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Privacy

Quick points to remember
• Right to Privacy is a fundamental right

• A number of privacy laws have been enacted
• With technology and media, maintaining privacy has become difficult!
• A number of privacy scandals have been reported.
• 81% of the population is scared of privacy invasion on the internet.
• 15.4 million consumers had identity theft in 2016
• Tracking and hacking everywhere!

Introduction
Privacy is one's right to be in his own space without being questioned about it
whether it's our body privacy, our personal information or any other confidential
information which we intend to keep private.
Everybody has the right to privacy and every government has laws to maintain the
privacy of its residents.
The right to privacy is included in the constitution of 150 countries.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights also includes the Right to privacy in its
article 12.
But how many of us are actually able to maintain that privacy?

Recent issues
• Today sadly about 81% of the population is scared of privacy breaches and
cyber-crimes. There are cases of blackmails, fraud calls, identity thefts etc.
• In 2009, 10000 email accounts on Hotmail suffered a privacy breach.
• In 2010 Google got 600 gigabytes of private unsecured data
• The street view feature of the Google maps has got many complaints about
privacy issues.

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