What are my privacy rights on the internet and who/what government affliation is allowed to view the data i send/receive. This is a topic i can't find any clear questions about and is the first on the yahoo answers page. Can anyone direct me to a professional site that states what rights i do have. Thank u.
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I would say that whenever you transmit something out into the world where anyone can pick it up you have virtually no privacy rights at all.  This would include the internet, CB radio, amateur radio and cell phones.  If you do not like this notion, then do not use these things. Imagine if Howard Stern started yapping about his privacy rights concerning things he said on the radio.
35518
Your child has NO right to privacy.  Any privacy you give your child is a respect that he or she has earned from you, not a right that they are given.  It's the parent's job to know what's going on even when the kid doesn't want you to and to try to guide them even when they don't want it.
241748
Everyone has the right to privacy ... irregardless of who we are and how much you earn.  Just the price of privacy rockets for stars as oppose to ordinary joe.  Its only fair, you pay them so much to be seen, they have to pay others to leave them alone.   The world is fair ... ;)
209197
As individuals we have rights. We have a right to privacy, and this include our DNA. Besides why would the government want to keep track of something so personal for everyone in the country. \n\nBesides, the government has a bad track record of cover ups and basically not playing above the board, how could they (the government)expect us (he people) to trust them with such sensitive information. As far AS I AM CONCERNED I BELIEVE THEY WOULD DO SOMETHING UNETHICAL WITH THE INFORMATION, LIKE CLONING TO BREED SOME SORT OF GOD KNOWS WHAT. THAT'S WHY THEY SHOULD NOT BE PRIVY TO EVERYTHING. ITS LIKE INVITING STRANGERS INTO YOUR BEDROOM, OR IN THIS CASE, YOUR BODY. ITS JUST NOT A GOOD IDEA!
401051
Say what You will on the Yahoo, I'll always support freedom of speech no matter the content and how much I agree or disagree; it's a right of free People to voice themselves! I've had many violations because someone doesn't like my spiel, too bad for me; but so what? Look where we are and consider how little this crap really impacts anything, it's all just so much chatter anyway! Try and have fun with it, if Your truly a serious Person this is probably not the medium to enlighten or learn upon; it's full of People like me; who really don't give a flying rat's donut one way or the other. God Bless Missy!!
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First of all thanks because you gave us informations about what browser are you using. Some ppl just say that they need help without giving us information about their system.\n\nIt is quite simple so just go to Internet Explorer (Microsoft's browser) - tools - privacy and choose "middle".
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http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/uk/privacy/cgi_feedback \n\ngo to this address and submit your question. They are generally pretty quick to respond to you. Have a back up email address they can reply to...
562324
Where do you get your information?  You say you're a messenger (in your profile).  A messenger of God?  Does He talk to you?\n\n[EDIT]  Why don't you use the "add details" key and put your answers to our questions here on the board - rather than privately e-mailing us?  You say (in your e-mail) you are a messenger of God with a lot of info we (people) need to know, but you're not specific.  What do we need to know?  Put your answer here on the board, please; your message will spread faster.  How can we take you seriously?!!
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You want to know what *your* rights are while you're on *my* property??\n\nInteresting question.\n\nYou need to tell people what state you're in, but don't expect any golden eggs here.  If you're on someone else's land, what "extra" rights do you think you're going to have that you wouldn't have anywhere else?
441323
There never was a such thing as privacy, Mack. The government has all kinds of information about you and I. As long as we have a social security number, the government can literally bring up a whole mountain of information on anybody in an instant. So, really the bill of rights protects civil liberties to an extent. You can say what you want as long as it is true, otherwise it's slander and you can be sued, and you can have the right to an attorney paid for by the courts, but you only get a public defender.
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If you are living at home, you do not have the right to privacy!  You likely are not providing the home, the utilities, the groceries, the upkeep and maintenance or anything else associated with the home.  Further, your parents are probably purchasing most, if not all, of your clothing, make up, accessories and on and on.  Do you drive yet?  If so, did you provide your own car or did your parents provide you with one?\n\nResponsible parents KNOW that their children don't tell them everything ~ they were teens once, too.  They also know that it is a very different world than the one we grew up in and kids need a lot more protection.\n\nSure, there were dangers in the world when we were teens, but there were no internet predators, there wasn't near as much kidnapping of children and teenagers, children and teenagers, regardless of gender, being sold into sex slavery and any of the other things that teenagers think will "never happen to me." \n\nThe truth is that none of the ones in your age group that HAVE had it happen to them ever thought it would happen to them, either, but it did.\n\nSo what if he read an email about a guy you liked.  Don't you think he knows you are going to like guys?  You're making a big issue out of something that is no issue at all and, frankly, you're acting like a spoiled little princess about the issue, too.  Sorry, but truth is truth.\n\nAgain, you do not have the right to privacy as long as you are living in your parents' home.  I agree with all the other people who have said they wish more Dad's were like your Dad.\n\nInstead of being overly defensive, demanding "rights," and whining about something as trivial as this, why don't you be grateful that you have parents who are able to provide you with a computer, who are able to keep a roof over your head and food on the table, who love you enough to say "tough cookies" to you and "invade your privacy."\n\nYou want privacy?  Get a job, move out, be completely self-supportive and ask no one for anything.  Then, and only then, do you have the right to privacy.\n\nAs far as the answers on here that say what your Dad is doing is illegal?  Chances are they, too, are teenagers who think they are owed anything they want.\n\nNone of you are "owed" a darned thing!  What you have is by the grace of your parents or other family members providing it to you.  YOU, on the other hand, owe respect to those who provide for you.\n\nIf you were mine and threw a fit about me looking into your computer (which I definately would do) or looking through your bedroom (which I would do), then I would make life very easy for you by removing the computer.  Complain enough, and I would remove your bedroom door.  Continue to complain, and I would remove all extras, such as make up, hair styling equipment and supplies, one by one until you got the message.\n\nHere's the message:  Go to your Dad.  Apologize for overreacting to his CARE and LOVE for you.  Tell him you understand that what he is doing is done out of love for you.  Start respecting and stop demanding.\n\nLastly, you wouldn't be so upset if you weren't hiding something.  You know, I know it, and you can be very assured your Dad knows it.  Teenagers think they are so clever; but, as parents, we see right through you.  Sometimes we stop your behaviors if we think you can be seriously harmed by them.  Other times, we just sit back and feed you enough rope to hang yourselves so that you can learn a lesson the hard way.\n\nADD ON:  See?  My point proven exactly.  No sooner is my answer posted than I see you shouting (using all caps) at people, telling them to give you reasonable answers.\n\nMost of the answers ARE reasonable.  YOU are the one being unreasonable, sweetie.  You are a 13 year old **CHILD** and you are screaming at adults who are trying to help you understand?\n\nOf course you cannot go out and obtain a job and a car .
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It is private. We have privacy laws. You could get some maybe but not all.\n\nIt happens if that is what you want to know.
324484
OK, first, I totally disagree with your premise regarding human rights.  I don't even think you understand the term.  But I want to address the question about Yahoo:\n\nYahoo has a right to withdraw anything here if it wants to FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY WANT.  It is THEIR site.  They own it.  They allow you to write on it, but they can remove things if they want.  That's how a free country works.  If it is yours, you can do what you want with it.  \n\nIf I wrote things on YOUR website, YOU would have a right to remove things that you didn't like.  Why is that so hard to understand?  You do NOT have any right to publish on someone else's website.  You have a right to publish on your own site and the site of anyone who CHOOSES FREELY to allow you to post on theirs.  YOU DO NOT OWN YAHOO!!!!
191159
Well as much as you or indiatimes doesn't think it breaks privacy, Yahoo! does. Having a feature that "Follows" a user is not something a giant chat network wants to have to deal with, so they don't include it. The qualifications for these things are debatable, as you surely know. Indiatimes doesn't have to worry about losing users in a case where it becomes a big deal. Yahoo! definitely does.\n\nSo the only thing left for you to do is ask him.
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you cant know.. because yahoo consider it as own privacy
223244
Yes, when you go to post it will say at the bottom under Options: Public Private or Friends.  Chose private, and no matter what you have it on... if you're logged in.. YOU can see any post you make
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I'd rather not put up too much personal information on a website where just anyone could see it.  Although my answers will reveal some information about me, I've taken care to not give any really personally identifying information.