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?
First of all, money and everything related with that. People can give up money in direct meaning: like to buy a strongbox for saving important documents; or indirect meaning: like to give up singer carrier in order to be less disturbed by paparazzi. People are also willing to give up certain relationships or other goods/ information, which intervenes required privacy.
3. Why do people want to give up privacy (security / anti-terror)?
For better welfare people can give up privacy. There can be many various reasons for that: bigger security for you and your family, better living conditions (food or trip for privacy), future carrier (president for all personal data), health recovery (new medicine for track of sickness) and et cetera. It is important to mention, that people could give up not only privacy for gaining these advantages. The other reason for giving up privacy depends on understanding of the information’s importance. And for everyone it is different. But if the information is not so especially important (like your name) and don’t makes any difference to share it or not, the person is willing to give up it.
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