Question

Imagine that you work for an agency that has the responsibility of making new regulations to protect privacy on the internet. Think through how Congress, the President and appointees, interest groups, and the public are going to try to influence your efforts.

Answer 1

Protecting privacy on the internet is becoming very hard nowadays. The Internet is a web where unknowingly we are becoming insects. What we search, what we upload and what we share everything is getting recorded and sometimes it can be used against us, if we are having bad luck. So if I'm working for an agency that has the responsibility of making regulations to protect privacy on the internet, obviously there will be some external influence in it. Because few people may not get benefitted because of this.

If Congress, the president, and appointees support this, then there will be some concessions and help rendered for my agency. They may offer some subsidies or tax reduction. But if they are against it, say for example several governments want to tap their citizens and other country's people for their own benefits and security purpose too. So they may not like this idea. So they may negotiate with the agency to reduce the protection by offering a bribe or threatening them that false complaints on the agency may be recorded.

But interest groups and people will support the agency. So they may render some ideas to us directly. The voting campaign can be done and results of that may support protection of privacy on the internet. They may even spread the importance of privacy with the help of videos, lectures, campaigns, etc. So it will boost our interests in creating regulations to protect privacy on the internet.