...Privacy and security (Initial essay) Introduction When I think back one of firsts times I thought knowingly about privacy and security in my life at category of every data being stored and maybe later analyzed it was back my previous student days when one of my friend refused to pay with bank card in Alco-store. At that time it seemed to me really paranoiac and weird, but now I get his idea behind it. If one is a gambler for instance, it really isn’t very smart to pay with credit card in gambling-den. But at the other hand nobody can also blackmail you at basis of your sins which are known to everybody. Is privacy possible in the digital age? In current days one of the biggest and influential databases about private persons Facebook is launching a new profile type “Timeline” – it really brings users history in silver plate to everyone interested – unless he has taken precautions in privacy-settings. Many people say they’re not worried about the info reachable to everyone, “I’ve got nothing to hide,” they declare. Those advancing the nothing-to-hide argument have in mind a particular kind of appalling privacy harm, one in which privacy is violated only when something deeply embarrassing or discrediting is revealed, says Solove (2011). Privacy itself is a concept in disarray. Nobody can articulate what it means, claims Solove (2006). It isn’t seen everywhere same way as in Western countries, also understanding differs individually. Already in 1976 the secretary-general of...
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...Assignment 2: The Value of Digital Privacy Strayer University Law, Ethics and Corporate Governance – LEG 500 1. List and describe at least three (3) technologies that allow an individual to research citizens’ private data. Google Inc. offers what may be the largest and most used tool to search for information over the internet. Their mission statement says it best: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Google, Inc., 2013). By typing any word or set of words into the search field, Google is able to bring together information about individuals, businesses; just about any subject imaginable. Google is increasingly used by employers to gather information about job applicants. Private individuals use it to find information about family members, friends, or complete strangers. Features like Google Earth can give you a bird’s-eye view of someone’s home by simply typing in an address, and Google Maps can take you straight to their front door. The global reach of Google Online phone books and reverse directories such as White Pages provide a limited amount of information free of charge, but offer the opportunity to provide more information for a one-time or recurring fee. These directories normally display information such as current and past addresses, possibly phone numbers, age, and household members or relatives. These tools are useful for individuals who are simply looking...
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...Assignment 2: The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age Since the personal computing revolution, popular entertainment has given us nightmare scenarios of computers and machines taking over the world or threatening our security. From War Games to The Matrix to the Terminator movies, each depiction has seemed like science-fiction at the time, but in the new digital age, they may be closer to reality than we care to admit. And while cyborgs from the future aren’t coming back to exterminate us or are we playing against a machine capable of setting off a doomsday attack, the implications of how much information is available about us on the World Wide Web can set off a personal doomsday. Ways to Find Data For many people with questions, the first step towards an answer is logging on to the popular search engine Google. Simply type in a subject and click the search button and users are provided with page after page of information. You can easily find that recipe you’ve been looking for, the latest news headlines or personal information on yourself or your family and friends. A Google search can provide background information, phone numbers, addresses, photos and even directions and maps to your address. The popular search engine also provides e-mail services and cloud-based storage for documents. And while these services are password protected, e-mails stored on Google’s server for more than 180 days can be turned over to governmental agencies without...
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...Privacy and security at the digital age: The innovation of Business in the online world Over the past decade the world has solely relied upon technology and its transformation throughout the years allowing for the revolution of social media to completely change how everyone communicates especially for businesses, allowing them to extend out and provide large opportunities for themselves. According to ISACA (2010), through the use of social media, it allows businesses to gain serious advantages through research and evaluation of their competition, their consumers, and the market. This enables them to not only help develop them to be on top of their issues, but using it as a tool for enhancing a better relational experience with employees and customers. For businesses to be successful with their organisations or products, social media is the key to their communication with their stakeholders through privacy and security, where it strongly impacts business to improve, but can be considered also to be a big risk where that barrier can be invaded, which can cause legal and ethical issues. Privacy and security are known to be the most important issues surrounding social media and the innovation of businesses today. Although it may be argued that users voluntarily sign away their privacy by using these social media when creating accounts and putting their personal data online, it is not clear how consent actually works in these situations (Custers et al. 2014). But overall privacy...
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...The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age Diana Flynn Strayer University Professor James Merola April 30, 2012 1. List and describe at least three (3) technologies that allow an individual to research citizen’s private data. Intelius.com is a technology that helps people find family members, friends, classmates, military buddies and almost anyone living in the United States. It sells background information to anyone or anybody regardless of who you are. DateCheck is a site hosted by Intelius which stores reports including names, addresses, birth dates, court records, and cell phone numbers. People can access personal records by name, social security number or phone number through Intelius. The second technology is Google.com. If you are looking for information on someone, searching the web using Google is one of the best places to start. A person can find background information, phone numbers, addresses, maps and more. On the flip side, anyone can find the same information about you. Information is given by citizens opening up an account. It is the basic information such as name, address, phone, email or credit card number. Information is shared with companies, organizations, and in individuals outside of Google with consent. Data searched on the web is stored to improve and maintain the security of their systems. Government agencies request information from...
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...The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age A weekend getaway in Vegas…$400, dinner at a fine restaurant…$200, digital privacy in the information technology age…PRICELESS. No value can be put on the importance of digital privacy in today’s world of the Internet. There are numerous technologies that allow individuals to research citizens’ private data. Websites such as Facebook, Intelius, and Spokeo allow for easy access to individuals’ personal information. Technologies That Allow Research of Private Data For today’s generation, Facebook has become as conventional as the telephone. You will not find many people functioning in today’s technological environment without a Facebook page. With so many people using the website, it has become a prime source in gathering personal data about individuals. So many users post personal information about where they work, what schools they attend, what vacations they’ve taken, the names/ages of theirs kids, and much more. And, of course, there are usually pictures to go along with all of the unsolicited information that’s posted. Social networking sites usually allow their users to join and host their information for free. These companies sometimes make their money by helping marketers to target advertising campaigns--a service for which advertisers pay tremendously. This creates profit for social networking companies as they provide a free service to users (Petryni, 2013). Intelius is one example of a people search...
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...The following assignment contains information regarding individual privacy in this age of information technology. On today’s vast information superhighway, private information can be found on most individuals within a couple of clicks of a computer mouse. This assignment will describe a minimum of three technologies that allow people to research the private information of citizens. This report provides and analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of having this information made public. Additionally, this report includes options individuals have to protect their private information. Last, this report discusses the existence and effectiveness of electronic privacy laws enacted to protect private information. Google is probably the most used search engine on the internet. It is usually the first step used to research private information. Google collects all available private information and conveniently places it at a researcher’s fingertips. Such information as address, telephone numbers, pictures and work history is available on Google. Facebook is another popular website people use to obtain private information. Researchers can gain information such as posted pictures, family/friend information, and place of employment. Researchers can also find out recreational information such as local establishments a person frequents or when he or she is on vacation. Many states use have county property tax websites. A researcher can simply type in a person’s name and find...
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...Teachers, Privacy and the Ethical use of Digital Media OUTLINE Digital Media and Teachers - Ethical implications for teachers and their personal use of social media - Is it ethical for teachers and students to be friends on social media sites? Expected Privacy While Using Digital Media - Privacy Breaches - Ethical use of personal identifiable information Conclusion References Digital media has greatly enhance the way that we share things in both our personal and business lives. It has enabled us to share things with our communities so fast and so easily that we to forget about the ramifications that could come of this technology if we don’t fully understand its power. As more and more people and organizations turn to digital media the implications of our actions begin to present themselves. There are various ethical concerns that need to be addressed as we consume digital media in our everyday lives. These challenges are widespread and can be applied to virtually every corner and medium of the internet. In this research paper we will address just a few areas of concern listed below: • Should teachers be allowed to communicate with students via social media? • Should a teachers personal posts affect their professional life? • What amount of privacy should we expect and who is responsible to maintain that privacy? • Just because you can say it does it mean you should? These questions touch on the huge subject of ethical...
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...Process that has changed my life The internet has greatly changed the lives of many people in my country and definitely the world over. Now people are able to do things which they could not do before the coming of the internet. The following are how the internet has influenced many people: • E-banking • E-learning • Communication through emails, social networks and Skype, for example • Ecommerce • Surfing the internet for learning • Research. This list is not exhaustive. However one process that changed my life very much is through searching for jobs online. There are a lot of employment agencies that are online. People can register with them for their services. I registered with a number of employment agencies in my country. I can now search for jobs and apply for jobs on the internet in a fast and efficient manner. Before the use of the internet for that purpose people would be required to use express mails or postal services to apply for jobs. People could also travel for long distances in search of employment. I can no longer do that. I have changed jobs in the past ten years through online applications. It now takes very little time to search for employment. The employment agencies, can as well keep data bases of job seekers, so much that it is easier to find right candidates for employment. In the past ten years I changed jobs four times by the use of the internet. That has not been very expensive for me. Now I am earning a lot of money because I managed to search...
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...information technology Henok Bekele, Individual Task One 1. Analyse your personal digital footprint. Identify potential security and privacy risks and their possible consequences. As we have covered in our group tasks, literary it is not possible to avoid digital footprints. It is possible to minimizing footprints, but if we consider how present day life routine goes everything is electronic. Even if we are aware of our active digital footprints, it is easy to find passive digital footprints for somewhere on the internet. I do not take myself as an active online user. For this task, I have try to check my footprints from Google download my data and Facebook personal data request. I consider myself to be not too active online at least in recent years, even though I have able to find a lot of digital footprints and some of the digital footprint are surprising....
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... TITLE OF THE PAPER: CYBER SPACE MASS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS,INFRINGEMENT OF PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUALS, BY STATE IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. ABSTRACT: In this present era of cyber revolution and globalization, citizens have turned into “Netizens”. The advancements in the field of technology is also accompanied with the development of various methods of surveillance and intervention by the State into individuals’ private information. Governments are keeping an eagle eye by monitoring individual's movements, businesses transactions and also the means of communication, which includes cyberspace. It is alleged that the United States of America’s National Security Agency runs a program known as PRISM, which enables the US government to gain access to e- mails , conversations, pictures, voice calls and even sign in details of people using websites and applications associated with 1|Page Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, to name a few. Failure of cyber law mechanisms and national authorities to advance legislation and frameworks along with the technological developments and the increasing trends on States’ surveillance practices has created an environment in which citizen’s right to privacy is easily violated, leading to human rights violations also and lack of accountability, which raises questions on the legitimacy of such act of state. This research paper will mainly be focusing on this issue of privacy...
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...around for a long time - but only a small percentage of all companies advertize on TV !! - radio - some very successful companies, like Sleep Country Canada advertise on radio KEY POINTS Schneider uses the term "Disadvantages" but we can interpret this to mean the same thing as "limitations" . WTGR . o Technical Limitations o Non-Technical Limitations o Technical Limitations costs of a technological solution some protocols are not standardized around the world reliability for certain processes insufficient telecommunications bandwidth software tools are not fixed but constantly evolving (ie. Netscape 3,4,4.7,4.75 etc.) integrating digital and non-digital sales and production information access limitations of dial-up, cable, ISDN, wireless some vendors require certain software to show features on their pages, which is not common in the standard browser used by the majority Difficulty in integrating e-Commerce infrastructure with current organizational IT systems see also www2.ellinogermaniki.gr/ep/agroweb/htmls/lessons/commerce1/112.htm Some of the points in the above list are adapted from Schneider et al Electronic Commerce 5th Ed. and Turban et al Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective 2004 o Non-Technical Limitations . customer fear of personal...
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...Running Head: THE EXISTENCE OF PRIVACY WITH TECHNOLOGY THE EXISTENCE OF PRIVACY WITH TECHNOLOGY Obediah Howard Bellevue University THE EXISTENCE OF PRIVACY WITH TECHNOLOGY Abstract This research paper will discuss the relationship between privacy and technology. It will attempt to ascertain if technology and privacy can share the same plane of existence. Benefits and deficiencies of a particular technology are not hereditary to that technology, but are depend on their application. The public insists on accountability of technological innovation and assurance that privacy will remain intact. Striking a balance between enabling technology to enrich lives and restricting it from invading privacy has to be addressed. Implementing controls to protect private data is imperative. Technological advances over the years have challenged the public’s perception and expectation of privacy. Technology and one of its preeminent by-products, convenience, will continue to grow exponentially for the foreseeable future; there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Privacy finds itself in a precarious position in the face of evolving technology. The collective concept of privacy has to be revisited. With the advent of technological innovations and the accessibilities they bring, privacy in its purest form does not exist. From an anthropological perspective, privacy is a relatively modern development. Ancient cultures practiced communal...
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...Privacy is a valuable interest and is now threatened more than ever by technological advances. Privacy is defined as the ability to control the collection, use, and dissemination of personal information (Fast Trac Course ). At one time people could once feel confident that what others may find out about them would be treated in a way that it would probably do any harm. Information technology has been beneficial for privacy. By having access to ATMs and online banking we rarely have to present ourselves to a teller. Online shopping offers similar benefits such as being able to shop without standing in long lines and being able to compare prices and research products before purchasing. However, since so much of what we do daily is done using a computer, it can pose a serious threat to privacy. This information can then be recreated to create detailed personal profiles that could not have transpired in pre-digital days. Furthermore, this information can be distributed far, wide, and immediately without our consent or even knowledge. Judicial remedies are unlikely to produce a satisfying or sensible balance between companies’ economic prerogatives and customers’ privacy interest. New technologies that has either unconsiously adopted or resourcefully applied privacy practices will continue to threaten personal privacy. Business will have to find ways to address this uneasiness. If companies remain complacent, underestimating the degree to which privacy matters to customers, harsh...
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...in technology there are many topics of concern that raise red flags and force people to reevaluate what needs to change in order to make sure that the very principals we hold as a country are not bent to meet the demands of changing technologies. Concerns over personal and private data who can see what and at what point is personal data no longer private. Identity theft is another issue as people become more and more willing to use computers to bank and pay bills they are more at risk of another person electronically stealing their information. Ethics surrounding information processing, the information being inputted into database about you may be incorrect and if so, it can have very serious financial or medical ramifications. Now with digital media copyright infringement has a whole new level of concerns amongst artist and protecting their individual works. In the article titled Computing Ethics Surrounded...
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