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- Marian - 05-16-2014 03:52 AM
Social networking laws I think
- UrxmlF - 05-16-2014 04:06 AM
Careful about what you view as laws: When you sign-up and "agree" to their Terms of Service, you may be increasing difficulty of any privacy laws.
Check laws for "Privacy Ac"t, "Can SPAM" and "personally identifiable information (PII)" but always bare in mind there are differences between the law and your consent to use of certain systems could slightly amend your privacy if you "agreed to it up front" when you checked that "i agree" box and clicked continue.
The FTC works hard to protect you online as well. Check out their consumer section.
- Dunbar Pappy ÏŸÏŸ - 05-16-2014 04:10 AM
These vary by what country. Europe currently has the more stringent laws, but in the US, much of what goes on is '"self regulatory" and that means 'anything goes'.
As "Urx..." points out, when you sign up for a service, you consent to their rules...which may supersede other 'regulations'.
Of special importance is to comprehend that almost all services modify their ToS & PP's whenever they feel the urge to augment their income.
Almost always these mod's to the original agreement you got on-board with, change to the detriment of privacy...never the opposite.
Facebook has a running history of betraying users, and making it almost impossible to follow what settings do what actions.
Look for Yahoo to make some significant changes December 1 of this year.
For some insight on these and other issues, see the "Electronic Frontier Foundation, who monitor these very things:
https://ssd.eff.org/