Facebook stores and sells your information to 3rd party websites, in other words, your personal info is given to them so they can put it into their market.
Contemporary information systems and the internet allow for vast amounts of personal data and intellectual property to be easily accessed, shared, and stored, increasing the risk of unauthorized access and misuse. The borderless nature of the internet also makes it difficult to enforce privacy and intellectual property laws globally. Additionally, evolving technology and encryption methods present challenges for regulators and law enforcement to keep up with rapidly changing threats to privacy and intellectual property.
They will be giving the Privacy Act Statement which "provides protection to individuals by ensuring that personal information collected by Federal agencies is limited to that which is legally authorized and necessary and is maintained in a manner which precludes unwarranted intrusions upon individual privacy. "
Platform for Privacy Protection
Laurent Delprat has written: 'Communication et Internet' -- subject(s): Access control, Copyright, Data protection, Electronic records, Freedom of information, Internet, Law and legislation, Neighboring rights, Privacy, Right of, Right of Privacy
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
The information systems should be set up to protect privacy for individuals. The firewalls and all the protection should be in place.
The internet is fairly private but a few things can go wrong. Hackers can breach protection and find valuable information such as social security numbers and bank account information.
Privacy software is software built to protect the privacy of its users. The software typically works in conjunction with Internet usage to control or limit the amount of information made available to third-parties. The software can apply encryption or filtering of various kinds. Privacy software can refer to two different types of protection. One type is protecting a user's Internet privacy from the World Wide Web. There are software products that will mask or hide a user's IP address from the outside world in order to protect the user from identity theft. The other type of protection is hiding or deleting the users Internet traces that are left on their PC after they have been surfing the Internet. There is software that will erase all the users Internet traces and there is software that will hide and encrypt a user's traces so that others using their PC will not know where they have been surfing.
Personal information is collected and maintained with a privacy act. A privacy act "provides protection to individuals by ensuring that personal information collected by Federal agencies is limited to that which is legally authorized and necessary and is maintained in a manner which precludes unwarranted intrusions upon individual privacy."
The Data Protection Act was introduced with the increasing practice of storing peoples personal information on computer databases. It was set up to protect the privacy of the individual against unauthorised access to their personal details.
Privacy Policies
Abdul Raman Saad. has written: 'Personal data & privacy protection' -- subject(s): Data protection, Law and legislation, Privacy, Right of, Records, Right of Privacy