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CHAPTER 4

PRIVACY
m e s t o p r i v a c y a n d

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accou n ta t t e r

e f o r m e r a n d t h e l a
de m a n d t h
for eve r y o n e e l s e

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OR G A N I Z A T I O N S

BEHAVING
BADLY
WhatsApp has been a strong defender of its users
privacy.
WhatsApp has been the instant messaging app of

choice for users who wish to keep their conversations


private.
Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $22 billion in 2014.
After the sale to Facebook was announced, WhatsApp
CEO and cofounder Jan Koum declared that nothing

would change with the company's privacy practices.

The change has raised concerns over the privacy of

users conversations and identities and has upset users


drawn to the app by the companys previous strong

stance on privacy.
Privacy Protection and the Law
The use of information technology in both

government and business requires balancing the

needs of those who use the information that is

collected against the rights and desires of the

people whose information is being used.


Inform a t i o n P r i v a c y

-the combination of

communications privacy and

data privacy
Privacy laws,
access to government
records
financial data
Individuals must
reveal much of their
personal financial
Applications, The U.S.
government has a

and Court
great capacity to
data in order to take store data about
advantage of the each and every one
wide range of
financial products
and services
Rulings of us and about the
proceedings of its
various agencies.
available

children's personal electronic

health information fair information practices


data surveillance
The use of electronic Many people feel that In recent years, new Fair information practices
medical records and is a term for a set of
there is a need to laws addressing guidelines that govern the
the subsequent protect children from government collection and use of
interlinking and being exposed to surveillance have personal data. Various
transferring of this inappropriate material been added and old organizations as well as
electronic and online predators laws amended in countries have developed
information among ;becoming the target reaction to the their own set of such
different of harassment; development of new guidelines and call them
organizations has divulging personal communication by different names.
become widespread. data technologies

Financial Data
Fair Credit Reporting Act (1970)
Right to Financial Privacy Act (1978)
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999)
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (2003)
Health information

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability


Act (1996)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(2009)
Children's
Personal Data

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (1974)

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (1998)


Electronic
Surveillance
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act (1968; amended 1986)

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (1978)

Executive Order 12333 (1981)

Electronic Communications Privacy Act (1986)

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