b. Whether you use social networking sites or not, what type of information should you avoid posting on these sites?…
As a result of recent lawsuits against many organizations, companies have developed a policy on proper email practices on company computers. No longer is your personal email regarded as private when accessed on a company's computer. Companies, in order to decrease lawsuits and increase productivity, have purchased email monitoring software to track email usage during work hours. Therefore, with the onslaught of email monitoring, is a private email really private?…
This piece is primarily directed to educators and administrators. This article seems like it is attempting to convince them,…
The article, “Too Much Privacy is a Health Hazard,” by Thomas Lee, discusses the role of privacy in…
Words and phrase that mean one thing to one person may mean something completely different to another. Also words that mean one thing in one language may mean something different in another language for example Spanish and Italian are different languages but there are a lot of words that mean the same thing in both languages the same as…
Consider the technology that defines everyday life in America- texts, email, internet, and phone calls. In performing these constant activities, most never questioned their privacy, that is, until Edward Snowden squealed on the NSA’s less than ethical maneuvers. Without citizens’ consent, the American government was collecting metadata, “all the information surround a call, including the caller’s number, the receiver's number, the time and location of the call, and how long it lasted” (Diamond). The government may have been shooting for just the bad guys, but all American civilians got caught in the crossfire. Nothing would exempt a person from these invasions of privacy, and their data would be scanned and stored just like that of a seasoned…
Privacy is Utterly Dead Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor at Princeton University and the University of Melbourne that studies Bioethics, Philosophy and Public Ethics. His essay “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” focuses on transparency and personal privacy. One can see after reading this essay, Singer is in favor of openness, but he also notes that the government misuses these technologies by having sousveillance and surveillance cameras. A person needs to understand how privacy, surveillance and sousveillance is defined to understand why he was in favor of openness.…
As Solove puts it, “privacy, in other words, involves so many things that it is impossible to reduce them all to one simple idea,” which can be found in Solove’s article “Privacy Matters” (Solove 181). What Solove writes about in “Privacy Matters” is essentially why the “I-have-nothing-to-hide” argument is entirely untrue (Solove’s “Privacy Matters”). Everyone has something to hide, it just may not be something bad (Solove’s “Privacy Matters”). As technology becomes more and more sophisticated, the concept of privacy is disappearing. These days, any information, whether it’s what an individual purchases, or what grades they got in high school, can be found. This information can be distorted and misunderstood, which may create a false image…
The purpose of this paper is to explain what I use to protect my personal privacy. There are many different things that can be use to protect someone’s information and keep hackers from accessing their computer. Some people use anti-virus, firewalls and anti-spam software to help protect their personal privacy. As we all know with today’s technology having just anti-virus or firewalls are not good enough, but having something is better than nothing. They do not protect you from new or custom-made viruses and evil-scripts. There is no one solution to protect you from Identity Theft, it’s just too many threats to keep up with, and having one software will not do the job for you. One key to protecting your information would be multi-layer protection; this means having more than one program monitoring you computer for different reasons.…
No wonder every invention has its own advantages and disadvantages. Likewise Information technology has also its own advantages along with its disadvantages. Information technology has surprise the world. It has made the world global where communication and networking from one end of the world to other end is easy and fast. It has brought together the friends and family living in different parts of the world. It has change the leaving style of the people. The era before the invention of information technology and after the invention of IT is totally different. Television, cell phone, laptop, desktop, tablet, has become peoples necessity. The social networking websites, twitter and other internet-based tools are changing the way of people sharing personal information, political views and commercial purposes.…
Confidentiality is the protection of personal information. Confidentiality means keeping a client's information between you and the patient, and not telling others including friends and family. (Learning, n.d.). For example, the information about a child suffering from Cystic Fibrosis should not be disclosed to anyone other than the child and his/her parents.…
In today’s society, the word “privacy” has become ubiquitous. We see it every day; on HIPAA…
25% of registered social networking users had posted sensitive personal data about themselves on their profiles. This included details such as their phone number, home address or email address. (Ofcom social networking sites research/Get Safe Online Report 2007).…
McNealy is right when he says that we have less privacy than most of us think we have, but for him to say we should “get over it” is wrong, because we do have a desire to keep private things private. Today, we don’t have as much privacy as we use to, because of the way technology is changing and the advancements of the world. I believe that you are only as private as you want to be. What I mean about that is; if you want to get on Facebook, MySpace, send emails, and so on to friends and other people on these networks discussing all of your personal business and things that are happening in your life , then your information is no longer private. That means once you send something to others, it is out there in cyberspace forever and will never return.…
The second consideration for the findings of the survey lead to the fact that our access to clear and concise information, with the invention of the internet, has made American’s more informed. Or more likely, the invention of social media, for example Facebook. Our parents shared their political views and information through written and spoken word. However, with technology as it is today, we can start a virtual petition, organize discussion groups on Facebook and even share factual information with the click of a button. This thought conflict with Shenkman’s Gross Ignorance, pg 17 which states “The error can be traced to our mistaking unprecedented access to information with the actual consumption of it.” This quote leads me to another point which is the concept of personalization of…