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The Right Way To Protect Privacy Throughout The Internet Ecosystem, Daniel A. Lyons Apr 2019

The Right Way To Protect Privacy Throughout The Internet Ecosystem, Daniel A. Lyons

Daniel Lyons

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How Different Are Young Adults From Older Adults When It Comes To Information Privacy Attitudes & Policies?, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Jennifer King, Su Li, Joseph Turow Jan 2018

How Different Are Young Adults From Older Adults When It Comes To Information Privacy Attitudes & Policies?, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Jennifer King, Su Li, Joseph Turow

Chris Jay Hoofnagle

Media reports teem with stories of young people posting salacious photos online, writing about alcohol-fueled misdeeds on social networking sites, and publicizing other ill-considered escapades that may haunt them in the future. These anecdotes are interpreted as representing a generation-wide shift in attitude toward information privacy. Many commentators therefore claim that young people “are less concerned with maintaining privacy than older people are.” Surprisingly, though, few empirical investigations have explored the privacy attitudes of young adults. This report is among the first quantitative studies evaluating young adults’ attitudes. It demonstrates that the picture is more nuanced than portrayed in the …

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Ispy: Threats To Individual And Institutional Privacy In The Digital World, Lori Andrews Apr 2017

Ispy: Threats To Individual And Institutional Privacy In The Digital World, Lori Andrews

Lori B. Andrews

What type of information is collected, who is viewing it, and what law librarians can do to protect their patrons and institutions.

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The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Jolina C. Cuaresma Dec 2001

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Jolina C. Cuaresma

Jolina C. Cuaresma

In the fall of 1999, President Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act. Twenty years later, this statute still governs how financial institutions use consumer data. The statute represents the first (and only) federal law that gives consumers privacy protection over nonpublic personally identifiable information. This paper examines a number of GLBA provisions and demonstrates that consumers do not control the terms under which their financial information is used. While the GLBA was an important first step in obtaining some level of information privacy, this paper argues that Congress undoubtedly placed a …

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