Topic > The Pros and Cons of Facebook Privacy - 1663

It's not a technological problem, it's a legal problem. In Facebook & Your Privacy, the author points out that "In the United States, online privacy laws are weaker than those in Europe and much of the world, so you have few federal rights to see and control most of the information you social networks collect about you.”(Facebook & Your Privacy) I find numerous legal cases of Facebook privacy issues in the European Union, however, I only find several cases in the United States. Since the privacy law is one of the fundamental laws in the EU, Europeans pay attention to their privacy. On the other hand, the absence of a federal privacy protection law in the United States. Courts must recognize that in the age of technology, people enjoy both virtual privacy and physical privacy. People should be able to control their data, regardless of where it is stored. People should be able to make decisions about the security and privacy of that data. Congress and the Supreme Court should establish a comprehensive legal system of Internet privacy, just as the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that recording a telephone conversation was a Fourth Amendment search, requiring a