The Analysis And Exploitation Of Geo Data

“The task is simple to explain but harder to achieve. If we do not incorporate adequate security measures in our computer and communications infrastructure, we risk being overwhelmed by external enemies. If we put an externally focused view of security ahead of all other concerns, we risk being overwhelmed by their misuse. We must find a set of rules and a mechanism for overseeing those rules that allows society to defend itself from its genuine enemies while keeping communication surveillance from stifling dissent, enforcing morality and invading privacy. If we do not, the right to use privacy –enhancing technology that was won in the 1990s will be lost again.”

With the seemingly exponential propagation of inexpensive digital communications technologies over recent years, the general public is becoming more aware of the issues surrounding information privacy and government surveillance in the digital age. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a smart-phone has to be wary of how they use their private information for fear of that information being collected and used in a way contrary to their wishes. "Leaky" smartphone apps that transmit private information across the internet can be unethically used by government agencies. The issue of privacy is a balancing act; the public usually wants increased privacy and the government usually wants increased access.

Smartphones and tablets are both widely used by more than half of the population worldwide. They deliver speed, convenience, resourcefulness, and enjoyment through the millions of applications that anyone with basic or advanced programming knowledge can make. These applications are available through the IOS and Android markets. Although smartphone and tablet applications provide individuals with information, useful services and entertainment such as maps, Facebook, and even music players such as Pandora, they can also invade an individual’s privacy. Some researchers warn that there are actually a high percentage of smartphone applications that may threaten privacy. Every application must go through compliance requirements and it can be said that most people will not install and/or download any application that they don’t and/or wouldn’t trust. One of the largest concerns for application privacy is the ability for the device to gather personal information on the owner of the device and even additional information from the contact list. Some applications are believed to gather information such as phone numbers and even web habits. The smartphone and tablet alike have changed the way people communicate, work, and find their way through the world, carrying with them what could possibly be the latest tracking device.

Technology has become more accessible to the point it has become easier for government to watch everyone's move. In this generation technology takes over everyone's daily life, where people wakes up and the first thing is look at is the phone. A phone there are many things on it, like text, pictures and videos. Phones can do many things, but there is a possibility where the government can tap into a phone and look through it. The government can watch everyone’s: text, history, private info, and pictures. Government has no right to looking through people’s personal info because it violates Fourth amendment, Blackmail, and Creates fear.

Although technology has provided tools to enhance our capabilities in things such as finding a missing person, solving murder cases based on technological assets etc.., this technology also leaves us vulnerable in many ways to slowly losing our privacy (Burten, C., 2012).

Among the most precious information in criminal inquiries is the location of suspects, and when it comes to location records captured by smartphones, court rulings have also been inconsistent. Privacy advocates

Technology is constantly upgrading everyday and it creates unique challenges for individuals privacy rights while there are regulators looking to preserve both privacy rights and technological innovation. For awhile now society has been struggling on how to balance privacy rights and emerging technologies. For example, early as 1890, Newspapers and Photographs were on the rise and legal scholars called for added privacy protections, including enshrining those rights in criminal law. As people have a right to protect their privacy, it is still a struggle while promoting innovation in this fast increasing technology world we live in today.

At this instant, if one remains connected to the internet via smartphone, laptop, smart watch, or any other connected device, that being acts as a source of information for companies to use. People wonder how much spying the government and companies truly conduct in, and along came Edward Snowden in two-thousand-thirteen to expose how much is really tracked. Notably, Tom Geller, author of “In Privacy Law, It’s the U.S. vs. the World”, states, “His 2013 exposé of spying practices revealed the U.S. was secretly collecting protected European data, often via U.S. companies like Facebook” (Gellar 21). The whistleblowing act done by Edward Snowden has internet privacy becoming more of a political issue which is beneficial to the individuals who browse

As technology becomes more and more popular throughout all parts of the world there is an ever growing concern for individuals safety. With everyone carrying around a smartphone nowadays it is much easier to access everyone's location, especially the government. In fact there are many cases in which data was used from cell phone companies to capture criminals. Some people may argue that this is helpful to bring many criminals to justice but is also a huge invasion of privacy and should be looked into further.

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

Governments have for centuries attempted to restrict the privacy of their citizens. For some time now this has also included efforts to regulate citizens’ communications data by means of collecting and storing information gathered by providers of communication services. These efforts are referred to as data retention measures and would grant law enforcement agencies unlimited access to this data (Clarke, 2014).

Futuristic security methods such as Global Positioning Systems or GPS pose a serious question for some individuals. Those serious issues include liberty and also security. These topics need to be discussed when considering the use of these security methods. Some individuals may believe that the use of these devises leads to the loss of personal privacy and may interfere with an individual’s civil liberties. I agree with this statement to an extent. Without having an extensive background on the matter I could still foresee individual complaints regarding being monitored. For example questions arising with day-to-day activities that would never have raised an eyebrow before. However, in some extreme circumstances certain individuals have forgone

Today, individuals are sacrificing privacy in order to feel safe. These sacrifices have made a significant impact on the current meaning of privacy, but may have greater consequences in the future. According to Debbie Kasper in her journal, “The Evolution (Or Devolution) of Privacy,” privacy is a struggling dilemma in America. Kasper asks, “If it is gone, when did it disappear, and why?”(Kasper 69). Our past generation has experienced the baby boom, and the world today is witnessing a technological boom. Technology is growing at an exponential rate, thus making information easier to access and share than ever before. The rapid diminishing of privacy is leaving Americans desperate for change.

In today’s day and age it’s almost impossible to live without leaving behind a digital footprint. Whether it’s using credit cards to make purchases or performing a search using a search engine, it’s all digitally recorded and stored. Google is one of the biggest corporations in the world and it’s recognised they collect data of its users. While users may accept this fact, users can also feel their privacy is threatened because they have no control whatsoever over what Google can do with the data. With reference to Google’s Privacy Policy and drawing on two theoretical perspectives; Foucault’s Panopticon and Orwell’s Big Brother, I will explore how surveillance might impact user behaviour.

Data is constantly streaming behind the apps individuals use whether they know the details or not. Individuals that use technology need to take into consideration how the location is still being tracked even when users are unaware that they have not turned off the tracking setting on their phones. The Time Magazine article “How to Stop Your Phone from Tracking Your Location” explains the step process with how to make sure the location setting is not active on anybody that has an internet connected mobile device (Aciman,2015). As people are scrolling down through their photos and do not realize that photos are geotag with specific locations where people capture the photo. Individuals would see for instance, that the picture was taken in a