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    Agency. However, internet surveillance has proven to be necessary in the newfound pervasiveness of online forums and websites that contain large amounts of illegal activity such as child pornography. Altogether, I would say responsibility to

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    Privacy is one of the major concerns in today’s world. People want to keep their identity secret for different reasons. It varies according to audience. For eg. Corporate world would like to remain anonymous for business interests. The efficiency of internet motivates the companies to use internet over intranet. But along with that the question of anonymity also arise. After in dept analysis of “Proxies for anonymous routing” and “A protocol for anonymous communication over the Internet” papers,different

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    Information privacy debate - A2069336 Is the information on internet private? Do employers have a right to access employee information on social media? Why or Why not? Information on the internet is there for public scrutiny. Take for instance some of the information that is posted on ones social networking site's profile like work and education, place of residence, relationship and family, contact information, birthday, sex, and relationship status. These pieces of information can be easily accessed

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    | E-Commerce | Geolocation: Marketing Tool or Invasion of Privacy| | | Abstract Do you know about the new marketing tool called geolocation? Companies are using it to drum up new business. With its rise in popularity and the growing number of smartphones in the United States, privacy and the threat of criminal activity are on the minds of lawmakers. What devices are equipped with geolocation, digitally storing records of our movements? How have social networks increased then

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    September 26, 2013 How Has The Internet Affected Your Privacy? After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 the government took a big step forward in trying to protect the American people. Today, 12 years later, the government continues to protect the American people online in ways that are questioned daily. The questions remain, does the government really need to be watching us online? What privacy do we have while using our computers? Imagine shopping at your favorite store, you

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    Thanks to the popularization of the internet, we can now keep ourselves connected to the cloud every minute. While the internet has brought us immense convenience and enjoyment, we have been compromising our privacy using it. Every day, we exchange megabytes or even gigabytes of data via the internet, and inevitably share our personal information with someone out there. Throughout the past decades, we have begun to realize that the internet is not secure—our information could be easily acquired by

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    Privacy can be best described as a reasonable expectation that as person may have in which you can be free from being observed. Privacy is a right that we usually all take for granted; it is a right that has become even more important as technological advances continue to make it easier for cyberactors to target both individuals and corporations alike. More and more our privacy is something that we should be trying to protect, but the reverse seems to be occurring as we create a wide spread and

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    Recently the topic of privacy has been brought up in the news since President Trump signed a bill to repeal internet privacy, giving internet provider companies the right to sell your internet history (Fung, 2017). Some say this is isn’t right, and that the government has no right to delve into our business. Other people think that as long as you aren’t look at anything bad, you should have nothing to worry about. Privacy isn’t an entirely necessary thing to have, but it is a nice thing to have.

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    care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say” (Snowden). Even in America, “land of the free”, our ability to hide our identities is threatened daily. The people of the world must protect their right to be anonymous on the internet. Large corporations have a lot to gain by deanonymizing the internet. Consumer’s lives are becoming increasingly dependent on internet-connected cell phones,

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    pure-market model to preserve consumer privacy, consumer confidence, and raise business’ owner revenues. However, it is uncertain whether the competitive market model, utilized as an argument in favor of industry self-regulation, is applicable, due to the fact that, some consumers lack of basic understanding of Internet privacy. I don’t think it benefit for businesses to protect their privacy, if consumers do not understand the basics of online data collection and privacy. If they cannot make the difference

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