Information privacy

ALA news states ""some school districts block access to websites containing information about foreign countries, such as China and Iran, even as those websites are required online reading for the Advanced Placement curriculum."" Poor children are the most affected because they ""are the most likely to depend on school and library provided…

Is There Really Privacy with Cameras In the article, “Smile, You’re on Camera” By John Mcelhenny, there are surveillance cameras watching all around us, but are you comfortable with no privacy. In Boston “Selevitch says there are parts of Boston where nearly all of the streets and sidewalks are covered by video cameras.” These cameras help police, transportation areas, and preventing theft. However there are issue wondering what the governments use of surveillance cameras. I think…

Where do I see myself as vulnerable to surveillance? I believe that question has an obvious answer. I’m vulnerable to it everywhere, all the time. Someone may have tapped into the camera lens at the top of my computer screen and is watching me type this very essay. While I walk to go eat lunch, I pass students on their phones. How do I know they aren’t taking a picture of me, intentionally or not? Maybe they’re making a phone call. Any remote noise I make can be transmitted to whoever the…

Discuss the concept of a "reasonable expectation of privacy”. In our textbook, it states, “The Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against an unreasonable search and seizure governs only the public sector workplace because the Constitution applies only to state action” (Hartman, 2014, p. 342). This is part of the Bill of Rights that must be followed by probable cause and respected by everyone. When I get on social media, sometimes I don’t recognize how long I’ve been on. If an employee…

"The government monitoring everything you do on your computer has been a debate being discussed in recent years. Some citizens believe it is an invasion of privacy, but others deem it necessary for their protection. Another topic that has been recently brought to people_Ñés attention is cyberbullying, and whether or not the government is protecting people from it. Cyberbullying, or online harassment, does not have a specific definition people can accurately go by; it depends on the situation.…

Security and privacy are two important elements aimed at protecting information and ensuring that no external factors interfere with them. These two elements may be incorporated in any instance of life, from personal information all the way to corporate information. The National Security Agency considers these two elements as necessities to ensure protection of citizens against criminal activities and attacks. However, each of these elements is significant in its own way as they have difference…

1. Introduction Information can be considered as the new currency of the current digital era, and it’s highly imperative for organizations to safeguard their information from falling into the wrong hands. The existing technology landscape provides multiple platforms through which information can be aggregated, propagated, and used for varied purposes. Educational Institutions have started using these technology platforms to aggregate a diverse range of student information like personal…

Lee Humphreys draws on his research as an analyst to explore issues of privacy and surveillance with the advent of the iPhone and other ‘smartphones’. Humphreys suggests the use of new information technologies leads to increased surveillance in a networked society. Using the case of Dodgeball, a mobile service that distributed location-based information of users, he categorizes surveillance that present in the everyday usage of Dodgeball into three different categories: voluntary panopticon,…

aspect, both from what we knowingly divulge on social media to other bits of information we don’t, such as our location through GPS on phones. Colleges have started to use data and information to completely transform higher education, to allow for higher retention rates and produce higher graduation rates than recorded in history. There are also many downsides to this new technology as it invades many student’s privacy without their knowledge as it goes beyond tracking students’ performance in…

Privacy is something really important on the internet because privacy means the condition of being free without be observed or spying. Also, it means information of people that it cannot be seen for other people because it is private. According to Michael Castelluccio, there is a violation of privacy on the internet because people published things such as emails or important information, so there are unknown people or maybe people who work in the government which have access to that information…