Internet privacy

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…

case we are faced with an employee caught in the crossfire or an employee setting boundaries to protect employees, students and other involved, but also violates those same groups right to privacy. Under most circumstances, those employed by the city, state or federal government are subjected to limited privacy. Organization are often uncertain were to draw the line between protecting the company’s assets and employees while providing a safe and secure work and school environment. In this…

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…

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…

Informatics Electronic Health records: A boon or privacy nightmare? Health records are supposed to be private and secure. This article shows how not all health records end up being private and secure. Health records were stored in different ways. People were trying to steal private information. Then you had people that didn't know they could be committing a crime and saw it as no big deal.Health records were supposed to be secure years ago and now. If health records were put in the wrong…

E. Thompson, there are imperfect ways to spy on citizens around the world. The government is finding ways to use surveillance to notice what is going on around the world. But some actions that they've taking lately aren't really "protecting ones privacy." It can be many ways that unsolved crimes could be solved so increasing all the technology in the world can be safe and unsafe. The government makes decision's on what happens in the world already, but some are satisfying and some decision's…

As the victim of a crime, Sindiswe has the following rights as stated by Bellion (2010). The right to be treated with fairness and with respect for dignity and privacy, the victim has the right to be helped promptly and in a provisional manner. Measures have been set in place to prevent secondary victimisation. The right to offer information during the statement giving process, the court process as well as at the parole hearing. The right to receive information, gives you the right to be…

to have in an essay or article because it illustrates how the author feels toward the subject. Tone can either capture the interest of the audience, or kill it. In the statement, “Yet inside that small device now swirls a critical debate over our privacy” (Albom 1), Albom uses certain words to express his tone. For example, using the word “critical” sets across that the author feels this situation is extremely important. Also, using the word “our” lets the reader know that the author feels for…

In a dystopian society, truth about government actions is generally kept from the citizens. Information that is free to the public in a utopia is not free to those living under a dystopian government. Keeping secrets from the general public for their “benefit” isn’t the correct way to conduct the public’s business. If today’s government keeps enough secrets from the citizens, it can eventually lead to a dystopian society. There have been many cases where the US government has abused its power…

“There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency” (Snowden, qtd in Pope). Edward Snowden made this statement following his leak of thousands of classified documents to the press. The contents of these documents shed light on the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance system. However, this system was not only being used against the United States’s enemies – U.S. citizens themselves were…