Chapter 4, Problem 3RQ

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Privacy:

• Privacy is the person’s rights, free from following or intrusion from other persons or organizations, including the state.
• Privacy is included in all places including working areas but employees are followed by high technology surveillance.
• There is no privacy in electronic communications...

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Challenges of Internet in protection of individual privacy and intellectual property:

• Current information systems technology consist of challenges, Internet technologies, traditional routines for shielding individual privacy and intellectual property.
• Data storage and data analysis technology allows companies to simply fold personal data about individuals from many dissimilar sou...

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Tools helping to protect the individual privacy of Internet users:

• Informed consent tool helps to protect the individual privacy during internet access. This will ask the user willing to give their information.
• Legislation acts such as Spyware Control Act, Electronic Privacy Protection Act, Consumer Online Privacy and Disclosure Act, and many others have been executed to help the privacy of individuals...

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Three regimes that protect intellectual property rights:

Intellectual property contains different protections under three different permitted behaviors:

• Trade secrets
• Copyright
• Patent law

Traditional copyright laws are inadequate to guard against privacy of the software because digital items can be copied so simple...