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prahy vuh see

  • n  the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
  • n  the condition of being concealed or hidden

  • Under this system, companies are allowed to cede responsibility for their privacy standards to a separate organization which monitors its members' compliance with privacy .
  • Most industrialized nations have evolved legal codes to protect their citizens from such invasions of privacy.
  • For the longest time, I couldn't get worked up about privacy: my right to it; how it's dying; how we're headed for an even more wired, underregulated, overintrusive, privacy .
News & Articles

  • Privacy, please: New technologies could hide your identity online
    You may want to stay anonymous online — that doesn't mean you can. Data crunching has grown so sophisticated and powerful, privacy researchers now warn that tracing identities from a pool of supposedly "anonymized" data is not just a possibility, it's a certainty."It is depressingly hard to try to anonymize data in a way that resists identification by a committed adversary," Arvind Narayanan, a ...
    June 14, 2013 - NBC NEWS
  • Privacy _ the online generation wants it
    CHICAGO (AP) — The generation that's grown up posting their lives online wants a little privacy. That's not what we might expect as we debate just how much access the government should have to our mobile and online lives.
    June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Privacy In Retreat, A Timeline
    The erosion of privacy is often pegged to post-Sept. 11 changes in federal law, but some of the most significant moments in our evolution to a less private world have come in the commercial realm.
    June 11, 2013 - NPR
Quotes

  • Nelson Mandela in ITN
    The Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a statement: "The family has asked for privacy as they mourn this tragedy."
  • John McCain in Detroit Free Press
    This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them,the McCain campaign said in...
  • Keith Urban in TheShowBuzz
    In a statement released by his publicists, Urban says the incident was "the result of one person's desire to do his job and my desire to maintain my privacy."

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