The Intersection Of Information Laws

One of the biggest concerns in the United States of America today is privacy. For its citizens, this concern is due mostly in part to new developments in technology and big data collection. Yes, this technology and data collection is beneficial for American citizens and is a step in the right direction for humankind, but to what extent? The CQ Researcher article titled, “Big Data and Privacy” by Tom Price answers just that question. More specifically, a monumental factor for technological advancement this article explains is the use of personal information by the producers of new technology and the collection of big data in this day in age. What makes this debate on the violation of privacy through the use personal information by businesses, as well as, the general population, is that big data collection is the staple of technological advancement and serves as a convenience for Americans. Although big data collection and technology serves as an extreme benefit in relation to convenience and societal advancement for those who use and consume it, how far will scientists, researchers, businesses, and the government push before it becomes a violation our privacy as citizens of the United States of America?

Legal and ethical issues in computing are not as straight forward as one expects, these two comprehensive concepts can be divided into many sub-sections such as computer Ethics which is a moral standard used as a guideline for computer users, Code of ethics is a guideline in ICT, intellectual property is the own work that is created by individuals, privacy refers to the rights that individual and companies have and how their data is collected and restricted to outside sources, computer crime is an illegal act that involves computers and finally cyber law which is laws that are related to helping protect the internet and other online communication.

In 2012, people discovered that the NSA had committed 2,776 violations to the law. The NSA was mainly spying on other countries while those other countries were spying on the United States.The U.S. government tried to explain why they did those infractions with the excuse that they were unintentional. The court ruled it as unconstitutional. As of now, the United States has collected every single piece of data that has been placed on the world wide web and is stored in a metadata machine.This means that anyone can have access to any piece of private information, just by looking it up on the internet. The only ways to fix that is by either monetizing all data or using a wrapper. The option of monetizing would people would surely benefit from this meanwhile, the corporations and the government would significantly loose their power.

One example of privacy issues was the famous National Security Agency (NSA) for their collection of, intelligence collection/information gathering of metadata of U.S. citizens which refers to cell phone records, call duration etc. NSA must

   Abstract:  This paper takes a look at basic ethics in relation to the Internet. By tracing the development of the Internet, it identifies perils of the World Wide Web and their moral significance to a culture trying to move successfully into the twenty-first century.

Trying to avoid a totalitarian, propaganda-based regime like Orwell wrote about, policy-makers still have to find a way to monitor technology and protect national security. The answer is not simple, but the key is finding the right point in the gray area that lies between complete and no privacy. American citizens have a right to privacy. They have the right to do what they choose without the government monitoring their every move. As Henry David Thoreau wrote, “That government is best which governs least.”

The arrest of Kevin Mitnick by the FBI, aided by Tsutomu Shimomura a renowned computer security expert, has many ethical issues involved which needs to be discussed on a broader scale for thorough understanding of ethical concepts of technology.

Privacy is mainly about trying to improve your social and business opportunities by concealing the sorts of bad activities that would cause other people not to want to deal with you" (qtd in Shaw 23). The general population really has nothing to hide from the government. According to the government, if that is the case, then the public has nothing to fear and should relinquish all rights to privacy. While in theory, that would be a grand solution, but Americans still want to feel as if they have a choice who sees their information and what particular information is shared. Corporations, such as Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook, use our browser history and internet search patterns to solicit us and recommend things that we may be interested in. We still feel that we have privacy, since these companies provide us with encrypted devices, however they themselves invade our privacy and use our information for data mining purposes. This can be compared to "digital Stockholm syndrome" (27). Consumers do not give a second thought to the price and overlook the invasion in their privacy to get the latest and greatest

Privacy in America is a pretty big issue, with the whistle blower, Snowden, leaking information on the NSA, many people across the country and the world have become weary of just how much the government can access out personal information. I am pretty unnerved by the fact that the government can look up almost anything about me and I wouldn’t know. I understand that they do this in the name of protecting America, but there needs to be some kind of regulation there so that the people don’t feel so vulnerable and that they have no privacy.

As the utilization of PCs and the web turns out to be more predominant, moral issues identified with PC use will keep on making a bigger effect on individuals' lives and the way that society capacities. PC morals include the ethical standards and behavioral rules related to the path in which people, associations, and society all in all utilization PCs and data innovation. A few cases of moral issues identified with PC utilize incorporate individual data protection, PC security, wholesale fraud, licensed innovation, level with access to data and so on.

On a more global level, international agreements such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights protect the privacy of individuals around the world. We see that in order to protect the fundamental privacy rights of individuals, laws have been established on both local and global scales. Therefore, it follows that laws are also necessary to protect the information of individuals in the electronic environment.

2. The US privacy laws already provide the necessary protection of civil liberties, so that all people can have their constitutional rights guaranteed. The laws require special search warrants to search people and their cars or houses; certain court orders are also required to intercept the phone conversations and read emails or text messages. These

Moreover once the private sector collects personal data, many things can happen to it. It could be lost in a data breach.Take the LivingSocial breach as an example. 50 million people’s names, emails, birth dates, and encrypted passwords gone in one hack. Companies could very easily misuse your information. Facebook is a perfect example. It constantly misuses information by constantly changing its privacy policies and eating away default protections. It is not the government’s place to determine the course of political and controversial

In the early years of computers and computerized technology, computer engineers had to believe that their contribution to the development of computer technology would produce positive impacts on the people that would use it. During the infancy of computer technology, ethical issues concerning computer technology were almost nonexistent because computers back then were not as multifaceted as they are today. However, ethical issues relating to computer technology and cyber technology is undeniable in today’s society. Computer technology plays a crucial role in all aspects of our daily lives. Different forms of computer technology provide unique functionalities that allow people to perform daily activities effectively and efficiently. In

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.