In a column for The Huffington Post, Hemanshu Nigam opines that 2013 will be “The Year of Privacy on Steroids.” After attending last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show, Nigam writes, “With so many new sites, gadgets and technology offerings integrating social media into their core functionalities, legislators will be hungry to regulate and legislate.” With rapid growth in technology and the Internet, “we are seeing the introduction of new legislation that impacts our private lives.” The Video Privacy Protection Act was recently signed by President Obama, the Location Privacy Protection Act and amendments to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Nigam notes.
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