Data Privacy in Trouble
All human beings have three lives: their public life, private life, and secret life. “The privacy landscape remains unstable, leaving organizations uncertain about their next steps.” Data Privacy Meets a World of Risk: A Landscape in Turmoil, by John C. Montana “When you go online, file an insurance claim or even eat out, you reveal personal information to strangers.” (How Private is your Private Life? Andrea Rock 683) Privacy is different to other countries and organizations and they are fighting to make data privacy laws suitable for themselves. Organizations want to keep information private so they are trying to make it stay that way, organizations are making their own moves to keep their data private in different ways that may work for them, and the future of data privacy is controlled by the actions all of the different organizations trying to fight for their own reasons.
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Companies even break the current laws in 2016 for their own gain. For example, “Facebook’s policies and practices violated EU data privacy law, and, thereby, so did the Safe Harbor Agreement, which permitted transfer of EU data from the EU to the United States under specified conditions.” (Montana) If a company violates rules on data transfer, they are on a road of uncertainty, some penalties could be “up to 4% of the company’s worldwide revenue.” (Montana) Most companies and and organizations want to steer clear of the authority of the DPA (data privacy authorities) because of its new concerning power. Since companies have relied on Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor to permit cross-border data to continue, they are now facing an even longer period of uncertainty since they are both in the