Report Summary November 6, 2009
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Online Privacy
Do Americans need better protection?

As Facebook prepared to click in its 500-millionth member this summer, the giant of social networking in May humbled itself before its global audience by simplifying its controversial privacy controls. The existing jumble of some 150 different options for protecting personal online data had drawn outcries from consumers, privacy-advocacy groups and Congress. “We probably should have been more. . . .

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Document Citation
Online privacy. (2009, November 6). CQ Researcher, 19, 933-956. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
Document ID: cqresrre2009110615
Document URL: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2009110615


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Sep. 17, 2010  Social Networking
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Nov. 17, 2006  Privacy in Peril
Jun. 15, 2001  Privacy Under Attack
Nov. 06, 1998  Internet Privacy
Nov. 19, 1993  Privacy in the Workplace
Apr. 17, 1992  Politicians and Privacy
Jan. 20, 1989  Your Right to Privacy
Mar. 21, 1986  Privacy in the Workplace
Oct. 18, 1974  Rights to Privacy
Apr. 05, 1967  Wiretapping and Bugging
Apr. 20, 1966  Protection of Privacy
Nov. 09, 1961  Wiretapping in Law Enforcement
Feb. 29, 1956  Surveillance of Spying
Jan. 25, 1956  Eavesdropping Controls
Mar. 14, 1949  Wire Tapping

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