Blackboard Name: Sanya Murgai
PSID: 1264832
LO1: Discuss information privacy and methods for improving the privacy of information.
LO2: Explain the effects on information privacy of e-mail, data collection, and censorship.
In today’s day and age, privacies definition can be manipulated to personal preferences. Once we put something on the internet, it will be accessible forever even if we delete it. Because social media has become a huge part of our everyday life, companies search these websites to find background information about applicants, and make decisions based on that. Big organizations gather our data and most of time abuse it, and dishonor our privacy. Every bit of our information on the web has become easily accessible. For example, information can be bought and sold at a company’s expense. These companies might send us emails, which would land up in our spam folder. A person not familiar with spam could open that email and give the sender access to everything! Large firms have databases with information on millions of people, tracking their every move. Though there are privacy laws protecting us, enforcement has been laid back. A major use of social security number is to cross-reference it with all our records, making every …show more content…
Google launched its fast Internet service in Kansas City in 2012, the Web giant said it wanted to spread broadband widely and close the "digital divide." The survey, in six low-income Kansas City, Mo., neighborhoods, found that just 10% of residents subscribe to Google's Fiber service. The results suggest that the digital divide is less about where broadband service is offered -- the subject of fierce debate when Google first arrived in Kansas City -- and more about who finds it useful and can pay for it. For years people dint have the Internet, so now when it is available they question the need to have it. (124
PSID: 1264832
LO1: Discuss information privacy and methods for improving the privacy of information.
LO2: Explain the effects on information privacy of e-mail, data collection, and censorship.
In today’s day and age, privacies definition can be manipulated to personal preferences. Once we put something on the internet, it will be accessible forever even if we delete it. Because social media has become a huge part of our everyday life, companies search these websites to find background information about applicants, and make decisions based on that. Big organizations gather our data and most of time abuse it, and dishonor our privacy. Every bit of our information on the web has become easily accessible. For example, information can be bought and sold at a company’s expense. These companies might send us emails, which would land up in our spam folder. A person not familiar with spam could open that email and give the sender access to everything! Large firms have databases with information on millions of people, tracking their every move. Though there are privacy laws protecting us, enforcement has been laid back. A major use of social security number is to cross-reference it with all our records, making every …show more content…
Google launched its fast Internet service in Kansas City in 2012, the Web giant said it wanted to spread broadband widely and close the "digital divide." The survey, in six low-income Kansas City, Mo., neighborhoods, found that just 10% of residents subscribe to Google's Fiber service. The results suggest that the digital divide is less about where broadband service is offered -- the subject of fierce debate when Google first arrived in Kansas City -- and more about who finds it useful and can pay for it. For years people dint have the Internet, so now when it is available they question the need to have it. (124