Welcome to Choose Privacy Week!
Welcome to Choose Privacy Week!
Choose Privacy Week will take place May 1-7, 2012 and is an ongoing program of the American Library Association.
Choose Privacy Week is an initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.
Privacy Awareness Week 2012
Privacy Awareness Week 2012
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Do you ever wonder how you can you protect your privacy rights as an individual? Or consider your privacy responsibilities when you handle the personal information of others?
Privacy Awareness Week 2012 runs from 29 April to 5 May and is all about promoting awareness about privacy rights and responsibilities in the community.
Privacy Awareness Week is a jointly promoted annual event of the members of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities forum.
Obama Administration Calls for "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights"
The Obama administration unveiled plans to protect the privacy of Internet users today. The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights outlines principles that the administration expects Internet companies to adopt, even if legislation isn't passed.
A Review of Google’s New Privacy Policy
As of March 1, 2012, Google officially combined privacy policies from more than 60 of its services to a single privacy policy. In doing so, Google is now able to take information from users who are logged-in to its products and services and store them into a database.
Google responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries
Google has responded to Congress, defending its decision to make a controversial change to its privacy policy.
In a 13-page letter (document) to several Congress members, Google explained its decision for changing its privacy policy, and answered a host of questions posed by the lawmakers after the search giant announced its plans.
PRIVACY PAPERS FOR POLICY MAKERS 2011
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) invites privacy scholars and authors with an interest in privacy issues to submit papers to be considered for FPF’s second edition of “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers.”
FCC and FTC holds Location-Based Services Forum
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is holding a public forum on privacy concerns about cell phones and their ability to track the location of users.
The forum is being held between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT at the FCC Headquarters, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington DC 20554.
Audio/video coverage of the meeting will be broadcast live with open captioning over the Internet from the FCC’s web page at www.fcc.gov/live. The FCC’s webcast is free to the public. Those who watch the live video stream of the event may email event-related questions to livequestions@fcc.gov. Depending on the volume of questions and time constraints, the panel moderators will work to respond to as many questions as possible during the workshop.