Darius M. Fisher's Privacy

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In this case we are introduced to Jake Markos, a computer programmer at ALAC Marketing. Jake is posed with the ethical dilemma of whether or not to include secret spyware in a survey software he’s developing for the Diabetes Foundation, with the intention of attaining and marketing to the foundations donor’s emails. Jake is very much an introverted person and likes his job at ALAC because it challenges him, he can work alone for the most part and dreads the process of job hunting. Jake encountered this ethical dilemma when his boss, Nathan Brooke who is well aware of Jakes capabilities and vulnerabilities, suggests that he should include an extra line of code within a surveying software Jake had been working on.. Nathans intention was to acquire the email information of the wealthy donors of the Diabetes Foundation in order to market Circulex, an expensive pharmaceutical drug beneficial to diabetic’s blood flow, to them. The Circulex contract was a very profitable one for ALAC and Nathan’s main objective was to satisfy it. After suggesting Jake add in the spyware to the foundations survey, Nathan then went on to suggest that if Jake didn’t do it he would have to look for work elsewhere. Knowing Jake’s docile, introverted personality traits and essentially threatening him with termination, we can already see Nathan manipulating Jake into doing the task, regardless of Jakes moral hesitations.

Privacy is something that most people believe is not possible on the internet, but with the correct knowledge it can be possible. In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty”, he states that “It is very easy to find information about people on the internet, even private things that people don’t expect others to be able to see” (538). People don’t realize that what they do online can affect their personal lives such as their credit score, the ads that are recommended to them, and even the cookies in their computer. While Carr may have great points, he may not have considered the ways people do have privacy. There are some ways to protect browsing, people just need to know how. Most browsers have a mode that allows people to visit sites without being tracked. There’s no history, and no cookies.

Just as the freedom of the press is backed up by the first amendment, our right to privacy is also protected by the fourth amendment-at least that was what I thought. In his book, “Privacy Lost,” David Holtzman elucidates that many Americans are under the impression that the law protects their right to privacy; when in fact, “the word privacy doesn’t even appear in the Constitution-not once” (93). This is what the Fourth Amendment actually states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" (US 1). It is important to understand the protection we do have under this law-even if it is very limited. This law was created to insure its citizens that the government has limitations on its powers, and that it cannot gather any information from people without first asking the court for a warrant. Does this mean that the government cannot search our home, our computer, and our records? No, on the contrary, the government can search and engage in any kind of surveillance, and in anyway it pleases. The only thing that stops the government from searching our home, is a warrant. Which is a piece of paper that can easily be acquired by his friend, the judge. Furthermore, this law will protect us when we

"59 Radio Address about the American Right of Privacy. February 23, 1974." American Reference Library - Primary Source Documents, Jan. 2001, p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mih&AN=32360825.

As Justin Brookman says, “‘Without a framework in place to assure everyday consumers of the ability to limit the collection and retention of the minutiae of their lives by unknown third parties, any sense of a realm of personal privacy may completely evaporate’” (Tapscott 119). There should always be some sense of mystery in the world. Third party sources often find a way of getting information that Internet users did not give them express permission to. The flow of information goes further than most people realize, which is where the dangerous invasion of privacy comes in. A sharing is caring mentality is all good and fun until a third party uses it against you. We should beware the extent to which our information can spread without our

Privacy is what allows people to feel secure in their surroundings. With privacy, one is allowed to withhold or distribute the information they want by choice, but the ability to have that choice is being violated in today’s society. Benjamin Franklin once said, “He who sacrifices freedom or liberty will eventually have neither.” And that’s the unfortunate truth that is and has occurred in recent years. Privacy, especially in such a fast paced moving world, is extremely vital yet is extremely violated, as recently discovered the NSA has been spying on U.S. citizens for quite a while now; based on the Fourth Amendment, the risk of leaked and distorted individual information, as well as vulnerability to lack of anonymity.

Private information that was previously segregated now becomes easily accessible to employers, colleagues, recruiters, and clients, among other perhaps unintended audiences” (Abril, 2012, para. 4). Yes, most social media sites attain privacy settings but one must always remember there are hiccups in everything on the internet and no guarantees leaks will not occur.

Privacy is almost completely non-existent, and the more time and energy that goes by the more privacy seems to disappear. Take the popular application on cell phones known as “Snapchat” for an example, Snapchat is now giving users the ability to tap into GPS and show their friends and family their exact location. Similarly, also look at Facebook. One of the biggest social media outlets known to the human population, even according to some communication majors, Facebook meets all of the criteria of being its own culture. Facebook allows users over 1.2 billion to be exact to allow themselves to also tap into GPS and publically announce where they are located, and it also allows users to “tag” their friends within their friend’s list.

With the growth of the internet and technology, we are growing more and more connected. Whether it was voluntarily given or not, your information is most likely out there. Over the years, I have done my best to try and reduce or prevent potential negative or bad information. Have my efforts over the years been successful or has my personal information still made it online?

People can protect their personal privacy by staying off social media .They should stay off of social media because their are alot of experienced hackers on there . According to the text "Hackers also know that it s frequently easy to find out the Anwser to security questions." Once they find out your personal information it can lead to bad things that you may not can fix. so, therefore you must be cautions when u are on social media. Another thing is don't have the same password for all your accounts because if that was the case once the hacker have access to one account they have access to all your accounts.

Social Media is a current way in which people are using to interact with one another daily. Since the launch of various Social Networking Sites (SNS) its been a huge attraction in a new way to share information with others and correspond with interests of your choice in many different forms. Although social media sites allow users to share information with friends and other sites on the internet, many people are unaware of how their privacy is getting out. Now that the expansion of global connection through these social media networking sites are so highly present in todays society, giving us easy access to information, the lack of one's privacy is being diminished. Everyday peoples privacy rights are

Personal privacy something that we all hope to be able to keep it to ourselves and not be hacked but sometimes it is just not that easy. Personal privacy is an extremely high cause of losing financial funds, incoming credit and personal information. However there are ways of decreasing the chances of being hack like managing what information goes on your social media, software app for instance giving them permission while secretly gathering underground information, and to really prevent the use of identity fraud is to don’t use a phone.

In relation to privacy, social networking and many other genres of the internet are one of the main and easiest places to track down people, many naïve victims, posts up their details on their profile, making it easy to enable stalkers or strangers to have advantage of virtually meeting you. This problem has caused many families to live in fear, not knowing how vulnerable they are to the outside world, where

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,