21) Many companies monitor what their employees are doing on the Internet to prevent them from wasting company resources on nonbusiness activities.
22) The claim to privacy is protected in the Canadian, U.S., and German constitutions in a in exactly the same way and in other countries through various statutes.
23) Right now Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta are the only provinces with privacy laws for the private sector that meet European Union standards.
24) In 2000, Parliament passed the
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
(PIPEDA), Canada's modern privacy law.
25) In Europe, privacy protection is much more accommodating than in many non-European countries.
26) A safe harbour is a private, self-regulating policy and enforcement mechanism that meets the objectives of government regulators and legislation but does not involve government regulation or enforcement.
27) Web sites use "cookies" in order to obtain the names and addresses of their visitors.
28) A cookie is a small file containing information about you and your Web activities that is deposited on your hard disk by a Web site.
29) Spyware is software that comes hidden in downloaded applications and can track your online movements.
30) Most Internet businesses do very little to protect the privacy of their customers.