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Sports and entertainment lawyers represent football players, movie stars and musicians in all aspects of their careers. Celebrities need lawyers to wade through dense contract language, negotiate endorsements and head off legal issues before they become public. This niche in the legal profession is becoming more prominent as celebrity... more »
When you apply for a job with an employer that considers your credit report as a part of the application process, you will be asked to sign a form giving the company permission to request your report. According to the Federal Trade Commission, companies cannot get your report without this permission. They may request it from one of... more »
Access to arrest records is a source of tension between privacy interests and the interests of potential employers and others. Arrest records are held by the responsible law enforcement agency, while criminal charge and conviction records are maintained by the controlling court. Procedures for obtaining these records depends on the... more »
Employers, landlords, lenders, insurance companies and academic institutions all conduct background checks on their applicants and customers regularly. They typically use a background check service that has licensed access to government databases about criminal records from both the federal and state governments. International... more »
Electronic check writing is a method for turning regular paper checks into electronically transmitted payments that can be verified quickly and leave a clearly legible electronic paper trail. They are particularly useful for businesses that take or send out many payments by check. It helps them to avoid wire transfer fees while... more »
Online privacy rights are granted to individuals through The Privacy Act of 1974 and are more particularly addressed in the Computer Fraud and... more »
What does privacy mean in the electronic age? To avoid an invasion of your privacy, it's important to determine exactly what your online privacy... more »
Millions of Americans talk on their telephones every day, taking for granted that no one is listening in on their conversation. If you are worried... more »
Invasion of privacy claims can arise under the Constitution and statutes protecting privacy rights. More commonly, however, invasion of privacy... more »
As technology improves and electronic eavesdropping becomes easier, it's important to know exactly what your privacy rights are, and when the... more »
Privacy (in 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.
The right against unsanctioned invasion of privacy by the government, corporations or individuals is part of many countries privacy laws, and in some cases, constitutions. Almost all countries have laws which in some way limit privacy; an example of this would be law concerning taxation, which normally require the sharing of information about personal income or earnings. In some countries individual privacy may conflict with freedom of speech laws and some laws may require public disclosure of information which would be considered private in other countries and cultures.
Privacy may be voluntarily sacrificed, normally in exchange for perceived benefits and very often with specific dangers and losses, although this is a very strategic view of human relationships. Academics who are economists, evolutionary theorists, and research psychologists describe revealing privacy as a voluntary sacrifice, where sweepstakes or competitions are involved. In the business world, a person may give personal det read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
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