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This site talks about PIPA(Personal Information Pertection Act). It explains how PIPA helps pertect and keep our information safe.

More and more employers are starting to make your personal Facebook information apart of the process in getting a job. The fact that there is personal information such as religion or sexual preferences may sway the employer to discriminate against a potential employee by making decisions based on the information. The question still lingers though, is this inquiry for your information legal?

This is a memorandum from President Barak Obama on his expectations for The Freedom of Information Act. He expects everyone to be accountable for their actions as well as make sure they are honest about them. When questioned, all information must be presented according to the act, but if any nondisclosure is used, it should not be used to protect embarrassment or failure.

Big companies such as AT&T, Facebook, Google and Verizon are selling consumer personal data information. Such items as your locations from your phones to what apps you use are being noted big these comes.

When I read miserable, belligerently statist exercizes in punitive nationalism like this article (content warning: violent xenophobia, ill-informed conservative legalism, ethnic slurs all over comments threads) at a conservatarian website that calls itself the Personal Liberty Digest, I have to wonder what the words personal liberty mean to them, and what it is about ever [...]

The article describes how we are will to show our lives on social media for anyone to see not realizing how much is not private. Then talks about how upset we get when the Government is looking at us.

wow this article really opened my eyes to how much I use and rely on social media without considering the all risk.

It is amazing how much information people put out there. At work, we have to take compliance courses every year. Just last year, they added a couple of modules on social media, and what is expected of you in relation to the information about work that you put out there.

This website offers a rubric of the gun laws that are held by each state as of April, 2000. This information is used to help educate the public on gun crime, control, and enforcement. With this information, it is hoped that it would be used to prevent further crimes, injuries, and death caused by inappropriate gun use.

Facebook comes out with a new and easy to read guide on what information they have access to, and actually backup. Information such as what you search, what you say, and your aliases are, are all being kept. This information is considered, "non-personally identifiable information" and can be useful for marketing, the government, and anyone else who might want to dig up information.

This site gives gun laws of each state and if there are any permits, training, or other requirements needed by these laws.  The authors of the site make it a point to share all the different laws in each state to inform those who may not know of them.  This helps to prevent any law breaking due to traveling with a gun.

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.

ACLU'S trying to defend the first amendment and allow people to have more control of their personal information. The country has always struggled with freedom of expression, especially if it opposes government beliefs.

Private companies are using tracking devices and selling information to other companies and even law enforcement. It then gets into your privacy should be "justified". There are a couple of links that lead to other pages, one of which tell how we leave behind trails of information with sites that we visit.

This article talks about how privacy of individualm how personal information disclosed in a private place will not be disclosed to third parties, when that disclosure would cause either embarrassment or emotional distress to a person of reasonable sensitivities.

This site tells how companies are researching possible employees by there social media reputation.

Since I'm not the most social person by nature, I'm not very active with social media. I don't have a Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever. So, if anyone tries to Google me, there's not much that comes up. Hmm, I wonder if that could backfire if a potential employer can't find any information on me by using social media.

I don't believe that employers should be concerned of a potential or current employees social media sites.

Legal context of marriage and related materials.

Big corporations and our government believe spying on the public is normal. While privacy advocates warn officials of the dangers of accessing large amounts of personal and health information. Our President has used his authority to order wiretaps on many citizens, while ignoring the public outcry.

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.

At a time when the United States was attacked, many of the old rules of privacy went out the window. This attack altered the way information would be gathered in the future. Intelligence gathering became more important than personal rights.

information about what banks and other business's need to do to comply with the new need for information gathering