The Ethics Of The Privacy Of Consumers

Going to a shopping store is not the only place a consumer will be tracked and watched. Unfortunately, in the new era another level of eavesdropping has manifest through Smart television for American society. For instance Retail stores are spying on you in the stores and now have the capability to track your every move online. When you are at home you Smart television listens to your conversations and records what you watch. Consumer tracking may consist of video camera recording your license plate, bank information, credit score and eavesdropping through your television (Mosser, 2013).

These extremely large data sets may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations relating to human behavior and interaction. These analysesaffect us on day to day basis positively and negatively and the legality of how this information is collected and the laws that apply may be unclear. Both with or without users' knowledge, consumer personal data is collected from every daily, digital activity; from purchases, web searches, amazon searches, browsing history, and phone use. This data is generated, and then downloaded and stored. [15] Companies can then use this data to create "data sets" or large files of users' data to produce customer profiling. This data can also be used by police, the governmental bodies, scientists, businesses, military, and other industries where occasional breaches of data are expected .[16] Breaches and leaks of personal information including phone calls, credit card information, home address, and personal phone numbers are examples of information that is logged and stored by these corporations while making "data sets". Much of this information is being processed and sold to marketers for the purpose of marketing their products. This information is stored digitally and in some cases, regardless of the security of the information being stored, there are risks of unauthorized parties

The topic of this paper is privacy. It will talk about the ethical and legal reasons for maintain privacy. The audience for this paper is high school level teachers in a school with one-to-one devices for every student.

Everyone should have their own privacy in order to secure our personal and business. Most people do not like when some stranger is keep looking at you anything you do and talk. In 1984, that is called Big Brother is watching you through the telescreen. Telescreen can always see and hear whatever people are doing and privacy setting. There are no such as privacy and secrets because telescreens were everywhere such as streets, houses and restrooms. In 1984, the main character is Winston Smith who works at Ministry of the Truth. He believed that privacy should have in his society which against with Big Brother. Winston can not write his journals because writing journals are illegal. Therefore he needed to hide his journals in the corner of his house where telescreen could not see it. It can be sentenced by death and put in the labor campus for 25 years when people in 1984 who write journals. The right of privacy is most important than national security because citizens should have freedom, government has no right to control people’s business and people would be unsafe, unsecured under strict government.

How different countries and organizations are approaching privacy issues along with my predictions how it will unfold the future

Hi Danae, I think the examples you choose were very strong to support your argument that surveillance of consumers by retail anthropologists is not manipulative and unethical. However, I think you should add some details to these arguments, especially your first one. You should definitely mention how the surveillance of consumers allows retailers to improve constomer interaction, but as well as provide a real life example with statistics from another source in addition to the video. I think that your thesis is very strong in explaining the overall points you are trying to make. I can clearly see the points you are trying to make, you argue that surveillance of consumers helps retailers how to increase customer interaction, satisfaction, and

“If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that?,” asked by Andrew Pole’s colleagues. In today’s day and age of technology, data mining can be easily used to compile huge capacities of data that is validated to calculate patterns of the data from the information such as name, address, date of birth, credit card numbers, and social security numbers that people have submitted to the Internet through purchases, advertising, and profiles everyday. Although data mining seems harmless, it allows companies to gather information to improve the business by making ethical decisions; therefore, this can raise concerns with privacy and security of the person and/or their personal information that

Today, it seems as if everyone is connected through his or her own cell phone. With this they create data and information, intentionally or not using them. This information can be collected from applications, text messaging, and simple just walking around with a cell phone connected. This data may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and other association relating to human behavior. The creation and use of this data is what today’s society puts under the large umbrella of big data. This paper discusses the ethics of collection practices and use of big data.

Technology are getting very advance. Companies now track consumers’ shopping and other preferences. Some say it's an invasion of privacy, while others, may argue that it is beneficial to consumers. This debate has been going on for a while now. Companies that track people using cameras or through phone search are invading people's personal

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With the advent of mobile phones, iPad and other smart technology, accessing information across the web has become very easy. You can sit at home and pay your phone bills, or talk to someone from across the world. Along with these benefits, it has also become easier to get access to information that would otherwise be restricted. In recent years, debates have taken place regarding the concern of the privacy of information that is uploaded on the internet, or that is taken from it. This research paper aims at comparing the controversies that surround the concept of privacy in the digital age.

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

Personal data is quickly becoming a commodity in today's high technology world. This information is used by banks, investment and brokerage companies, credit card merchants, government agencies (local, state and federal), and consumer product-based companies. Most people probably don't realize the amount of information that's shared between companies, or how often it's done. Many companies sell and share customer data to help sell products and find out what new products they should produce. Other uses include gathering information about inventory levels to help better determine what types of products are bought at which store, when and how often. This can be used for inventory and production, to make sure that the store (or

Nowadays most computer-human interaction happens through the Internet; however, data that was originally gather by other means can be digitalized and ended up being mined. Minable information, produced by people and therefore subject to the ethical issues discuss in here, can be divided in 4 different categories: user input, usage, information derived from devices, and images.

Users are partaking in a growing variety of societal and commercial activities online, as well as the development of substantial networking data. Malte Spitz explains that, “in the summer of 2006, the E.U. Commission tabled a