The Intimate Privacy Act

Privacy was once taken for granted in public education, but now through the 1974 law, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act it is pushed to the forefront of the minds of every educator in the United States (Cossler, 2010). This law has paved the way for many lawsuits regarding privacy of student’s records, which have left teachers scared, undereducated and unaware of certain regulations of the law. FERPA laws provide protections for students, but also allow access of all student records to the student’s custodial parents, which in some situations has cause problems and in some cases have specifically brought clarifications of the law. Has the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act provided the much needed privacy for students

When comparing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, both have privacy and security rule,

Personal interest in the right to privacy has intensified in recent years along with the rapid development of new technologies. A century later, these concerns remain, but many others have joined them. Advances in information and communications technology have increased our ability to collect, store and transmit data about individuals. While these advances could be considered useful, some see them as a situation where anyone can watch and record the actions of every individual, and where the individual has lost control over information about herself and thus over her very life. As a reaction to these concerns, new regulations have been formulated to define the rights of individuals and the limits on the use of technology with respect to personal information.

According to Dictionary.com confidentiality is “the right of an individual to have personal, identifiable medical information kept private.” The definition for this term is widely known in health care, but when it is applied to adolescents many people do not understand the basics. Doctors are responsible for informing adolescent patients and their parents the privacy a minor is given according to federal and state laws, but in some cases doctors fail to do so. This results in the misunderstanding of minor’s privacy rights, which can lead to the adolescent patient not disclosing significant information, and the parents assuming they have the right to all of their child’s medical records. Because of this, it is important for adolescents and their parents to understand the nature of confidentiality in health care.

Such as the right for people to be secure, in their persons and homes from unlawful searches.

It is dictated by the owner of "Danny Gonzalez" that they refuse to accept or be a part of such indecency or of any inhumane manner on which the premise is to be left unnoticed and or unbothered. Code 21, section 3, clause 4, line 35 states "Any unlawful or unjust actions is a complete violation of The Humane Privacy Act 1985 and any violator will be prosecuted to the extreme measures of the court law." Further will be taken.

In this article the author discusses about the harmful actives that the internet dose to the youth. With two main points; cyber bullying and sexting, the author briefly discusses what they are and what threat that occurs from them. The article is useful to me because it shows the harmfulness on what could happen on the internet. However, this article is very vague and lakes a certain amount of information to achieve its point.

The introduction and recent rapid mass adoption on the internet has led to a plethora of new and sometimes novel problems, not only for law enforcement but for state and federal legislatures and judges of all circuits and levels in the United States and also for similar bodies around the world. While the internet, sometimes referred to as the world wide web or simple “the web” has been around and in use since the early 1970’s, it was not until the mid to late 1990’s that it really stated to take off and become engrained in American society. Much like the internet bullying, harassment, stalking and victimization has existed prior to the internet and stretching back far

The Privacy Act regulates how personal information is handled. Such information; individuals name, telephone number, medical records, bank account details, signature, date of birth, address and health records. It gives you power over the way your individual information is handled and the Act allows you to; know why your individual information is being composed; or how it will be used and who will be able to access it, ask for access to your information (as well as health information), If the information is incorrect, ask for it to be corrected and to have the option of not identifying yourself.

Privacy laws are fairly new to humanity. We can take a look at the animal world, of which

Marcum, Ricketts, and Higgins (2010) established a connection between the levels of online victimization and the Routine Activities Theory. The primary goal of the researcher’s study was to utilize the Routine Activities Theory in order to find gender distinctions between the levels of digital persecution experienced by secondary education students and higher education students entering their freshmen year. In this study, the researchers constructed three respective hypotheses in order to collect their data and formulate a conclusion. In the first hypothesis, the researchers hypothesized that teenagers who invest a substantial amount of their time communicating with others on the internet are more prone to online persecution as well as their

ICTs denote the array of technologies that help humans fulfill their information and communication needs. This entails the heterogeneous set of devices, applications, and services used in the production and distribution of information (Coleman, 2005). Over the years, ICTs have evolved tremendously, and now include the Internet, social networks, and mobile devices. Whereas this evolution has positively transformed the generation and circulation of information, the negatives cannot be overlooked. These technologies have now created new ways to perpetrate traditional crimes, including sexual violence

Cyberspace is a non-physical environment created by computers interoperating on a network. People can interact in ways that are similar to reality, but does not require physical movement beyond typing. Advanced technology established this parallel world, ‘cyberspace’. This can be convenient for people to chat, shop, share, explore or research online, but it can also be a disadvantage at the same time. The prime examples of the disadvantages are, people are able to create fake, imaginative identities and use it to abuse others and this can lead to serious issues, such as sexual abuse or child grooming; and since, the Internet can be recognised as a parallel world to reality, this discourages people to have face-to-face human interaction. Consequently, cyberspace can be harmful to all people, because there are hardly any restrictions on the Internet. Technology inaugurated this and it is having an inimical influence on the majority of people who have access to the Internet on a daily basis.

Today’s world is a technological one where people spend most of their time in front of a screen. When we think of technology we don’t immediately think Africa. We think of the developed world where technology serves to enhance, entertain, protect as well as threaten people in those areas. Africa as a continent is left for everything else such as dusty roads, green landscapes and women with bright colored clothing carrying children on their backs. Technology and the internet is not immediately associated with Africa and it should be. Africa consists of 57 countries with high access to the worldwide internet. African countries have women who work within the media professions as well as a large young girls who spend most of their time online posting pictures for friends to see and like. Unfortunately, with rising users of the free internet comes rising problems of online abuse within different African countries. What might be considered a “western problem” is making its way into the African arena affecting many of its women. Countries like South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania have had women who have faced the darker side of the internet through cyber gender harassment. With the lack of awareness of cyber gender harassment in African countries more women result to drastic measures such as suicide to find relief. While the world is focused on other problems involving Africans countries, the silent threat of cyberbullying in becoming more apparent with no means of recognising its

We use technology in almost every aspect of our daily lives; it is how we stay connected in this fast-paced world. Technology provides many benefits, but it has the potential to destroy many people. With technology use on the rise, bullying has taken a new, more destructive form. Cyberbullying, as defined by the Cyberbullying Research Center, is the willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text (qtd. in Chait). Cyberbullying is a serious problem and has serious consequences.