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Chapter 6 of the book "Manager's Legal Handbook" is presented. It discusses some employment practices that could violate privacy protection laws such as testing, monitoring employee communications and off-duty conduct. The authors explain what companies can and cannot do when gathering information about their employees.

The article offers an overview of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 6103, the IRC 6104 and 6110, and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the U.S. IRC 6104 calls for specific tax-exempt organization documents to be open to the public and to State charity officers. Meanwhile, IRC 6110 calls for the ext of specific written determinations to be open to the public. FOIA enables the public to ask for federal agency records with some exemptions. The article also discusses the scope of the Privacy Act.

The article discusses how to develop a company policy on employee privacy in the workplace. Among the topics discussed are telephone monitoring, workplace searches and the use of cameras and cell phones with recording capabilities in the workplace. It claims that the policy bans workers from capturing pictures of co-employees, company property and important trade secrets.

The article discusses the right of a landlord to enter the property and the right of a tenant to privacy following disputes over rent or security deposits in the California setting. Under state law, landlords have the right to legally enter a rented property in the presence of a tenant in situations including pursuant to court order, to deal with an emergency and when permission is given by the tenant. Some remedies that a tenant can make if a landlord acts illegally including withholding rent and suing the landlord in court.

Chapter 20 of the book "Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court in California" is presented. It discusses several aspects of a landlord-tenant case. These cases involve filing of case by the tenants and landlords. Tenants can file on the failure to return deposits or infringement of privacy and landlords file it for unpaid rents and damages to the property. It highlights the state deposit law of California, which deals with deposits collected by the landlords and how it should be used.

Chapter 5 of the book "California Tenants' Rights," by Janet Portman and David Brown is presented. It discusses the legal aspects of invasion of tenant's privacy by landlord and discusses various illegal forms of privacy invasions. Legal reasons for entry into a rented housing by landlord include emergency cases, making or assessing repairs, serving notice to the tenant. It suggests taking step-by-step approach to convey discomfort if a landlord is violating the right of privacy.

Chapter 8 of the book "Quick Reference to HIPAA Compliance" is presented. It explores the standards that protect the privacy of personal health information in the U.S. Employers have to inform participants of the availability of the Privacy Notice every three years. Comprehensive final privacy regulations were issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which compose the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) final rules such as the Privacy Rule, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Rule, and the Security Rule.

Chapter 9 of the book "How to Hide: A Practical Guide to Vanishing and Taking Your Assets With You" by David Wilkening is presented. It states the things to be considered when planning for disappearance including the need to delete all the online account and remove storage units to keep the disappearance safe. It mentions the tips to protect Internet privacy including reading privacy policies, update the security software and never to use the social networking sites.

Chapter 8 of the book "The A-Z Guide to Federal Employment Laws for the Small Business Owner," by Shannon Johnson is presented. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) protects the privacy of consumer credit information. Under the FCRA, the U.S. Congress ensures that consumer reporting agencies responsible for assembling and evaluating consumer credit maintain consumer's right to privacy and prevents the employers in gaining access to any medical information of the employee.

The article focuses on the legal rights of tenants as stated in the Real Property and Executive Law against their landlords in New York City. It says that landlords must allow tenants to exercise their rights for privacy in their apartments and involvement in organizations. Furthermore, landlords are prohibited from discriminating tenants in occupation and sexual orientations as well as harassment, in which victims are urged to complain to the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR).

Chapter 2 of the book "Email Legal Issues: 2008," by Susan Singleton is presented. It explores privacy laws and surveillance, Human Rights Act 1998, and the things differ in English law in the U.S. It discusses the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and Telecommunications which enables employers to intercept electronic mails and telephone calls of the employees. Guidance on monitoring electronic communications is also presented.

Chapter 8 of the book "The College Roommate From Hell: Skills & Strategies for Surviving College With a Problem Roommate" is presented. The chapter discusses when one decides to move out of the room because of differences or unacceptable behavior of one's roommate. It cites several situations wherein one must decide to move out, such as one's safety is compromised, the roommate is involved in unlawful activities, and a proven invasion of privacy. It also tackles the feasibility of living off-campus.

Chapter 5 of the book "Your Rights in the Workplace," is presented. It discusses several legal aspects related to the privacy of employees private information, which an employer may have, in the U.S. It is stated that, private employers in the U.S. have an unfettered hand when it comes to the kind of information they can collect about their employees. It offers information on laws in the U.S. states related to an employee's privacy including, medical examinations, AIDS testing, and mail.

Chapter 4 of the book "Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government," by Corey Brettschneider is presented. It highlights the account of the right to privacy or what is called the decisional autonomy, the individuals' right to a sphere of intimate decision making that is free from state coercion and public scrutiny. It defines the broad forms that distinguish the decisions protected by the right to privacy from those which subject to legitimate coercion.

Chapter four of the book "Freedom's Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children," by David L. Tubbs is presented. It examines some legal disputations in which the interests of children are more blatant than they were in the cases involving the right to privacy for the reason to document a peculiar incompatibility in the characterization of children in different First Amendment cases. An overview of the relevant constitutional issues is presented.

Chapter three of the book "Freedom's Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children," by David L. Tubbs is presented. It reviews some cases settled by the U.S. Supreme Court which include Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird, and Carey v. Population Services International. It identifies various interests of children that the Supreme Court ignored when it formulated the right to privacy and cancelled various laws relating to the use, sale and distribution of contraceptives in the country.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one on the debate on Anglophone political philosophy after World War II, one on the fake attractiveness of contemporary feminism in children, and one on several decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court in establishing the right to privacy.

Chapter 5 of the book "History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In," edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg and Lawton R. Burns is presented. It explores the conflict concerning the public-health practice of surveillance in the U.S. It discusses how the concept of privacy was shaped and changed by the nature of clinical and scientific authority in 20th century.

Chapter II, part II of the book "Public Opinion," by Walter Lippmann is presented. It explores the history of the notion of privacy and the naval and diplomatic censorship, with reference to the American attack. It outlines the progress of the furious struggle between the French and German soldiers around Fort de Douaumont, an advance element of the old defensive organization of Verdun. Moreover, it cites that privacy is insisted on all kinds of places of public affairs.

Chapter 14 of the book "365 Answers About Human Resources for the Small Business Owner: What Every Manager Needs to Know About Workplace Law," by Mary B. Holihan is presented. It notes the importance of keeping the employee records in private to protect the employee's right to privacy. It highlights the need of employers to prohibit drug and alcohol use and possession in the workplace to protect the company and its employees performance impaired by drugs or alcohols.

The article discusses privacy laws that affect U.S. public agencies. These include the Federal Social Security Privacy Act of 1974 covering requests by government agencies seeking Social Security numbers (SSns) disclosures, the Privacy Protection Act that requires government agencies to maintain only relevant and necessary personal information and explain the purpose for collecting the data and Right to Financial Privacy Act that requires federal agencies to notify the purpose for the disclosure and the opportunity to challenge the disclosure in court.

The article focuses on privacy laws affecting commercial transactions. The U.S. Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) has a rule banning the transmission of unwanted advertisements to fax machines. It cites the Federal Cable Communications Policy Act that requires cable television operators to give their annual data collection, the Federal and State Video Privacy Protection Act that gives a person the right to restrict personal information disclosure and a state law banning the recording of personal information on a credit card transaction form.

This chapter focuses on the required confidentiality of psychological information acquired from conducting fitness-for-duty evaluations among law enforcement officers. The decision of the Supreme Court in the case Jaffee v. Redmond is detailed. Confidentiality is defined as the maintenance of written or verbal information from which some people or institutions are excluded. The ethical principles governing psychologists are highlighted. The diverse professional roles of police psychologists are described.

Chapter 5 of the book "The Price of Rights: The Courts, Government Largesse, and Fundamental Liberties" is presented. It focuses on the right to privacy and the place of abortion in the privacy debate. Instance of privacy rights in the U.S. Constitution are noted, and the issue of abortion in the U.S. Supreme Court cases Roe v. Wade, Maher v. Roe, and Harris v. McRae is discussed. The case Wyman v. James which deals with welfare rights and other cases related to privacy rights are cited.

Chapter two of the book "Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm," by Jean L. Cohen is presented. It addresses the argument that gays and lesbians, who appealed for privacy right, to secure legal protection against persecution. It highlights the significance of legal privacy analysis in understanding personal autonomy, ethical pluralism, and civic equality.

Chapter one of the book "Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm," by Jean L. Cohen is presented. It addresses the controversy over the constitutionalized privacy rights in the U.S. Supreme Court cases Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird, and Roe v. Wade. The author explores the theoritical issues of the debates in political and legal theory ovee the privacy justification for reproductive rights.

This chapter discusses issues concerning the right of gays to secrecy with regard to their identity. The question of telling is so central to the experience of gays and lesbians. It is first through meeting other gay people that the possibility of speaking presents itself. One thing that characterizes a gay man is that he is a person who is confronted by a decision to tell or not to tell what he is. One's relation to this secret and to the different ways of managing it in differing situations is one of the characteristics of gay life.

The article provides an overview of U.S. court cases pertaining to conflicts on rights to family privacy. Alabama Judge Charles Nice ruled that he would not grant the request of a pregnant 17-year-old for an abortion. A court granted certiorari to consider the question of whether patient Nancy Cruzan has a right under the constitution which would require the hospital to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from her under the circumstances.

The article provides an overview of U.S. court cases about the right to family privacy. Estelle Griswold of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut and medical professor C. Lee Buxton were arrested and charged with giving information, instruction and medical advice to married persons on means of preventing contraception. Physician Leroy Carhart, who performs abortion in a clinical setting, brought a lawsuit seeking a declaration that the Nebraska statute violates the Federal Constitution.

Discusses the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution as they apply to issues in sport and physical activity. Difference between the rights found in the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments; Discussion of the balancing of privacy rights versus the need of a school district to provide safe learning conditions; Description of the difference between substantive and procedural due process.

This article presents information on data protection and encryption. Unless the information is protected by the armour plating of high security encryption and the communication practices of every individual involved in securing that message are both laid down and acted upon as fundamental laws, the message will be public. The setting in which the security manager and their organisation find themselves can actually be defined as two environments, the global environment and the task or local environment. Each has a distinct effect on the shape of his or her role. The book "The Codebreakers," discusses all these data security aspects. This book has been very much focused upon the technical element of the security environment.

The article provides a case study of international banking secrecy laws and practices during criminal investigations. The article focuses on the case of Raul Salinas, a Mexican businessman charged with murder and money laundering, and a customer of Citibank's Mexico Team. Details of charges against Salinas are provided. The article discusses ethical aspects of a bank executive's cooperation in the criminal investigation of customers. Law and regulations governing offshore banking secrecy is outlined.

Chapter 11 of the book "Cellular Connection" is presented. It explores the security and safety of using a cellular phone in the sense of maintaining the usual standard while on the road and traffic conditions. It discusses ways on how to improve the safety of using cellular phone, which includes the privacy laws to protect cellular telephone conversations. It also mentions several phone devices such as numeric assignment module (NAM).

Chapter Fourteen of Part Four of the book "The Ethics of Homelessness," edited by G. John M. Abbarno is presented. It highlights some concepts of liberalism which can be applied to the rights of homeless persons. It explores the application of the right to privacy to these individuals and the responsibility of the government to protect the citizens from homelessness.

Presents the author's experience as a young physician in dealing with patient privacy and secrets. Views on the reputation of medical students and doctors in handling medical records; Problems encountered in being a physician; Lessons learned about the entitlements of medical practice.

The article focuses on the fundamental democratic rights of citizens such as the right to privacy, the right to welfare and the right to private property. It states the core values that are outlined in the value theory of democracy including the equality of interest, political autonomy and reciprocity. It adds that the core values and the democratic rights serve as a means of measuring the legitimacy of actual democracies.

The article provides information about the rights of the clients or patients of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. According to the author, patients are entitled to be treated in a humane and dignified way, with full respect to personal dignity, right to privacy, right to personal property and civil rights. They also have the right to freedom from physical or mental abuse or harm, as well as the right to a written treatment plan.

This address was given as part of the rally and press conference held on January 9, 1990, in Jefferson City, the state capital of Missouri, calling for the repeal of subsection 3 of Missouri's Sexual Misconduct Law. Said section prohibited private, consenting sexual activity between adults of the same gender and had been targeted for repeal by the Privacy Rights Education Project, which organized a lobby day on January 9. Thomas was at this time the editor of the Lesbian and Gay News-Telegraph, the principal gay newspaper in Missouri. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses the progress and decline of political rights and civil liberties in Macao, Portugal as of January 1998. Citizens of Macao lack the democratic means to change their government and had no voice in the 1987 Joint Declaration ceding control to China in 1999. The governor is appointed by Portugal, and only one third of the legislature is directly-elected. The government owns a controlling interest in the television and radio stations, although opposition views are generally aired. Women increasingly hold administrative posts but are underrepresented in politics. Legislation protecting workers who stage strikes from dismissal is inadequate..

A definition of the term "sensitive data" is presented. It refers to the personally identifiable information (PII) that is protected in special ways by law or policy.

A definition of the term "Safe Harbor Principles" in computer security is presented. The term refers to a series of directives for harmonizing privacy protection practices between the U.S. and the European Union.

An encyclopedia entry for Online Personal Privacy Protection Act is presented. The act is a proposed U.S. legislation regulating the privacy of information collected from individuals on the Internet.

An encyclopedia entry for "Data Protection Act (DPA) 1984/1998" is presented. It is a British Act of Parliament which provides a legal basis for the privacy and protection of data of British citizens and businesses. In 1998, the DPA was amended to take account of the European Commission (EC) Data Protection Directive, which attempted to harmonize various European national laws across the whole EC.

An encyclopedia entry for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act is presented. This Act, which became effective on April 21, 2000, deals with the online collection of personal information from children under 13. It defines what a Web site operator must include in a privacy policy, when and how to seek verifiable consent from a parent and what responsibilities an operator has to protect the privacy and safety online of children.