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Online Privacy Issues In Australia

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Evaluation of regulations in different country
Although the legislation of privacy issue is generally different in Australia, America and France, there are some basic rules. For example, people have the rights to be respect for their private, home or other personal information. Everyone is lawful to decide the extent to disclose personal information about themselves on social media, they have the rights to require the third parties to remove individual information about them, if the source is collected and posted by others online ((ICCPR), 1976. Article 17).
In Australia, social regulation seems much more effective than law legislation. As a child's Guardian, it is hard to define whether they break the privacy law when they sharing their children’s …show more content…

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule did well protect of children in disclosing personal information and collecting for business usage by commercial websites. As it regulations, the privacy of child under the 13 is basically held and control by their parents, who stand as the protectors. The parents have the rights to determine whether to collect and use the personal information about their child. The rule allows parents to know, access, review and delete the information about their child’s online (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 1998). Ironically, a lengthy “digital profile” of children shared by their parents on social media. The issue turns into how to protect children's privacy from the information their parents shared on the social media (ALRC Report 108, 2008, …show more content…

In terms of moral and ethical consideration, it has both views. On one side, the uploading anecdotes help to stay in touch and short the distance with relatives and friends. It also builds a community that allows people to share parenting advice, get some practical tips to educate the baby. On the other sides, parents also recognize the drawbacks of oversharenting their child on social media. The photos and video in children’s young ages could be the potentially embarrassing that troubles them in the future, while the exposed identity information also raises the risk of irreparable harm to the children (Matthew,

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