Enough is enough! President Barack Obama discusses how it is past the time to have set regulations regarding our personal information. A stance Obama discussed that I had not previously thought of was having a reasonable limit on the amount of individual personal information a company can gather from the websites we view. Within the article, Obama Pushed for New Internet-Privacy Law to Protect Consumers, he expresses his concern that his intent is to not hurt Internet companies. When taking my personal privacy into account I tend not to think of how it affects companies; however, it is a topic that needs to be discussed. Obama proposed a law that is currently being passed through Legislation that would better secure our private information from others. Technological companies have made it clear they will fight to keep the "regulation to a minimum." With further research I found an article, Privacy Laws Affecting Online Businesses, which states there are more privacy laws than one individual could possibly imagine. An example of a law that I personally did not think of would be HIPPA. HIPPA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPPA protects our personal health information, and forbids our doctors and their offices from releasing any type of information without our consent. With our health care system recently switching our personal records from paper to a electronic system, health care Internet companies now have a new law to comply with.
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I learned within the article, The State of Facebook: What's Working Now, that the day to day consumer would be more greatly affected than I was aware of. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks thrive on the ability to collect and market the populations information. I was shocked to read that Facebook's privacy statement started out as one sentence and is now as long as the United States Constitution. I do not feel there is any need for that many stipulations for any given website! Simplicity, I believe, is the key to ensuring that the majority of the population may understand what is being told to them by a website.
In an article, Watchdog Planned for Online Privacy, it is discussed that government officials are finally seeing the need for improvements on our internet privacy. Representative Joe Barton was even quoted saying, "Better late than never." I understand that no one is perfect but I think if we put a little more effort into prevention we would have less messes to clean up in the future. There is not currently a U.S. Law that protects our information unanimously. The United States government is however currently working on passing one through legislation, so we can better protect ourselves through our own actions.
Citations
- http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2011/06/obama-blames-us-economic-woes-on-our.html
- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/23/obama-pushes-for-new-internet-privacy-law-to-protect-consumers.html
- http://www.copyblogger.com/state-of-facebook-marketing/
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703848204575608970171176014.html
- http://www.atrizadeh.com/lawyer-attorney-2083860.html
- http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/summary/index.html
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