The Imperative Compromise For Security

While identity theft was present in society previous to the appearance of the internet, this medium has provided thieves with an intriguing method to steal identities from people without even having to leave their house. "Today, more and more people engage in online financial activities such as shopping, banking, investing, and bill paying." (Understanding Identity Theft) While this reflects positively on people's lives by saving them significant time, it also exposes them to a world of

The need to protect National Security is far more important than individual privacy. The greatest part of living in the United States of America is the freedom that we have. That freedom and the right to live freely is protected by various government agencies. From time to time, the privacy a person has may have to be invaded to guarantee the security of the country and other citizens. Everyone has the right to not have their life controlled by the government, but it has the right to make sure that citizens are not doing anything to threaten the security of

Privacy! It’s an elementary principle we all value and fight to protect. However, with technological trends, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, our lives have now become accessible to all. These social media platforms have become part of our daily lives, from sharing personal information or activities to communal networking. The fascination to be trendy and acquire followers, is compromising our privacy principles and places us at significant risk. It’s remarkably easy to pretend that we control what personal information we share, however, realistically we leave technological trails every day we login to these apps, or browse the internet. For the most part, it seems that

Ever since World Wide Web came out in 1990, it has opened a floodgate for sharing and communicating over the internet in the form of social media. People can keep in touch with their friends and families from across the world, know what they are up to, and see all the interesting things that goes on in their lives. Keeping up with everyone and everything no longer requires tedious phone calls and email messages. Instead, we have easier, better looking, more interactive, and all around more fun ways to communicate. These new, and seemingly better in everyway, methods of communication is of course a hit with tech savvy young people and more surprisingly, also their old folks. Every new thing that came out, from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram to Snapchat, is hailed as groundbreaking and completely essential to daily lives by its users. Yet they all come with less recognisable, but just as important dangers. And I am not talking about drunk tweeting, either. These are bigger and much more complicated threats. Yes, social media is a new and wonderful way to communicate and share. However, this new way to communicate has created a new face for crime and a new class of criminals, and this new way to share has destroyed our privacy and personal security. For all their savviness at using these social media outlets, many fail to realize that there are people with less than innocent intentions following their every move through their shared feeds. Social media is a threat to our

Stereotypical parents are known to be overprotective towards their younglings. All parents are concerned about their teens, yet some parents tend to go overboard. Parents need to learn when to monitor and when it is too much. In the article “The Undercover Parent” (2008), Harlan Coben proposes that parents should use spyware to supervise their teens. Coben argues that parents should supervise their teens because adolescents are secretive when it comes to having their own privacy, which makes parents oblivious toward their actions. However, at the same time parents should consider to keep their teens aware of their surveilling. Ellen Goodman’s article “Big Brother Meets Big Mother” (2007) on the other hand, criticizes that parents who monitor

In the modern society, the technology is growing at a dramatic speed. New ways of communication make the conception of privacy more obscure. At the same time, it is harder for people to actually keep the “privacy”. For example, in old days, someone could steal others’ privacy only by sneaking around; in the phone era, this can be achieved by placing the detectaphone; currently, in the internet era, with video calls, e-mails and the latest “cloud storage”, the stealer can get the information by acquiring the data from the server. Other than focusing on few people, those data allow the stealer to have a broad surveillance, and even without exposing him/herself. This “access” could be “hacking”, or something worse, a special program used by the

“81 percent of Internet-initiated crime involves social networking sites, mainly Facebook and Twitter” (Hendricks, 2014). Criminals use social media to gather information from victims because they can effortlessly find their identity, where they live, where they work, and friends and family. Social media is constantly being updated with new features and “location based social media sites and applications allow users to tag their geographical location” (Brunty et al., 2014). This gives more accessibility to criminals on social media to pursue their illegal activities. For example, in 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed $5.6 million worth in jewelry, including her engagement ring. The icon celebrity had posted a photo of herself with her engagement ring a week prior to the robbery. It was identified the thieves had been following her on social media and one of the burglars stated, “She gives information on social media all the time” (Le Vine & Bryant, 2017). According to Hendricks (2014), “66 percent of Facebook users don’t even know about privacy settings.” Crimes committed through social media include, pornography, identity theft, fraud, cyber bullying and unauthorized users such as sex offenders and minors. “Social media has been used to facilitate “new” crimes such as revenge porn, prompting calls for harsher punishment” (McGovern &

The internet is a virtual smorgasbord of personal information. If you need someone’s phone number, you can look it up. If you want to research a company, you can simply visit their website. If you want to reconnect with an old friend, you can use social media. The sheer amount of personal information that is available online makes it easy to breach the boundary between using the internet for its intended purpose and using the internet to invade another person’s privacy (Ireland, 2017).

Social media is a common threat to privacy. These days nothing about our lives can be kept a secret with the amount of information individuals post online. If someone wanted to find out something about someone, all they would have to do would be to visit their Facebook or twitter page. Many large companies that fear for security risks monitor and track their employees’ Internet and email usage. However, there is an even more dangerous threat to private security, hackers. Whether they are in the government, working for private industry, or free-lance, hackers can be found anywhere virtually breaking into servers that are not usually accessible. Recently the government has begun to increase the invasiveness of their monitoring of individuals’ private lives. Since the attacks on 9/11, the “government, through the National Security Surveillance Act (NSSA) C.N., have been wiretapping cell phone conversations, often on random innocent citizens who the government should have no reason to believe these citizens would be involved with any illegal activity” (Dowell). The government does not just invade the privacy of dangerous or suspicious characters; they invade the privacy of every citizen. The government also tracks all Internet usage and accounts. Every message you have ever sent or posted online can be viewed by the FBI and various other security agencies. These acts violate the second amendment, freedom of privacy. With their knowledge of computer programming, free-lance hackers can hack into even the most secure networks and download private information. Nothing is safe from hackers, “pictures, phone numbers, social security numbers, emails, work information, anything needed for fraud can be found on the web or through a company” (Dowell). They use this information to access credit cards and other private accounts and rob people, all from behind a computer screen.

The emerge of our privacy invasion has mount with government surveillance by the U.S national security system (Baumer, Roth, Epstein, 2014). Government surveillance and social website such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube are source of privacy invasion (Cole, 2015). Connecting to social website to communication with friends, family, and co-worker; sharing, updating news, and information which overcast privacy according to Cole, 2015. Many Americans became occupied to social media and forget to think about the important of confidentiality and privacy. Multiple surges website captured personal profile once information shared with the media. This information became accessible to the public, and privacy can no longer be private that lead to the erosion of privacy (Cole, 2015)

America is an individualized society, where personal privacy is valued. Current exposure is increasing, however, due to technological factors. Those factors include social networking, YouTube, Twitter, and other forms of mass expression. The effects of this increased exposure can range from embarrassment to risks to personal safety on one hand to greater exposure to other cultures and a better understanding of the lives of others.

In our technology growing world, we are confronted with exposing our privacy every second of the day. From as easy as taking pictures from an iPhone to downloading a game on the App Store, personal information, no matter how well one tries to hide, the material can be released for dozens to see. Honan writes, “iPhone shots can be automatically placed on a map… Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment interior… Now I know where she lives” (3). When taking a picture, thinking of whether other people will see it somewhere else usually does not enter our brain. If the picture is not shared on any website then the picture should be safe, right? Wrong. From reading through Honan’s essay, he encounters several ways that our privacy is no longer private.

Our neighborhood, coffee shop, and park are places where boundaries are collapsing. Instead of the mall, street corner, playground, the internet has come their alternate place.” (Sherry Turckle) Meaning people used to meet in places and have a conversation, with one another, and have their cell phones turn off. It has become an alternative place that we no longer meet in places, we have made the interment the alternate place. An isolation from people and we found that the internet has empathy in us. This has become an issue. Some people find comfort by looking at the other person`s profile to feel accompanied and avoid loneliness. This can be done by hacking or stalking one another; privacy is being taken away. The interesting information Cyber Hackers are looking for is in getting hold of information. This includes information of photo’s, latest purchase, and latest post. Above all, we gain confidence by sharing every little detail with each other, online. Looking for information that companies are looking for date of birth, best friend, first pet, information that we`re sharing. Although, hackers are hacking for their own intention, there also sharing continent on the person`s account for their own benefit. When its famous account, there hacking to share private information, and leek information that’s meant to be

Privacy is an interesting topic to understand in the age of new media. It seems everyone wants privacy, yet we still share our life stories with the world on social media platforms. Throughout this research paper I will discuss what privacy is, what we want to keep private, and the purpose of privacy, laws that protect our privacy and how privacy affects us on the Internet. Furthermore, I will look at the case of Ashley Madison, an online dating site for those already married and how personal information was leaked about its users.

How many, in this group has a computer, phone, and/or a tablet? How many have a mobile internet connection, or a local internet connection available for you to use? If you said yes to any of those, then it is likely you have an email address, you have given your home address on a website, entered credit card information, and possibly do online banking. Life is filled with hoops, jumps, and seemingly impossible boundaries. However, when including technology, it allows an extra vulnerability to you. Unfortunately, some of those vulnerabilities are directly related to people with only one goal, to cause problems. In the growing world of technology, the ability to steal personal information is becoming much easier than ever before. With society switching to the cyber world as a more convenient way of life, it is imperative to take the proper methods for protecting your information.