Exceptions might be made for material that involved the privacy of third parties.
They said public hearings, public debate and legislative protocol were essential in legislation involving the privacy rights of Americans.
The administration also released a partly redacted semiannual report about "compliance" incidents, or mistakes involving the privacy rights of Americans or people in the United States.
In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice maintains comprehensive guidance involving the Privacy Act, Freedom of Information Act, and other laws, and updates such guidance based on legal developments.
Netiquette also involves respecting the privacy of others online, and not sharing or forwarding emails and personal messages of others.
OSSE's letters do not identify the schools involved to protect the privacy of the students.
During a technology forum at the offices of Novell Inc., a software company, Mr. Clinton said the federal government ought to get involved in protecting the privacy of financial information and medical records on the Internet.
With a new book called The Age of Surveillance Capitalism making waves, we ask whether the business model of Google, Facebook and thousands of other companies involves the invasion of our privacy.
Even though the cases before us involve no invasion of the privacy of the home, and notwithstanding that the nature of the contents of these films was indicated by descriptive material on their individual containers, we are nevertheless persuaded that the unauthorized exhibition of the films constituted an unreasonable invasion of their owner's constitutionally protected interest in privacy.
