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privacyThe degree to which an individual can determine which personal information is to be shared with whom and for what purpose. Although always a concern when users pass confidential information to vendors by phone, mail or fax, the Internet has brought this issue to the forefront. Web sites often have privacy policies that stipulate exactly what will be done with the information you enter. For more information, visit www.privacyalliance.org and www.epic.org. Contrast with confidentiality, which deals with unauthorized access to data. See privacy policy, CPO, EU Directive, GLB, HIPAA and P3P. privacy Philosophy the condition of being necessarily restricted to a single person
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The New York Civil Liberties Union defends the girls' rights of privacy. records managers are working to ensure that all this information is kept current for as long as it is needed and that the rights of privacy, confidentiality, and security are upheld. ``(T)he district has deprived the claimants of significant constitutional rights of privacy, equal protection and due process and had significantly impaired the claimants' ability to control and monitor the sexual education and development of the students,'' the claim said. |
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