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.”

In “Privacy under Attack,” the authors discuss some potential ways of how our privacy could be in danger or stolen by companies or accessible by administration and corporations. According to the authors, some ways that our privacy could be in danger are first through video records and picture taken by traffic cameras and surveillance cameras for us. Second through illegal “wiretaps” by the government that could hear our conversations. Third, our privacy and personal data could be “monitored by corporations through the role of club cards, raffles, or refunds that outside companies’ collection of data about us can then be sold without noticing, given consumers the optional to search for the box on any frame to indicate they don’t want their personal

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.

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.

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

Final Exam Direct Quote In December of 2015, a huge controversy broke out when the U.S. Government was trying to force Apple to invent a software to be able to unlock the phone of a man who had killed multiple people in a horrifying act of terror. Although Apple realizes that this act was far beyond okay, they do not want to create the software that would allow the Government to access our private information. In a letter to Apple customers, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, further argues this statement when he says, “The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s microphone or camera without your knowledge” (Cook). As people take sides in this issue, they really need to understand that when they’re

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).

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.

Of course, people protest the loss of privacy, because companies like Google hold on to people’s location for years unbeknownst to the Google user. However, most services like those are able to be turned off, and now phones give the user the choice of which apps are able to use GPS instead a blanket on-or-off switch for GPS services. This can prevent certain apps from retaining your location and using it. By removing certain apps’ ability to use GPS tracking, users may be able to prevent some of the unwanted mining of GPS tracking information. However, a consequence that not many people associate with GPS tracking is its use in legal cases, but the main objection that I would have to that argument is a question of what someone has to hide. If ultimately this can bring justice to unsolved cases, the use of GPS tracking in legal proceedings is a benefit; the question is what people have to hide if they don’t want their locations to be used in court cases. GPS tracking–despite its reputation for invading privacy–is a tool that can be lifesaving, informative, and ultimately valuable as it can help emergency services, allow someone to learn about where they live, interact with their environment through mobile games, and bring people to justice through the use of

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.

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.

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.

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

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).