Bullying And Cyberbullying

The Internet is today’s encyclopedia. Information about any topic may be discovered with a quick type of a few keywords in a search bar and a click of the search button. The Internet often receives the world’s breaking news at the same time, or even before, as the major news networks. It has become the source that informs people about the current news; someone could find a billion articles about the breaking news within a few seconds. It also provides the user with convenience. For example, one may go directly to their desired article at any time instead of waiting for the scheduled news time and having to listen to all of the reports before hearing the one they wanted. The Internet is not only used to discover the recent news, it can also be used for research regarding history. The Internet may prove as a very valuable asset while writing a research paper on a specified topic on which you do not possess much knowledge. For example, the Internet would be advantageous to a student writing a research paper about black history and the civil right movement if the pupil had never heard of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Internet is not only used for productive reasons; it may also be used for recreational purposes. For example, one may go to YouTube and watch silly videos just for fun. Someone having such easy access to information is not always a good thing. In today’s time, people are careless about what they post on the Internet. Some people release their personal information like their full name, address, contact number, birthday, and social security number. Some may find disclosing this information harmless; however, the owner of this information may suffer dire consequences it enters the wrong hands. The exposure of this information puts the person at risk for identity theft. For example, someone’s credit may be ruined of the wrong person gets their person information. The Internet

In her article George Orwell…Meet Mark Zuckerberg, Lori Andrews discusses the privacy issue on internet. The issue involving Data aggregators that hack into our internet and use our personal information to sell to larger cooperation’s so they can advertise items to us. In this Article Andrews argues against the idea of cooperation’s going through someone personal internet history on what they have researched on and to use that information as a database for describing that person, creating another life on the internet. Andrews claims that if you were to get a loan, a job, a house or a credit card it would now work on web lining basically what you have put on your digital self, rather than your credit history it would depend on things like

Traditional bullying used to be more common back when there was no texting or social media. Bullying consistently takes place in person: the common actions often include teasing, taunting, humiliating, and sometimes showing acts of violence. Cyberbullying takes place online making it more humiliating and intolerable for the victim since the information doesn’t go away. They both equally cause the victim emotional distress and significantly lower their confidence while the bully feels more authoritative and quite satisfied. While the fear of getting bullied grows in the victim, they start to feel unsafe and decide not to go to school. All the students deserve to attend school without the fear of getting humiliated, harassed, or bullied, but what are the bystanders and teachers doing about bullying?

Time Newspaper has learnt that it's not surprising that Internet companies have electronic dossiers that contain personal information for individuals who subscribe to the websites. Generally, these companies have obtained the information from people based on individual's visit to the website, sent and received emails, tagged photos, and searches people carry out. However, the extent of personal information known by these Internet companies has remained largely unknown as well who they provide and/or sell this information to. However, Internet companies continue to gather lots of personal information from different people who focus on carrying out online activities on a daily basis. Currently, it's estimated that these firms gather personal information from nearly 500 million users but are hesitant to provide this information to the other firms or individuals. As their unwillingness to share has attracted significant congressional inquiry, things could finally change in California following the introduction of a bill that may force companies to disclose the kind of personal information they have gathered and how this information is being used.

“Privacy is dead – get over it”, according to Steve Rambam, a privacy investigator who specializes in Internet privacy cases, this is how he considers privacy to be in today’s society. He is just another entity living in the midst of a high technology society to whom privacy seems to be dead when reaching the Internet. With all the traffic on the Internet, the risk of private information falling into the wrong hands is excessive, and with all the advances in computer technology the rate of privacy loss is increasing as well. With the right knowledge and experience in technology anything on the Internet can be access by anyone causing an individual’s privacy to be exposed and violated..

Anyone who uses computer technology today accepts the fact that their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) may or could be transmitted, collected, and used to benefit the one who receives that information. It is our responsibility to know what PII transmissions are being made available for public use over the web. Understanding all the aspects of PII and the approaches that are to be taken to protect our privacy will make us more aware of PII. As we continue to utilize the technology available, we expose ourselves to become donors of PII. Having knowledge of what PII is and how information is being compiled to identify

Everybody blames advertising when it comes to personal information on the Internet. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. The Internet has become a very vulnerable place for hackers or people who stolen information for personal gain. According to NBC news, there was a 20-year-old woman, Amy Boyer who was stalked with the help of the Internet. The hacker/killer bought Boyer’s social security for $45 from a website. Boyer was murdered on Oct.15, 1999. The killer immediately committed suicide after the murder of Amy Boyer. Because of incidents like this, it’s so hard to grant total privacy.

I remember when people found phone numbers and addresses of other people by calling the operator or the phone company. The only numbers that were available were the ones of the people that had opted to list their name, number, and address. Nowadays, anyone almost anywhere can look up anyone’s phone number and address on the internet. But an even more alarming problem is that the owner of that information may or may not have approved for their information to be public. This is just a very small example of the power of the internet. It can be wealth of information and at the same time it can be very dangerous to have all of that information so easily accessible to anyone and everyone. With all of the positive beneficial impacts that the internet has brought to our world, it has also created easy

The various human facets of the Internet world; publishers, consumers, and advertisers must know where to draw the lines. We cannot leave the concept of privacy

Before starting this class, I was unaware of how much information was being collected in my digital life and online. Living in Arkansas, I had heard of Acxiom, but gave no thought to what their business was. I was unaware that my information is probably being mined on a daily basis by a company that is just down the road. Regrettably, I am not in the minority. According to the Pew Research Center, almost three-quarters of people interviewed think it is important to be in control of who collects their personal information, but most do not believe their information is safe, and almost half do not understand how much data is collected (Rainie, 2016). At the same time, Dougherty issues a challenge to his readers, “name every digital property that collects information from your web travels. I can’t with any certainty” (Dougherty, 2014). This tells us that even those regularly involved in the field may be as vulnerable to data collection as the rest of us.

While technology has advanced to previously unexperienced levels, our personally identifiable information is less secure now than ever before. Personally identifiable information can be best described as “data that could potentially be used to identify a specific person;” which includes information such as your date of birth, social

Information gathering, through networking, social media, and both on and offline storage have made it easier to collect information about an individual than ever before, with many concerns having arisen over the years about privacy and the ability to protect that privacy. As debates over personally identifiable information continue, one cornerstone remains a constant, ethics. Ethics are defined as “the standard by which human actions can be judged right and wrong (Online, 2012)”, but even that can be debated when discussed within the realm of information technology. Have you ever been to an internet shopping site and “trusted” the secure connection? Essentially, you are entrusting an inanimate system developed by an individual or group

Internet privacy is the security of a user’s personal data that is stored or published on the internet. The internet is an important part of every individual’s daily life. In today’s society, the internet is used by many different people for many reasons. It can be used for research, communication, and purchasing items. Without the internet, many things that are completed during the course of a day would be impossible or take time to complete. As people use the internet, everything is stored in a database that tracks and keeps any personal information that is entered by users. As users continue to use the internet to complete important tasks such as purchasing items and paying bills, their privacy and security become at risk. Although the internet can be seen to have a positive impact on society, it does have a negative impact. Since the internet can be accessed by anybody it can cause a lot of damage. Examples of internet risk include identity thieves, phasing, and scams. Due to things such as online shopping, banking and other e-commerce options, personal information is stored in the internet enabling many cybercrimes to occur. Cybercrimes are very similar to any regular crime; the crime just happens to take place on websites for criminals to hack and steal user’s information for their own personal benefit. Cybercriminals tend to attack users based on their emails, social media accounts, and web history because the most history about an individual is stored in those sites.

Privacy concerns on the web have become an undesirable consequence that people face with cyber technology. The ability of computers to gather and store unlimited amount of information from the internet raises privacy issues concerning an individual’s informational privacy. A person’s right to informational privacy is the ability to control the flow of their personal information, including the transfer and exchange of that information. An invasion of informational privacy denies people the right to control who accesses their personal information. Many internet users are unaware that they are more likely to compromise their privacy when using the internet services such as search engines and social networking sites. The internet provides access to an incredible amount of information from all over the world. Some internet users use the internet exclusively as a source of information while other internet users use the internet to create and disseminate information for others to use. However, the vast amount of information floating on the internet would not

collected can be very intrusive. People, however, enjoy surfing the internet and taking part in activities and games online. One of the top reasons that people enjoy the internet, if asked, is the secrecy that it says it provides. Unfortunately for those who enjoy that secrecy, companies have chosen to violate that freedom by gathering their personal data as these consumers browse and engage in online activities. Companies have started the trend of collecting such personal information from people as they innocently browse the internet in order to be able to advertise directly to the individual with customized products and services. Regrettably, for consumers, the notion of adopting unethical behaviors when extracting such information from their customers has become the norm. “Companies continually troll for, and exploit, personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information on the Internet” (Saarigarvi, Karjalutoto, & Kuusela, 2013, p. 56). The internet started as a place where one could go discover and interact without any invasion. Not only is the public losing their discretion from these type businesses, but also they are putting themselves at risk of their personal information being abused. The more websites a person gives their personal information to, the more likely that person will become a victim to possible data breach as well. In 2012, 267 million accounts were unprotected because of an online data breaches (Deighton & Quelch, 2009, p. 7).