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This article is from the viewpoint of a mother who chose not to vaccinate her children. She did much research and came to the conclusion that vaccines were unneccessary to ensure the health of her children. She also touches on informing the public of state laws that protect parents from having to vaccinate.

Posted on 30 November 2010. The prevalence of mobile devices with personally identifiable location-based information and the increasing use of social media are top concerns for 2011. With more personal information available on the Internet, in everyday consumer applications and stored in corporate databases, risks to consumers and companies will only grow in the next year.

The Obama administration is proposing new rules to share student personal data with public agencies and private entities without consent of the student or his/her family. The information to be shared includes but not limited to grades, household income, mental issues and disciplinary actions. Sharing of such information violates the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act which is designed to protect student and family rights.

This site talks about how the new Federal HIPAA law protects patients privacy regarding personal health information. Rules have been set as to who can view medical records without the patients approval. This includes health insurance companies, HMO's, and health care providers.

As technology becomes more popular, we begin to lose our privacy. The internet is becoming harder to avoid, and personal lives are becoming more public. Websites track your use of the internet- where you go, what you do, etc. In some ways this can be beneficial, as people cannot hide who they are anymore. IRS scandals, disease outbreaks, companies abusing power; all at our fingertips. This has sparked the debate between what is more important: your privacy? or our nation's security?

This article explains that there is basically no debate anymore over privacy vs security; privacy lost long ago. With the advent of the "information age" privacy largely died quietly and without much thought. Now that things like Google and Facebook exist, and we spit out private information without much thought, the debate is over.

This web site talks about an article posted in the NY Times regarding the internet era and how a judge ordered web sites disclosing confidential information to be shut down. They encourage people to post leaked information on Wikileaks.org in order to stop unethical behavior.

This article is biased but lots of good information about HOAs. The author is against HOAs and makes it clear in the first few sentances. He does give a lot of informative information about how HOAs work and the consequenses that come with them. He also talks about the fact that you don't have a choice in whether or not you can be part of an HOA.

This article goes into detail about a few of the rights we as Americans have given up and don't always realize. If anyone is looking for privacy information or social media related opinions this would be a decent article. 

This article goes into detail about a few of the rights we as Americans have given up and don't always realize. If anyone is looking for privacy information or social media related opinions this would be a decent article. 

This act is very important in order to keep your health privacy secure. Knowing that your medical information will be secure is very important for people who wish to keep their life private and keep themselves from medical insurance fraud.

I once worked in a call center dealing with medical records and it was very reassuring to see how serious HIPAA is taken. It definitely made me feel safe and confident in my personal health information.

I agree health privacy is very important. It is nice to see that HIPAA is doing its job and protecting the privacy of the people

When people talk about hacking and social networks, they're not referring to the com­mon definition of hacking, which is using malicious code or backdoors in computer networks to damage systems or steal proprietary information. Hacking into social networks requires very little technical skill.

I believe that there should be an increase on security with social networks because of how easy it is to hack into someones personal information!

This article posted by the ACLU discusses provisions of the Patriot Act that were granted extensions in 2011 despite their need for reform. The provisions in question could directly affect the American public and allow government access to personal information without probable cause. These provisions have been extended till June 2015.

This article is great for anyone wondering what Obama did to our privacy via The Patriot Act. There were 3 expiring pieces of the Act and they are now extended until 2015.

This site gives information about back ground checks employers use and what they are looking for. To include persons wanting to participate in scouts or other organizations where children are involved.

This site gives information as to what employers are allowed when it comes to your privacy. There are many links with question and answers such as if teleophone records can be reviewed.

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The whole purpose of this website is to inform people of each requirement that is needed for a young person to receive the benefits of the DREAM act. Some of these requirements include being in the United States for at least 5 years without leaving. This bill does not guarantee them citizenship right away but what it does is it lets them stay in the United States if they agree to either join the U.S military or attend college. Mostly all illegal immigrant students want to do both so it benefits them in many ways, since it is already in their minds.

It is an overview of the helment law, that we currently don't have unless the rider is under the age of eighteen. It gives all the information from when it used to be law to how it got revoked and opinons from medical personnel on the consequences of riding without a helmet.

Many business are using new technology such as biometric finger scans and facial recognition to make sure employees are free of criminal history and are allowed to have computer access. People are concerned about the privacy issues that go along with facial recognition. Once the business gets a facial scan they can look up other personal information such as phone numbers, social network accounts, and home address.

I had a friend once that worked for a hardware store. He told me that the place had a camera by the front door with facial recognition. He was told that was so that they knew if ex-employees came back into the store. I'm not sure what they had to worry about, and I thought that was very unusual.

Edward Snowden says he was compelled by conscience to inform the world about a massive abuse of authority perpetrated by the US NSA. According to his documents, the US government has been systematically collecting the phone records and online communications of millions of American citizens.