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How the European Union (EU) decides to move forward with their online privacy laws in regard to personal information, will greatly impact how the U.S. proceeds with theirs. The "economic partnership" between the two nations are so heavily intertwined, that legislations across seas will impact U.S. companies. The EU has implemented legislations protecting the rights of online customers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., companies have been reluctant to work with the government in providing U.S. online customers the same protection, because the majority of their profits stem from online advertising. These advertisements work so well because companies have been able to track consumer activities and in turn cater to them according to their habits. Implement government regulations that prevent big companies from doing that and their profits will plummet.

This web article goes over numerous ways that we can protect ourselves online. The site gives examples such as encryption and using the growing popular cloud services that many products now offer as a way to protect our personal information. Along with those examples, the website lists 8 additional protection examples along with links to services that can help with internet security.

About.com Guide - COPA Act, Internet censorship. This site outlines the Child Online Protection Act details and talks about similar bills that have been passed or attempted to pass through congress.

transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," May 18, 2010. Bill O'Reilly is interviewing John Stossel from Fox news. They are discussing verbal bullying between kids at school and online.

The United States government has been facing an intense amount of pressure, mostly from the entertainment and computer software publishing companies for years to find some method of stopping the online piracy that is allowing people to own copies of their merchandise for free.

PIPA is short for Protect IP Act and SOPA is short for Stop Online Piracy Act. They are both really big issues facing our world today. Many people are taking things illegally such as music, movies, software, and et cetera without paying for it. And now the government as well as the people who made all those things are fed up. For years people have tried to stop the hackers and now they are trying again. Will it work? Who knows.

The United States government has been facing an intense amount of pressure, mostly from the entertainment and computer software publishing companies for years to find some method of stopping the online piracy that is allowing people to own copies of their merchandise for free.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Shows a great video and talks alot about SOPA and PIPA laws. The video talks alot about several websites that disagree with these acts. Also, discusses who is for it and why it is important to have the privacy inplace.

Privacy in Peril, Article discusses Congress and how they will strengther privacy safeguards, but one hopes that they can protect personal data from Big Brother itself.

Although SOPA has been defeated, there's a new bill on the rise. The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN) is the next option in the pipeline, claiming to offer a more reasonable solution to internet piracy.

A worker got fired from her job after posting a comment on Facebook. NLRB ruled that this woman rights were violated because there are federal laws that protect employees rights to discuss their workplace problems. Now there are new ruling that apply workers rights to online discussions to ensure employees freedom.