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MSNBC has a week long series on privacy issues, here is the link to the main page -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15157222/
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"Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?"
"It's vanishing, but there's no consensus on what it is or what should be done"
"Still, privacy is much more than an academic free speech debate. The word does not appear in the U.S. Constitution, yet the topic spawns endless constitutional arguments. And it is a wide-ranging subject, as much about terrorism as it is about junk mail. Consider the recent headlines that have dealt with just a few of its many aspects:
Hewlett Packard executives hiring private investigators to spy on employees and journalists.
Rep. Mark Foley sending innuendo-laden instant messages – a reminder that digital communication lasts forever and that anonymous sources can be unmasked by clever bloggers from just a few electronic clues.
The federal government allegedly compiling a database of telephone numbers dialed by Americans, and eavesdropping on U.S. callers dialing international calls without obtaining court orders.
Privacy will remain in the headlines in the months to come, as states implement the federal government’s Real ID Act, which will effectively create a national identification program by requiring new high-tech standards for driver’s licenses and ID cards. We'll examine the implications of this new technological pressure point on privacy on Thursday."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/
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"In Europe, privacy is different"
"Some of those rulings might seem like a panacea for Americans who believe their privacy is slowly slipping away
In many parts of Europe, for example:
Personal information cannot be collected without consumers’ permission, and they have the right to review the data and correct inaccuracies.
Companies that process data must register their activities with the government.
Employers cannot read workers’ private e-mail.
Personal information cannot be shared by companies or across borders without express permission from the data subject.
Checkout clerks cannot ask for shoppers’ phone numbers.
Those rights, and many others, stem from The European Union Directive on Data Protection of 1995, which mandated that each EU nation pass a national privacy law and create a Data Protection Authority to protect citizens' privacy and investigate attacks on it.
National laws come in several flavors, and emanate from varied traditions. But taken together, they are the backbone of a basic European principle: Privacy is a human right.
In this clear declaration, Europe ventures far from the patchwork approach taken by U.S. lawmakers. But a privacy heaven, it's not."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221111/
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