The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age
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. Though IT has lots of advantages on people’s life; it has brought some disadvantages with it as well. Privacy has become a big concern on this great achievement of the technology. People are so worried about disclosing privacy on social network like face book, twitter, my space, and some other networking sites. Even President of United States of America, “Barak Obama” has big worry on the privacy issues about her elder daughter Malia being on face book. In an interview with MTV (published in yahoo news on October 26, 2012), President Obama told: “I'd worry about Facebook right now, " he said.”I know the folks at Facebook obviously they've revolutionized, you know, the social networks. But Malia, because she's well known, I'm very keen on her protecting her privacy."(October 26, 2012) One can access information of an individual private data without any effort. One of the popular technologies that allow an individual to research citizens’ private data is intelius.com. This site is very popular among Americans to get information of a person living in United States of America. They sells back ground check information which includes, address