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privacy  MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Friday December 13,
2013  Jump to: navigation, search  Consumer privacy laws and
regulations seek to protect any individual from loss of privacy
due to failures or limitations of corporate customer privacy
measures. They recognize that the damage done by privacy loss is
typically not measurable, nor can it be undone, and that
commercial organizations have little or no interest in taking
unprofitable measures to drastically increase privacy of
customers - indeed, their motivation is very often quite the
opposite, to share data for commercial advantage, and to fail to
officially recognize it as sensitive, so as to avoid legal
liability for lapses of security that may occur.  Consumer
privacy concerns date back to the first commercial couriers and
bankers, who in every culture took strong measures to protect
customer privacy, but also in every culture tended to be subject
to very harsh punitive measures for failure