Internet privacy

Post 9/11 Privacy Rights: The Case Against Electronic Surveillance In response to concerns about terrorism after the attacks on September 11,2001, the government of the United States enacted new guidelines for conducting surveillance on the public. This paper will discuss the implementation of electronic surveillance as a tool to combat terrorism and will make the case against sweeping electronic surveillance of American citizens and others in this country. Various examples of increased…

Why should you care if your being tracked? If we track you, we would be able to send you free coupons in return. who does not want free coupons? The authors says, “[even] if these methods seems intrusive, at least some costumers seem happy to trade privacy for deals”(Clifford, Hardy 112). He does not want an…

Many users on the internet distrust communication, sharing, and storing in fear of government surveillance. Many cannot express their will freely because they are aware the government will be supervising their data. If people know that there is a government data base that…

electronic devices watching or listening to you.The privacy violations Americans experience today are similar to the privacy violations in 1984 because the government spies on us through our phones, listen to our conversation through mics, and track us through our wifi and GPS. In the book “1984” by Orwell, Big Brother had this thing called a “telescreen” that watches the people's everyday move. The people from Oceania are getting their privacy violated by these telescreens. An example…

Nearly everyone has deleted their web history in the past just so others cannot view what they have done. Deleting our history on the internet is a way we protect our privacy, but this method of keeping personal may not help people stay private. Privacy is something that is very important and something that everyone has in common, but in the past few years that privacy barrier has been broken multiple times and the freedom of keeping secrets has been taken away. The National Security Agency…

Do American citizens know that the government and online companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are obtaining personal information, possibly even their exact location? Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Today, privacy is a thing of the past because of all the tracking and eavesdropping that is occurring in the digital age. People unknowingly and knowingly give companies access to their photos, camera, and microphone. The…

Laws and privacy There have been various laws that were established in order to protect privacy. One of these laws are Australia’s privacy principles ( APPs) which according to the Australian government these principles ‘regulate the handling of personal information by Australian government agencies and some private sector organizations’. The privacy act 1988 includes these privacy principles and the (APPs) consist of the gathering as well as the use of people’s personal information (Office of…

Should we be concerned about surveillance throughout the places we go? If so, why? Is it not meant to keep us safe? These are the questions I asked myself as I walked along Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles. This street, along with Broadway street in Downtown Los Angeles, hold an important piece of history due to the fact that many significant events have occurred there. The 1970 Chicano Moratorium, for example, took place on Whittier Boulevard and immigration rallies have taken place in…

Many will argue that we should have our privacy and leave it at that. If the government did not have regulations on the people how would they protect us? Ask yourself this, what is more important, your privacy or national security? Many Americans expressed their disapproval as two classified operations were exposed. Examples of the government spying on their own people, through phones internet services etc. “Yet, most showed little concern about their own internet activities or phone calls being…

Privacy and Protection In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother exploits surveillance to spy on everything from people’s daily actions to the thoughts in their mind’s privacy (Orwell). This book has left a horrifying image to its readers with the idea of the invasion of privacy through manipulation and misuse of surveillance. As extreme as that sounds, this could be the near future of Americans if surveillance continues to grow. Due to the disclosures of Edward Snowden on the flaws of surveillance,…