Information Technology Vs. Privacy

Information technology and the long time debate of privacy has evolved and changed continuously through the years to form to the personal need business needs. The concept of privacy and the privacy of data have become a much needed commodity. Privacy can be grouped into two different definitions on being descriptive the other being normative, depending whether they are used to described how individuals perceive a situations and conditions and the way they are value as well as their constraints to the processing of information. The normative sense discusses how the un-absolute moral right of persons control over access to of personal information, personal acquires information about, and technology that can be used to produce information about …show more content…
Policy’s such as the P3P are introduced under certain websites visited to reduce unneeded information or data without the user’s approval. Privacy and anonymity can be broken up into several different subtopics, depending on what areas of technology they affect. Data anonymity focuses on personal devices such as tablets and smart phones, the data collected on these devices need to be protected or deleted, sensitive information in the wrong hands could be detrimental to the individual. Like data anonymity, connectivity anonymity allows users have to take steps protecting their privacy when connecting to the …show more content…
But most valued aspect of freedom the internet offers is freedom of identity; people are using a false identity to further the concept of anonymity. Although, using these forms of anonymity has led to an increase in cybercrimes and identity theft. Because of the rise in cybercrimes government officials and law enforcement have had no choice but to step in to provide policy’s and laws against the breech of personal data and information. Even cyber activist group such as “anonymous” has taken steps to secure social privacy, even when their intentions are seen as