What is privacy protection on the Law?

While currently there is no national law to protect the privacy of the information you share online, federal law and state law do offer some protection to various kinds of personal information collected about you. At the national level, Congress has enacted laws as it perceived the need to arise. Therefore, you will see from the list below that you have privacy rights in specific kinds of information—information maintained about you in the health care system, your education records, the record of your video rentals, to name a few.

At the same time, the states have exercised their strong interest in protecting their citizens as consumers, patients, students and participants in civic life. Some states have enacted protections beyond those provided in national law; others offer more limited protection.

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