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About Privacy International

Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. We have campaigned across the world to protect people against intrusion by governments and corporations that seek to erode this fragile right. We believe that privacy forms part of the bedrock of freedoms, and our goal has always been to use every means to preserve it.

Privacy =from Latin privatus 'separated from the rest, deprived of sth, esp. office, participation in the government', from privo 'to deprive') is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. The degree to which private information is exposed therefore depends on how the public will receive this information, which differs between places and over time. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security — one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and another can become particularly clear

Privacy Laws & Business

Privacy Laws & Business - successfully helping organisations to integrate data protection and privacy law into good business practice since 1987.

Privacy Laws & Business provides an independent privacy laws information service to many of the world’s largest companies, specialist lawyers and has clients in over 45 countries. In the United Kingdom, the company provides services to help its private and public sector clients comply with both the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act. We show management why and how a positive response to the issues underlying privacy laws provides not only a competitive advantage, and a way of building and sustaining customer trust, but also a driver of their business strategy.

MIDTERM QUIZ

4. Your friend just told you that he is developing a worm to attack the administrative systems at your college. The worm is "harmless" and will simply cause a message - "Let's party!" - to be dispalyed on all workstations on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. By 4 p. m., the virus will erase itself and destroy all evidence of its presence. What would you say or do?

Ans=As a friend ,I will tell him that the harmless virus he developed to attack the administration system at my college is not good,although it is harmless,it cause disturbances.And that kind of virus will affect all of student in that college,and some computer will be damage or destroy if you continue your plan,and you will pay all damages you have done,because i will tell the police of what you have done,because it is not good.

3. You are the CFO (Chief Finance Officer) of a midsized manufacturing firm. You have heard nothing but positive comments about the new CIO (Chief Information Officer) you hired three months ago. As you observe her outline what needs to be done to improve the firm's computer security, you are impressed with her energy, enthusiasm, and presentation skills. However, your jaw drops when she states that the total cost of computer security improvements will be 300, 000 dollars. This seems like a lot of money for security, given that your firm has no major incident. Several other items in the budget will either have to be dropped or trimmed back to accommodate this project. In addition, the 300, 000 dollars is above your spending authorization and will require approval by the CEO. This will force you to defend the expenditure, and you are not sure how to do this. You wonder if this much spending on security is really required. How can you sort out what really needs to be done with out appearing to be micromanaging or discouraging the new CIO?

ANS=As a CFO I will call a meeting of all board of members of that kinds of problem because it is not an easy problem,the company spending much of money for computer security improvements,and 300,000 dollars is much spending,and we will have to get a permission to the CEO if he or she will approve of that big amount.And we will explain carefully to the CIO that we will not gave him the amount he request.Then, we gave him a money but not the amount he requested, maybe less of amount we gave it to him.