Computers, Society And Environment : Privacy Issues

Ever feel like you are being watched? How about having the feeling like some one is following you home from school? Well that is what it will be like if users do not have the privacy on the Internet they deserve. EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), a advocacy group that has been fighting the Clinton Administration for tougher online consumer protection laws, and other privacy protection agencies have formed to protect the rights and privileges of the Internet user. With the U.S. Government, EPIC has had to step in and help small companies and Internet users with their own privacy problems, hackers getting into their systems and ruining the networks, and crackers stealing and decrypting private

According to the Federal Trade Commission Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States of America. They estimated that 10 million people a year are victimized by the crime which comes out to about 19 people per minute are becoming victims of this crime. Given these extremely worrying statistics it has never been more important to be informed about the crime of identity theft and how to avoid it in your daily life especially as more schemes and ways to unknowingly forfeit your information are introduced with the prevalence of the World Wide Web (www, w3). More than just knowledge of the crime of identity theft it is also important to know what protections you can set to help protect your information. Also, given the amount of businesses and organizations, and the various vulnerabilities that their systems may have, that must have access and know significant information about your life it is also invaluable to understand how to recover from your information being lost. This paper will be used to inform about this growing crime including what identity theft is and the different types that exist, what information is most important to protect, what you can do to avoid it, how to recover from it and what that may entail, and how this applies to the field of computer science and what should be looked for when building systems, and different kinds of attacks that can happen.

The internet provides us with a vast amount of information right at our finger tips but manages to not display the negative effects that it has. The internet can be utilized in ways that assist our everyday lives as well as making simple tasks even easier. How has technology altered our daily lives? Individually there is an excessive reliance on technology to function daily, but has this adjustment been beneficial or are we positioning too much reliance on the Internet? Nevertheless, it is essential that we are cautious with how frequently our dependence is on the internet considering it is not as secure as it may appear. The value of our privacy requires a tradeoff that we must continue if the desired utilization our technology will continue.

In today’s world, Privacy and Security comes hand in hand with internet. Technology allows us free speech and freedom of information over the internet, by imposing strict laws and policies regulating the privacy and security of our information. According to Richard Clarke, free expression over the internet and its privacy are two sides of the same coin (Privacy and security(n.d.)). Writing blogs, uploading posts, comments or pictures on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, networking or sharing links on Linkedin are all considered as our free expression and its security is our right. Individual right to

One example of privacy issues was the famous National Security Agency (NSA) for their collection of, intelligence collection/information gathering of metadata of U.S. citizens which refers to cell phone records, call duration etc. NSA must

In more recent years, the issue around Internet privacy is something that has been brought to everyone 's attention. In today 's society everything is based around social media and online shopping. By doing this people are making their information easily accessible for people to use. People document their whole lives on social media making it much easier for people to find information, that some may consider private, about them. When people post a picture with a location attached to it they think it 's harmless but there is a lack of privacy that is allowing people to get hold of information they don 't want out there. It has become much easier for people to get information due to the new technological advances that have been made in the recent years. Companies try to advertise to their customers through the Internet. They do this by personalizing their webpage to what they search, which violates privacy because they are tracking what customers search through cookies and data. Something as harmless as searching for baby clothes for your niece or nephew can turn in to your information being thrown out there and having these companies trying to reach you. Violation of privacy on the Internet is something we should accept because no matter what we try to do to keep our privacy people will always find a way around it. Stealing credit card information is as easy as bumping into someone. There are multiple ways people can defeat personal privacy and it is done through the use of

How would you feel if I told you that I know almost everything there is to know about you – from your occupation to the brand of toothpaste you use, from your IQ to your culinary tastes, and so on – even though you have never met me, and possibly were not even aware of my existence? Most people would immediately state that they would feel violated, stripped of their individuality. Yet millions of people browse the Net day after day, blissfully ignorant of the fact that that they are always being monitored by someone to some degree. By selling you items and/or services, Amazon.com knows your reading preferences; your favorite online grocery store knows what kind of toothpaste you prefer; your university knows

Privacy is an obligated right for each and every individual. Privacy has different views and aspects which can vary for each individual. On a basic insight, privacy can express an individual’s security to be drawn only to them therefore eliminating the risk of others around watching you or even snooping in an intentional attempt to grasp some sort of information. There is another side to privacy as there is a differentia between the privacy of one’s self and the privacy under law. The different comes as the information that is protected under these laws is not within our control. (Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, 2012).

Mr. Woods’ essay “Has the Internet Killed Privacy?” speaks about peoples’ opinions on privacy in the internet age and how much they are willing to share. The overall belief appears to be a mixture of some form of privacy because privacy settings can be setup and peer pressure. Those few that feel they have to use social media simply because everyone else is doing it think they have privacy by choosing to have only friends and families see their posts and do not bother reading the terms and agreements of their chosen format. I do not believe anyone is to blame. The companies are just trying to cover their bases; however I think that they can make things more user friendly and transparent. The terms and agreements are generally several pages

As indicated by some people, the privacy right ought to be extended to workplaces. In the meantime, other individuals feel that this extension would encompass an unnecessary incursion into the managing rights of the management. In a working environment, the right to privacy of employees is a primarily controversial legal topic. This is even more of a concern or of an issue during this age of increased dependence on electronic mail and computers to do business. Because of innovation technology, employers have been enabled to monitor working environment correspondence that happens by means of PCs, for example, messages and Internet utilization. A majority of the employees feel that such observing abuses their privacy rights. Nevertheless, the law does permit it. Some employee activities like private discussions and actual physical spaces at the workplace such as the locked desk drawers are under more privacy protections. Hence, there is a great need for the employers to consider circumstances under which he or she wants to conduct an investigation.

Personal privacy is personal information that people keep secret from the public. Many companies and businesses want to protect people from hackers and thieves from using their information, such as Social Security and credit card barcodes, to buy products online or expose their social media pages. However, the public concludes that personal privacy does not exist when the government is watching them. David Plotz, a writer and deputy editor of Slate, wrote an essay entitled “Privacy is Overrated” to talk about how personal privacy is a myth. In the other side, David Schinke, chief editor of Utne Reader, wrote an essay entitled “Invading Our Privacy” to persuade how technology can make people expose their privacy online. Both essays created two different perspectives on personal privacy. However, one author essay organized his paper for the audience to understand where he provided specific evidence or examples relating to the topic, developed a tone towards his peers, and illustrated a rhetorical appeal towards the audience.

    How would you feel if every move you make, every word you say, every number you dial on the telephone, could easily be accessed or monitored by just about anyone in the world? Well, chances are that you and me and many others are currently, or have been, victims of this infringement on privacy. With today's ever growing technology, there is little one can do to ensure privacy in normal, every day life. Even though many benefits have come with this increased technology, the inherent loss of privacy scares many. In most cases, the use of such technology is taken too far, and if continued use of these technologies is to be permitted, then the law has some serious

The ability to see other’s pictures, comments, and other personal information, makes privacy a major issue. People no longer have private lives, because everybody post his personal information on the internet,

The world before technology has seemed a more secure place. Technology has changed a lifestyle of human a lot such as the development of human, privacy, freedom and human right itself. There are a right time and place for when an individual should use these technological and genetic advances. But at the same time if people use the technology at the wrong time or in the wrong way it can end up being a long-term consequence for peoples present and future life. With that, It is regrettable how private information is being leaked all over websites. As It was mention in the "Visible Man: Ethics In A World Without Secret" by Peter Singer who is the lra W. DeCamp professor of bioethics at Princeton University as well as the Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne describes how the surveillance at every place has influenced people to change their ethical actions. Also, how the U.S. government that is spying has proliferated, and how technology has changed over a decade. On the other hand, in the book "Ethics and the New Genetics" by Tenzin Gyatso, who is the fourteenth Dalai Lama and the leader of the Central Tibetan Administration - the government-in-exit of Tibet, describes the use of technology to assemble clones that have an impact on individuals present and future life. Also, Lama presents to use the new arising discovery that scientists made in genetic technologies and how advanced they are becoming. In the

Other privacy concerns consists of information confidentiality or data confidentiality and the connection between gathering and spreading of the data, technology, the community expectation of privacy, and the legal and biased issues surrounding them.