¶ … protection of personal rights. For instance, in the case of the U.S. Supreme Court on Griswold V. Connecticut, married couples should have the rights to privacy when it comes to birth control. PROTECTING THE RIGHTS TO PRIVACY

Imagine the state telling people how many children they can have, what birth control methods they can use, and blasting the personal information of individuals on the television, computer, radio and etc. Personal information about what diseases, medical health, salaries, how many times an individual has been married, how many divorces, and other personal rights should be protected by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Should the state laws have the ability to give personal information to others? Should companies or individuals have the right to get personal information about a person off the computers? What should individuals do to keep their privacy?

In Connecticut, it is a crime for a person to use any drug or article to prevent conception (Caselaw 1). The statute of Connecticut states, "Any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned" (Caselaw 2). Imagine being fined because a person wanted to prevent pregnancy. "We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights - older than our operating system, Internet service provider, or the site they clicked from. We use this data to determine the total number of site visits and the average level time visitors spend at the site" (Human 1). People are able to get information from cookies or other technologies. This is private information about an individual, but this information is passed on to others. Electronic mail, web surfing, and other online resources open the door to a whole world of computerized communication that often others can easily get including the different information about the use of credit cards and whether the people pay their bills on time or even if a person wanted to order various products (CPSR 1). Whose business is it that an adult takes? Should not various areas of the computer be private? Does the person have rights regarding what they look at on the computer?

Many individuals do not want others having their private information about different aspects of their lives. The federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 has created the opportunity for a person to balance his/her rights to privacy with various financial institutions' need to share information (FDIC 1). The FDIC's Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs recommends reading the fine print of the statements that a person receives and responding to the directions they offer for them not to give out private information. "Some (but not all) financial institutions share this information with other entities - including completely unaffiliated companies such as retailers, telemarketers, airlines and non-profit organizations - to help them target consumers who might be interested in their products or programs" (Fdic 2). The new law requires companies to tell a person about the information that it shares. Secondly, if the companies share this information with companies not related to them, they have…