Protection Questions regarding the Future of Privacy

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Questions

1. What methods exists to protect privacy?
Under the US Federal Trade Commission Act, the Commission guards against unfairness and deception by enforcing companies' privacy promises about how they collect, use and secure consumers' personal information. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Commission has implemented rules concerning financial privacy notices and the administrative, technical and physical safeguarding of personal information, and it aggressively enforces against pretexting. The Commission also protects consumer privacy under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.[1]
2. What are people willing to give up for privacy? (Jurate)
3. Why do people want to give up privacy (security / anti-terror)? (Jurate)
4. How aware are people of what they can do to protect their privacy?
5. What is the correlation between privacy and security?
6. How do people who have private info protect privacy?
7. How is crime made easier by weak privacy protection?

References

[1] US Federal Trade Commission - Privacy Initiatives