberty ( UK ), the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Moscow Human Rights Network, Amnesty International, Privacy Ukraine, Quintessenz ( Austria ), Human Rights Watch, Bits of Freedom ( Netherlands ), freedominfo. org, Index on Censorship, the Association for Progressive Communications, the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, Charter 88 ( UK ), the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates and the Thai Civil Liberties Union.

In 1998 Privacy International took the decision to start an international gong called the Big Brother Awards to be given to the most influential and persistent privacy invaders, as well as to people and organisations who have excelled in defending privacy.

Particular criticism was levelled at Privacy International's choice to rate Microsoft's Live Search brand and Microsoft as a corporation separately, a decision that resulted in a more flattering assessment of Microsoft than might otherwise have been the case.

Since 1997 Privacy International in cooperation with the Electronic Privacy Information Center has conducted annual surveys in order to assess how much privacy nations ' populations have from both corporative and government surveillance.