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Privacy is not about control over personal data, according to the web theorist Danah Boyd, but the control individuals think they have.
And there is an ever growing demand for consumer-focused privacy-preserving apps, like CacheCloak, which hides your mobile location in a spaghetti map of plausible trails, or FaceCloak, which gives a layer of control over personal data within Facebook.
Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, is the second U.S.-based Internet business to modify its operations to suit German privacy laws, which give individuals extensive control over personal data.
Before his planned retirement from Congress at the end of next year, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat, intends to give American consumers more meaningful control over personal data collected about them online.
The commissioners told Google on Tuesday to give people more detailed control over personal data, and said the changes the search giant introduced in March amounted to breaking European data protection law, because the company was storing without consent cookies and data about sites people visited for between 18 months and two years.
Basically, the aim is to gain more control over personal data.
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Privacy as the right to be let alone and wide control over personal information.
What we are claiming is that increased control over personal information increases personal autonomy.
Here's an educated guess: Individual Control: The right to exercise control over what personal data organizations collect from them and how they use it.
Despite almost universal levels of concern over a lack of control over their personal data — and a majority of Americans welcoming the idea of more regulation to control how their person data can be used — a majority of those polled still professed themselves willing to trade some privacy for free online services.
The theme of control actually includes two issues: whether citizens feel that they have control over their personal data, and whether they feel they can influence the debate on privacy protection.
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