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Privacy Laws
Privacy laws differ around the world. Some laws formalize cultural and
societal preferences, such as laws in Germany outlawing Nazi and hate content.
Others are adopted to catch-up to privacy abuses, such as COPPA (The "Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act") in the United States responding to websites
marketing to children and putting their personal information and safety at risk.
In Europe the governments are trusted more than commercial entities with
information. Their laws reflect that bias. In the United States our laws, at
least until September 11th, reflected the opposite. Most laws permitted
commercial and private use of information, but precluded use and sharing by
governmental agencies. In the United States, the adoption of The PATRIOT act
amended many other privacy laws.
In the United States, Parry classifies privacy laws into three categories:
Kid, Cash and Kidneys. Most privacy laws fall into one of these categories,
children's privacy, financial privacy and health privacy. To read Parry's
PowerPoint presentation she presented to Hewlett Packard privacy professionals,
click here. Note that while you
are welcome to read and enjoy our materials, including the PowerPoint, these are
copyrighted and may not be used with Parry's consent.
The U.S. has been criticized for not valuing personal information and data
enough. It has created serious problems between the U.S. and European
Authorities and continues to be the cause of trade and information security
disputes. But U.S. laws on privacy are most extensive and pervasive than most
people understand. They are often included in other laws, rather than standing
on their own as "privacy legislation." This makes it harder for non-privacy
practitioners and for business and technology managers to "go it alone." And
even when they can locate the legal provisions, a rose is not always a rose when
laws are concerned. For example, "collection" under COPPA doesn't just refer to
information "collected" from a child under 13 years of age. It also includes any
information the child can possibly and technically shared with anyone else
online, such as through chatrooms, message boards and messaging technologies
like e-mail and instant messaging. But an understandable mistake isn't so
understood by the FTC or other privacy enforcing authority.
You may want to review our Workplace
Privacy and COPPA pages while we
construct this new page for our site.
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