Internet privacy

“The Constitutional Amnesia of the NSA Snooping Scandal” has formed a valid question in my mind. How can President Barack Obama “assure us that we need not be worried about the National Security Agency listening to our phone calls or monitoring out Internet use,” when we are assured by the Fourth Amendment’s “ban on general warrants on indiscriminate searches without probable cause”? How can America’s president possibly think that the NSA’s programs are “healthy for our democracy” when we have…

Snowden the "Hero of Our Time" or is he the "Traitor if Our Generation"? This paper is going to bring this topic to a final conclusion. Listing below will be facts, news reports, and general social media opinions that have been sweeping across the internet. It will also include facts from NSA reports from Snowden’s email. All brought together to show if Snowden is indeed a hero, traitor, or none of the above. For starters, who is Edward Snowden and what exactly is he being accused of. Edward…

Therefore, a website uses' COOKIES which comprises of a small portion of text file stored on the user's computer in the form of a name-value pair. Cookies are used by websites to keep track of visitors, to keep user information like username, address. When any web application that is utilizing cookies, When the Server sends cookies and client browser directions to store it. Then the browser sends the cookie to the server till the page is needed again.Therefore cookies is a standard interview…

Incognito When you are camouflage behind a wall of inconspicuity, you do not have any concern about who or what you are tormenting. Masked by anonymity, the anonymous feel empowered and untouchable by those who they harass. For instance, Miss Strangeworth a sadistic, unsympathetic, and unyielding antagonizer who uses undisclosed letters to provoke the ‘evil’. A person such as herself may be categorized into the toxic disinhibition faction. Miss Strangeworth surmises that nobody will ever…

The U.S. government has a long history of using various kinds of surveillance tools to monitor citizens’ activities. During the Cold War, the FBI ran a domestic counterintelligence program called COINTELPRO protect the national security from hostile foreign threats; however, the program evolved into an effort to suppress non-violent protest groups and political dissidents with an array of illegal activities (Hutchinson). COINTELPRO negatively influenced the Civil Rights and Black Power movements…

Fourth Amendments, raises serious threats to privacy and civil liberties…

Data brokers or information brokers are someone or a company that collects data on a consumer information around the world and selling it to whoever will pay. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse writes that data brokers are “companies that collect and aggregate consumer information from a wide range of sources to create detailed profiles of individuals. These companies then sell or share your personal information with…

an extremely debated topic for many citizens. One person might contemplate what are the costs, and benefits; which was one of Katerina Hadjimatheou’s many points in her article on surveillance. Other citizens might ask themselves, how much of our privacy are they willing to relinquish for the “common good”, before we end up giving up everything? What will our future look like? Throughout the duration of this paper I will be assessing Moxie Marlinspike’s article, Why ‘I have Nothing to Hide’ is…

Privacy Laws and Social Media: Society Encased in a Paradoxical Struggle During the process of researching the subject of social media, I encountered several articles that discussed the topic of privacy. The authors of these articles discussed that the rise in technological advancements led to an increase of information being shared online. This topic intrigued me and it led to me researching further. This topic piqued my interest further as social media was the cause of privacy laws being…

Jeffrey Rosen’s oddly titled essay, “The Naked Crowd”, actively attempts to prove that the concept and actions society has adopted are ruining our identities and compromising our privacy. The idea Rosen busily disapproves of across the text is that Americans prefer openness rather than privacy. Rosen yearns to remove this logic from people. He explains how their mentality plus the latest technology at their hands, causes an unacceptable consequence. For exposing ourselves to feel accepted and…