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Privacy International
Who? Privacy International’s mission is to defend the right to privacy across the world, and to fight surveillance and other intrusions into private life by governments and corporations. Our vision is a world in which privacy is protected by governments, respected by corporations and cherished by individuals.
When we think about data breaches, we often worry about malicious-minded computer hackers exploiting software flaws, or perhaps Internet criminals seeking to enrich themselves at our expense.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse | Empowering Consumers. Protecting Privacy.
The New York Times reported that Facebook would provide users with a downloadable archive containing many types of data that the company stores about users. Although the new archive contains more user information than Facebook first offered in 2010, Max Schrems, the German law student and founder of Europe v. Facebook , said that Facebook is still only providing 39 of 84 data categories.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics. Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity?
Strong privacy and security rules are crucial to the success of the new health insurance exchanges mandated by the Health Care Reform.1 These exchanges will require new and unique exchanges of data among state agencies, the federal government, private health plans, businesses, individuals and the exchange itself.