Europe Zips Lips; U.S. Sells ZIPs.

Examines how Europe strictly controls how personal data can be used. How, in the U.S., collecting and selling personal data is a big and erratically regulated business; Examples of how personal information in the U.S. has been lost, stolen and sold to thieves; Europe's comprehensive national privacy laws and offices of data protection, which are led by privacy commissioners; Perception of privacy in Europe as a right; How these two systems for dealing with data arise from a cultural divide over privacy itself; Data collection in the U.S.; Background on privacy protection in Europe; Topic of data breaches and compromises.