Editing Right to privacy (section)

== Technology ==
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Private sector actors can also threaten the right to privacy{{snd}}particularly technology companies, such as [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], Facebook, Google, and [[Yahoo]] that use and collect [[personal data]]. These private sector threats are more acute due to AI data processing.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cofone |first1=Ignacio |title=The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy|url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/privacy-fallacy/547578F2A1AE0C40963105CE066B412E |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2023 |isbn=9781108995443 |location=New York }}</ref>

In some American jurisdictions, the use of a person's name as a keyword under Google's [[AdWords]] for advertising or trade purposes without the person's consent<ref>{{cite news|last=Fishman|first=Ross|title=Bad Precedent: Lawyer Censured for Buying Google Keywords for Other Lawyers and Law Firms|url=http://www.natlawreview.com/article/bad-precedent-lawyer-censured-buying-google-keywords-other-lawyers-and-law-firms|access-date=5 March 2014|newspaper=The National Law Review}}</ref> has raised certain personal privacy concerns.<ref>"[https://www.wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=93174 Robert L. Habush and Daniel A. Rottier, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William M. Cannon, Patrick O. Dunphy and Cannon & Dunphy, S.C., Defendants-Respondents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514064258/http://www.wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=93174 |date=2013-05-14 }}" (PDF). Case No.: 2011AP1769. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin Published Opinion. Opinion filed: 21 February 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2014.</ref> The right to privacy and social media content laws have been considered and enacted in several states, such as California's "online erasure" law protecting minors from leaving a digital trail. State laws, such as the CPPA in California, have granted more comprehensive protection.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-15 |title=California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) |url=https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa |access-date=2022-09-24 |website=State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General |language=en}}</ref>

However, the United States is behind that of European Union countries in protecting privacy online. For example, the "right to be forgotten" ruling by the EU Court of Justice protects both adults and minors.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zurbriggen|first1=Eileen L.|last2=Hagai|first2=Ella Ben|last3=Leon|first3=Gabrielle|title=Negotiating privacy and intimacy on social media: Review and recommendations.|journal=Translational Issues in Psychological Science|volume=2|issue=3|pages=248–260|doi=10.1037/tps0000078|language=en|year=2016}}</ref> The [[General Data Protection Regulation]] has made significant progress to protect privacy from these risks, and it has led to a wave of privacy and data protection laws around the world. 

Privacy is a major issue in the health care sector with technology becoming an essential component of it. Connecting personal data of patients to internet makes them vulnerable to cyber attacks. There are also concerns about how much data should be stored and who should have access to it.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Meingast |first1=Marci |last2=Roosta |first2=Tanya |last3=Sastry |first3=Shankar |title=2006 International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |chapter=Security and Privacy Issues with Health Care Information Technology |date=August 2006 |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4463039 |volume=2006 |location=New York, NY |publisher=IEEE |pages=5453–5458 |doi=10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260060 |pmid=17946702 |isbn=978-1-4244-0032-4|s2cid=1784412 }}</ref>