Without these two Acts in place today in our country who knows what our privacy would be like when it comes to gaining access to records. These two Acts almost contradict one another because for The Freedom of Information Act it allows a much easier access to government information in executive branch agency records. This Act also goes beyond that and will give one permission to get access to veteran’s military information of veterans who were deceased on duty. The Privacy Act then makes it harder for an individual to obtain someone’s personal privacy records. This Act protects your privacy which can be great under certain circumstances. Both of these Acts have their pros and cons but under different circumstances does one provide more help
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The Privacy Act was passed in 1974 and finally became effective on September 25 of 1975. This Act was mainly passed because of an outgrowth of Watergate reforms and also because of the rapid growth of technology such as computers. The main thing that this Act is known for is that it restricts the disclosure of personal records, much opposite of what the Freedom of Information Act does. “The purpose of the Privacy Act is to balance the government’s need to maintain information about individuals with the rights of individuals to be protected against unwarranted invasions of their privacy stemming from federal agencies’ collection, maintenance, use, and disclosure of personal information about them” (Justice Information, 2017). This Act focuses on restricting disclosure of personal records, give more rights to agency records, ability to see one’s own record if they show it is false and the fourth and final one is establish a code of fair information …show more content…
Amazon.com. What this case was all about is a software program named Alexa that monitors the web pages and then gives related webpages to the viewer was storing and then transmitting information to third parties without consent from the users. “Plaintiffs claimed these practices violated the Privacy Act and constituted a common law invasion of privacy. In an April 19, 2001, order, the Court preliminarily approved a settlement agreement” (Privacy, 2010). The agreement was that Alexa were to delete four digits of each IP addresses that they had in their databases, add a privacy policy to their website, require customers to agree to having their data collected before they download the Alexa software and the final one was that Amazon had to pay 40 dollars to each customer that had data in the Alexa
The Privacy Act was passed in 1974 and finally became effective on September 25 of 1975. This Act was mainly passed because of an outgrowth of Watergate reforms and also because of the rapid growth of technology such as computers. The main thing that this Act is known for is that it restricts the disclosure of personal records, much opposite of what the Freedom of Information Act does. “The purpose of the Privacy Act is to balance the government’s need to maintain information about individuals with the rights of individuals to be protected against unwarranted invasions of their privacy stemming from federal agencies’ collection, maintenance, use, and disclosure of personal information about them” (Justice Information, 2017). This Act focuses on restricting disclosure of personal records, give more rights to agency records, ability to see one’s own record if they show it is false and the fourth and final one is establish a code of fair information …show more content…
Amazon.com. What this case was all about is a software program named Alexa that monitors the web pages and then gives related webpages to the viewer was storing and then transmitting information to third parties without consent from the users. “Plaintiffs claimed these practices violated the Privacy Act and constituted a common law invasion of privacy. In an April 19, 2001, order, the Court preliminarily approved a settlement agreement” (Privacy, 2010). The agreement was that Alexa were to delete four digits of each IP addresses that they had in their databases, add a privacy policy to their website, require customers to agree to having their data collected before they download the Alexa software and the final one was that Amazon had to pay 40 dollars to each customer that had data in the Alexa