Clearly, the balance between individual privacy and government secrecy is enormously out of whack.
But it should not and cannot be used as the excuse to take away individual privacy.
They will also need to monitor closely the impact that new kinds of devices have on individual privacy.
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The difference is that individual privacy protects freedom, while government secrecy jeopardizes it.
It meant 60 individual privacy policies for individual Google-owned sites were merged into a single policy for all of its services.
In Australia, bugging and phone tapping are regulated separately but priority is given in both sets of legislation to individual privacy.
Individual privacy continues to shrink, while government secrecy continues to grow.
Individual privacy must be protected as science moves forward with the project, and the information must not be used to discriminate against any group or person.
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Civil liberties advocates and many companies resolutely oppose the plan, saying it is unworkable, an infringement on individual privacy and destined to stunt the growth of electronic commerce.
As with any public or private power, TIA's capabilities could have been abused -- which is why the Pentagon research team planned to build in powerful safeguards to protect individual privacy.
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Capellas did not, however, have an answer about how to safeguard individual privacy rights in a world where any company can predict what he or she might buy because they know the customer so well.
As it does so, it will find itself grappling with a number of thorny issues that include constraints on wireless connectivity, concerns about individual privacy and worries about the environmental impact of all those billions of gadgets and gizmos.
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The British bugging and phone tapping laws are so riddled with technical holes that they provide little guarantee that an individual's privacy will not be wrongfully invaded.
But state intrusion into an individual's privacy can be justified only if it has a clear basis in statute and the methods used are essential to combat serious crime or threats to national security.
His amendments would be "a significant step forward for the right of privacy, individual freedom and democracy", he argued.
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But there is a cost to be paid in privacy and individual freedom.
In this brave new world of transparent data, the dilemma about where to draw the line between respecting the privacy of individual drivers and punishing law breakers is complex.
But Shibboleth handles all the identification and authentication of users in between the school and the database, thus reducing the complexity of management and protecting the privacy of individual users.
Friday, in an interview with CNN's Larry King Live, Ashcroft insisted that the new regulations for domestic surveillance will not mean that the FBI will invade the privacy of individual Americans.
Their main fear is the ease with which police would be able to gain access to the public keys lodged with Trusted Third Parties, posing a threat to privacy and individual liberties.
Luckow herself is torn between the need for strict laws to protect the privacy and individual liberties of the mentally ill and the need to bring them under medical care, even if that is against their will.
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While discovering terrorist plots is a legitimate function of the FBI the violation of the privacy and individual rights of the people is too high a price to pay for the dubious information gleaned by snooping on email.
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She said taking privacy of the individual into consideration was also a key area of research.
Ms Morton says the case illustrates how anything done in one's own home would probably be upheld by the court as within the privacy of the individual.
"The collection and use of data by government and the private sector, the balancing of individual rights and liberties against privacy and security and the issue of how to tackle social exclusion, will be affected by these trends, " he said.
We could argue until the cows come home about when and where the right to privacy must be curtailed in order to uphold other individual rights, but we never should disavow or devalue our right to privacy.
One of the most hotly debated of all individual rights is the right to privacy.
Privacy means that the individual may choose to whom to reveal the details of her inner life.
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As an employee and as an individual, you should use all privacy protections the internet and its services will afford you in terms of privacy protection on the information people can readily find.
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