Privacy Laws Hacker Definition
(legal term)
Deal with the right of individual privacy,
critical to maintaining the quality of life that citizens in a free society
expect. Privacy laws generally maintain that an individuals privacy shall not
be violated unless the government can show some compelling reason to do sosuch
as by providing evidence that the safety of the nation is at risk. This tenet forms the basis of
privacy laws in the United States and elsewhere.
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- Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
- advocacy
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
- biometrics
- Key Escrow
- straightjacket
- Gramm-Leach Bliley Act of 1999
- Homeland Security Information Sharing Act of 2002
- venal
- Hardware Attacks Paper by Ishai, Sahai, and Wagner
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2002
- U.K. Data Protection Act of 1998
- Honeypots or Honeynets
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