Are Privacy Policies More Clear and Conspicuous

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Like a Bad Neighbor, Hackers Are There: The Need for Data Security Legislation and Cyber Insurance in Light of Increasing FTC Enforcement Actions

Privacy has come to the forefront of the technology world as third party hackers are constantly attacking companies for their customers’ data. With increasing instances of compromised customer information, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been bringing suit against companies for inadequate data security procedures. The FTC’s newfound authority to bring suit regarding cybersecurity breaches, based on the Third Circuit’s decision in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp., is a result of inaction—Congress has been unable to pass sufficient cybersecurity legislation, causing the FTC to step in and fill the void in regulation. In the absence of congressional action, this self-proclaimed authority is improper. This Note proposes that Congress enact a law giving the FTC actual authority to regulate data breaches. Thereafter, the FTC should use its rulemaking authority to establish procedural data security guidelines for companies to follow; this Note offers procedural guidelines for the FTC to enforce. It is necessary for companies to know how to protect themselves against FTC enforcement actions. As cyber risk is burgeoning, as self-regulation has proven insufficient, and as the FTC is continuously bringing suit against companies for inadequate data security, it is further necessary for companies to obtain stand-alone cyber insurance to protect themselves in the modern marketplace

Digital Food Marketing to Children and Adolescents: Problematic Practices and Policy Interventions

Examines trends in digital marketing to youth that uses "immersive" techniques, social media, behavioral profiling, location targeting and mobile marketing, and neuroscience methods. Recommends principles for regulating inappropriate advertising to youth

Privacy Policies on Global Banks\u27 Websites: Does Culture Matter?

Information privacy, the ability to control the information about oneself, is increasingly relevant as advancing technologies provide opportunities for ever faster and more extensive data collection. Electronic business continues to see the collection and storage of various types of customer information for use in increasingly innovative ways, resulting in enhanced marketing and services as well as concern from the customer about privacy. Online banking, in particular, is strongly impacted by customers\u27 concerns for privacy due to the sensitivity of the information it handles. Previous research has examined privacy concerns, including the impact of culture. This study is a global examination of global banks\u27 privacy policies as promulgated on their websites designed to gain insight into the communication of privacy practices throughout the world. Results indicate that there is a great deal of variation among what is disclosed on banks\u27 websites in different countries

Information Privacy: Management, Marketplace, and Legal Challenges

A panel at ICIS 2004 in Washington, D.C. explored many of the information privacy issues facing management in a post 9/11 environment. The panel was composed of privacy scholars, regulators, and practitioners. The panelists examined privacy disasters as a way of exposing these management challenges, discussed government and self-regulatory approaches to information privacy, and raised opportunities for research. This paper extends and deepens the examination begun at the panel and the discussions of issues raised by the audience during the question and answer session. In addition, a list of research questions is offered. The panelists provided key privacy information sources. A privacy bibliography is included

The Ultimate Irony: An Information Age Without Librarians

In this thesis, the continuing relevance of the profession of librarianship in the digital age is explored and assessed. After defining the library as information itself, the thesis establishes that electronic formats replacing printed matter is not an indication of libraries becoming extinct. Further, various aspects of the profession of librarianship—including library ethics, information extraction skills, and information literacy instruction—are discussed. Additionally, the potential for librarians to play an important role in a largely “jobless” society (as forecast by some experts and scholars as well as in a recent Oxford University study) is evaluated. Finally, a proposal is made for librarians to actively contribute to a more participatory and deliberative democracy by using the Internet to facilitate information access in the public sphere

Like a Bad Neighbor, Hackers Are There: The Need for Data Security Legislation and Cyber Insurance in Light of Increasing FTC Enforcement Actions

Privacy has come to the forefront of the technology world as third party hackers are constantly attacking companies for their customers’ data. With increasing instances of compromised customer information, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been bringing suit against companies for inadequate data security procedures. The FTC’s newfound authority to bring suit regarding cybersecurity breaches, based on the Third Circuit’s decision in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp., is a result of inaction—Congress has been unable to pass sufficient cybersecurity legislation, causing the FTC to step in and fill the void in regulation. In the absence of congressional action, this self-proclaimed authority is improper. This Note proposes that Congress enact a law giving the FTC actual authority to regulate data breaches. Thereafter, the FTC should use its rulemaking authority to establish procedural data security guidelines for companies to follow; this Note offers procedural guidelines for the FTC to enforce. It is necessary for companies to know how to protect themselves against FTC enforcement actions. As cyber risk is burgeoning, as self-regulation has proven insufficient, and as the FTC is continuously bringing suit against companies for inadequate data security, it is further necessary for companies to obtain stand-alone cyber insurance to protect themselves in the modern marketplace

Shopping For Privacy: How Technology in Brick-and-Mortar Retail Stores Poses Privacy Risks for Shoppers

As technology continues to rapidly advance, the American legal system has failed to protect individual shoppers from the technology implemented into retail stores, which poses significant privacy risks but does not violate the law. In particular, I examine the technologies implemented into many brick-and-mortar stores today, many of which the average everyday shopper has no idea exists. This Article criticizes these technologies, suggesting that many, if not all of them, are questionable in their legality taking advantage of their status in a legal gray zone. Because the American judicial system cannot adequately protect the individual shopper from these questionable privacy practices, I call upon the Federal Trade Commission, the de facto privacy regulator in the United States, to increase its policing of physical retail stores to protect the shopper from any further harm