The Importance Of Security And Privacy

Register to read the introduction… “Governments, corporations, and other organizations interested in protect privacy will strive to increase security, but they will also have to reckon with the likelihood that such measures are sometimes going to fail”(Singer 463). In other words, security and privacy go hand in hand with one another. Security is the freedom of information while privacy is the ‘openness’ where people allow their personal information available to the world. They must maintain balance but in most cases usually one is favored over the other. “Network publics are simultaneously a space and a collection of people”(Tomescu, and Trofin 309). However this ‘openness’ is similar to a library where all the information is at your disposable meanwhile, the freedom of information where everything that is secretive is included into your knowledge but with the choice of keeping the information under the table for others. Privacy is the act of respect of not intruding into another person’s space, belief, thoughts, opinions and etc. For instance, imagine an outdoor café where a citizen is sipping hot chocolate as they enjoy the warmth of the sun shining day on autumn day. As the outside world is running at a fast pace, the citizen is in their own world as they type away on their laptop. While online a pop up appears on the screen but as soon as the citizen deletes it, more appear on the screen. Businesses, job offers, sales and etcetera appear agitating the citizen. On an emotional scale perspective, the citizen feels as if they were single handed bombarded with unnecessary issues that are not important at the moment. Many people experience a similar situation when electronic devices are used to target them into a deeper spiral of no privacy. At the same time many people discover that things in their everyday lives -- such as games like ‘Angry Birds’-- were used as a cover up from the …show more content…
Yet in a fast paced life, humans don’t stop and think about these occurrences and continue on living their lives. Connecting to Restak, he stated that technology has enveloped humanity into a restricted time limit to our surroundings as technology is at our central focus. Because the brain’s attention span is short to focus on things, we move on to the next activity without hesitant. Since too many issues are going on inside a person’s life, the majority of the population does not have enough