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Many who oppose tighter privacy restrictions concede that they do not know for sure that such rules would hurt the state's economy.
Those companies have already begun aggressive lobbying campaigns to stop or dilute tighter privacy rules, which they say would interfere with their business models and decrease profits and growth.
In a debate here last week, Charlene Nelson, head of the Constitution Party and a group favoring the stricter rules, Protect Our Privacy, made the emotional case for tighter privacy.
The European Commission recently recommended tighter privacy and security requirements for services including WhatsApp and Microsoft-owned video calling service Skype, saying they should be regulated more like traditional telecoms.
A disparate coalition seeking tighter privacy restrictions, reaching from labor and the American Civil Liberties Union to a small conservative organization, the Constitution Party, forced the referendum on the ballot.
Edmund Mierzwinski, consumer program director at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, said he believed that the North Dakota vote would lead to greater privacy efforts in many states, especially California, where the Legislature is considering a measure to do just what North Dakota voters did: impose tighter privacy rules than federal banking law requires.
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In social networks, people can increase their defenses against identification by adopting tight privacy controls on information in personal profiles.
Razor-tight privacy laws ensured anyone interviewed remained tight-lipped; private investigators who initially engaged quickly fell silent.
Tight privacy settings won't always keep personal information placed on social networking sites safe from an employers' prying eyes.
Immediately after last week's meeting in Brussels, Viviane Reding, an outspoken vice president of the European Commission and a proponent of tight privacy rules, insisted that France, Poland and Italy were still pushing for a strong law in 2014.
French politicians have been able to hide behind some of Europe's tightest privacy laws, protected by what amounted to a code of silence about the transgressions of the mighty.
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