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One of the biggest concerns in the United States of America today is privacy. For its citizens, this concern is due mostly in part to new developments in technology and big data collection. Yes, this technology and data collection is beneficial for American citizens and is a step in the right direction for humankind, but to what extent? The CQ Researcher article titled, “Big Data and Privacy” by Tom Price answers just that question. More specifically, a monumental factor for technological advancement this article explains is the use of personal information by the producers of new technology and the collection of big data in this day in age. What makes this debate on the violation of privacy through the use personal information by businesses, as well as, the general population, is that big data collection is the staple of technological advancement and serves as a convenience for Americans. Although big data collection and technology serves as an extreme benefit in relation to convenience and societal advancement for those who use and consume it, how far will scientists, researchers, businesses, and the government push before it becomes a violation our privacy as citizens of the United States of America?

     ?Americans increasingly seem to agree that Congress should save them from the worst excesses of online profiling.? (www.britannica.com) A poll conducted in March for Business Week magazine showed that 57% of the respondents said that the government should pass laws that modify how personal information could be collected and used on the

America was founded of the ideals of free speech and equality, but if one tries to exercise these rights to the fullest extent, one’s privacy would be jeopardized. The purpose

Crawford and Schultz (2014) summarized Big Data as “a generalized, imprecise term that refers to the use of large data sets in data science and predictive analytics (p. 96). The various sources of retrieving and generating information has expanded and exposed its vulnerability, especially to health data. A single breach holds risks of sharing critical information from a multitude of patients’ records. Predictive privacy harms, which are collected information that centers on individual data behaviors, have the potential to sidestep existing antidiscrimination regulations, but also lead to privacy breaches in healthcare (Crawford & Schultz, 2014). In the U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones there were concerns expressed about invasions of privacy that could result in direct collection of large amounts of personal information through Global Position System (GPS) monitoring. This type of governmental power is vulnerable to abuse, endangerment of privacy rights of citizens, and weaken trust in the government (Crawford & Schultz, 2014). Crawford and Schultz (2014) state that John Locke and William Blackstone defined liberty, as it pertains to an individual, as an “unabridged natural right follow his or her own will”. (p.111) In a sense, if an individual believes privacy fits the bill, then it should be respected and left alone. Big Data faces many obstacles when it comes to the topic of privacy. The question of how to correctly respond to each challenge may vary, but success can come if both just and achievable protections are present for those at risk for this type of

There are several positive uses of big data including the development of more accurate weather prediction systems, research and production of self-driving vehicles, making cities smarter, and collecting more data during exercise in order to train in the most efficient way. The essential item in keeping this straight is striving to develop policies that reflect our ideals and then implementing it. This falls on the shoulders of the government. Minimizing the gap between the implementation and policy can be achieved through various venues. Transparency is of paramount importance when dealing with surveillance and entrusting other entities with personal information. If any person is being spied on or having information collected, they should know about it and of course it should be legal. Google as a service is a good example. Although using Google’s services are “free” to use, it sells our personal information to other companies for surveillance capitalism and marketing. Google should have an agreement or make it clearly known that this is what is happening and then provide an option to pay for its services directly and not disclose user’s information. Additionally, companies that participate in such behaviors should be legally bound with well-defined terms and be regularly

The quest for privacy and security has always been a long and arduous one, as America’s citizens “no longer care” about the lack of integrity which the American government is showing towards its citizens (Sullivan). “When you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it’s gone do you wish you’d done more to protect it.” Sullivan explains in Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?. After the National Security Agency was accused of “systematically collecting information” on citizens’ phone calls, emails, and countless other sources, “the news media treated it as a complete revelation” (Whitehead). People throughout the country protested and condemned the government—all while they failed to realize that we have consciously permitted the government to collect and secure our private information by “giving our personal information” to companies who ask for it, and by “allowing our personal lives to be posted on media sources such as Facebook and Twitter” (Washington). Ironically enough, we ourselves have

“A Surveillance Society,” written by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey makes you conscious to the fact that in the society we live in today, you and your personal information are almost always being recorded, analyzed, and stored. Most people are aware of cameras in public places, but cease to see that they are being monitored in places such as banking accounts and health records. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the USA PATRIOT Act was passed to give the government permission to go increase their accessibility to citizens private records. There is many citizens that were compliant with exchanging privacy for the extra protection against terrorist and criminals. There is an abundance of citizens that are against the act as well, because

Even though “big data” is very valuable and has made many great gains for society in both efficiency and knowledge, with the increase in data collection and analytics there are many ethical concerns of how the data is being used because evidence based decision making within the analytics is often done solely on quantitative information, this creates digital inequity. Comparing and examining the works of Socrates and Martin Luther King Jr., we can develop our own ethical belief regarding some of the analytics used with “big data”.

Most Americans across the nation are skeptical and do not believe in the fact that all their personal information is secure in the hands of the government. According to this informational article “Eight in ten Americans believe the public should be concerned about the

Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy argues that, “Recent advances in technology threaten people’s privacy daily and have reduced the amount of control over personal data and has opened up the possibility of a range of negative consequences as a result of access to personal data” (van de Hoven, Blaauw, Pieters, Warnier). One of the major ones is identity theft which is an ongoing threat as long as technology expands and advances. As quickly as a problem is solved then a new one has arrived, it’s an endless battle that worries the American people. Not only is or privacy at stake, our livelihood and future are too.

Camp, a director of Security Informatics program, assistant professor of Telecommunication and computer science in Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, argues how the United States has put into a lot of effort to assure the right to privacy, yet there is no certainty that it is protecting people browsing the internet. The article continues, stating that internet browsing has no legal protection in the United States, making it easy for people to spy on each other’s lives and steal personal information. The article questions the value of privacy and confidentially when it comes to the internet. For example, when people research something or create an account in the internet that includes providing personal information to the site such as your birthdate, occupation, and interests that personal information is distributed and accessed to companies or third parties to use at their advantage. In some case the information is often used to personalize advertisements when you are on the internet or in other situations the information is used to steal one’s identity. In this article we are able to see how technology is powerful by itself without the control of government regulations. The article encourages the readers to question existing laws that protect our privacy and security as there is no boundaries in the internet to prevent people from hacking into your personal

“What lingered was an understanding of the United States as a "surveillance society’: a new kind of social organization with the collection and scrutiny of personal data as its basic feature” (Igo, 2015). The government was and is always watching; no policy can change these privacy problems. As

Business thrive when they have the most accurate, up-to-date, and relevant information at their disposal. This information can be used for a plethora of pertinent markers in small and large businesses, relating to accounting, investments, consumer activity, and much more. Big data is a term used to describe the extremely large amounts of data that floods a business every day. For decades, big data has been a growing field, facing controversy on many levels, but as of late, it has been a major innovator in the challenge of making businesses more sustainable. Big data is often scrutinized for its over-generalization and inability to display meaningful results at times. When applied correctly, data analysis can bring earth-altering information to the table.

As we live our everyday lives day to day, data is being gathered from each and every one of us; often without our consent or realization. Data is being gathered constantly when we subscribe to magazines, when we use coupons, when we use our credit cards and when we browse the Internet. Following the 9/11 attacks, the government and law enforcement proposed to develop an airline traveler screening program that would consolidate these pieces of consumer data information. It was not implemented due to its controversial nature. However, privacy and civil liberty advocates are constantly questioned, “What are you afraid of? What do you have to hide? If you haven 't done anything wrong, what 's there to worry about?". They insinuate that data is harmless, but according to law professor, Jeffrey Rosen’s book The Unwanted Gaze, you are not your profile. These datasets can contain errors. Furthermore, its misuse and revelation of information to strangers can lead to misjudgment, wrong conclusions and violations of privacy rights. In this paper, I am working on the topic of privacy in data mining operations as it relates to Kaplan’s call to balance public interest and privacy rights. The 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case, Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. was decided on the grounds of free speech, contrary to the presumption of health data confidentiality (Kaplan, 2014). Thus, this case aids us in the understanding that there is a need to protect sensitive information, along with

If big data was to be widely implemented into society then companies will use any source of information and use it without any prejudice. Any information that big data can get its hand on will most likely be used no matter how sensitive it is. With big data, society will have preconceived ideas about an individual based on the correlation of the individual’s characteristic and other people who have the same characteristics. The article “They’re Watching You at Work” highlights an instance when the language and behavior of programmers was used to evaluate their skill. The study found a correlation between using certain phrases and words with writing good code. So then by looking