Expectation of privacy

The issue surrounding Snoweden’s leaking of information to the Press can be argued as ethical or non-ethical. The leaking of this classified information could have become a security threat to the United States, which raises an issue of whether it was his place to tell the facts regarding the actions of the NSA to the American people. Another ethical issue was is it his duty to inform the people, even though he took an oath to keep classified information secret. The last ethical issue is did he…

To begin, the government should not be permitted to use surveillance on its citizens because it violates the constitution. According to a series of secret court orders issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, “the NSA effectively granted itself unrestricted access to every American’s complete phone and Internet records, all without any independent oversight.” This means that American citizens are being violated of their right to freedom of speech guaranteed by the constitution.…

devil’s advocate when you think in terms to why he did it. When Edward did this, he did this illegally by releasing the information that was top secret. However, he was looking out for the people and their privacy. According to our book Snowden stated “If we want to be free, we can’t give away our privacy (Kroenke, & Boyle, 2015, p. 419)”. He believed that out rights where being violated due to the nature of the surveillance that the NSA was doing. Snowden may have believed that what he was…

Privacy Act 1988 is an Australian law that used to regulate on handling the personal information (Australian Government, 2015). Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) consists of principles are the basis of protection framework in Privacy Act 1988 and placed under schedule 1 with a total thirteen principles that organizations and government agencies should comply (OAIC, 2014). It is not necessary to follow each of the principles stated in APPs, but organizations are required to consider the…

What is Apple? Apple is a multinational technology company. So far Apple has had a problem with the FBI. The FBI wanted Apple to create a new software that can hack into a person’s iPhone to examine their personal information, but Apple refused. Apple’s decision on not allowing the FBI to hack into people’s iPhone was right. In the article entitled PRO/CON: Should Apple have resisted FBI pressure to hack an iPhone? By Tribune New Service, examines the area in which Apple had the right or not…

For the “Good Thing/Bad Thing” assignment I chose to watch the first episode of Black Mirror, a British anthology series that features controversially dark and sometimes satirical themes that examine modern society, particularly in regards to the the unknown future of technology. Despite finding the first episode highly disturbing to the point of comedy, I found myself indulged in the series as a whole and even got excited upon hearing that Netflix will renew the series for another season. The…

Marisa Taylor is an investigative reporter and Jonathan Landay is a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, based in Washington, DC. The National Security Agency (NSA) is turning down requests from individuals who want to find out whether the agency is holding records of their telephone communications. Simply answering yes or no, the NSA argues, is classified information that would jeopardize the effectiveness of its data-collection program. That means that…

belongings in order to keep the community safe. Safety is not as important as privacy. Officials should not be able to use information they obtained from private devices or social networking sites in order to protect the community. There are many reasons why officials should not be able to monitor students’ online activity. For example, monitoring someone else's online activity and phone snooping is an invasion of privacy and a violation of freedom of speech. Gregory Diaz, a criminal…

In the TED talk, “A vision of crimes in the future” Marc Goodman speaks about how advancing technology is used for crime. From terrorists to robbers, the use of technology allows these people to have an advantage over law enforcement. The terrorist attack in Mumbai used modern communications to allow the terrorist to have an advantage over the police by having a live feed of information from a control center. On the other side of crime is the advancing of gene and cell technology. The same…

Direct Quote Would you rather risk national security or your own personal privacy? Right now that is the question for all Apple users. The FBI is requiring Apple to create a software to get passed the auto-erase feature on the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooters. They believe that there is important information on their phone about other terrorists. Kurt Opsahl, general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital rights non-profit explains that “the…