Pretty Good Privacy

Introduction The world today is filled with many secrets and many more who wish to know them. But what happens when someone who doesn’t fully understand the capabilities of the information they have access to has access to it? Most of the time, nothing good! This gaining of sensitive information has become increasingly easier with the advent of certain cybertechnologies. And therefore, exponentially more people know what they don’t understand. Is it really alright for people who happen upon…

My level of concern about privacy when it comes to my location and whereabouts would rank as a 7 for me on a scale of 1 to 10. I am uncomfortable with my location being tracked, but I do not think that the people with access to it would use it maliciously. I assume that the people who could possibly have access to this information would be my cell service provider and the makers of apps on my phone. I think that apps should be allowed to use this information if it provides for a better…

properly regulated, employer might intrude on constitutional rights to privacy. Is monitoring a required deterrent aimed to keep employees away from unwanted activities during working hours?…

technology plays major role. It’s in every aspect of life, it’s a new world with new rules, and different rights. The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF has addressed many issues including free speech, fair use, and innovation throughout the world. Privacy and transparency issues concern me and it should concern anybody in the word. I say this because I have the right to benefit from this technology like any other and the only thing that guarantees this is by having effective…

In order to prevent the aforementioned privacy infringements due to web site data collection, Dirt Bikes USA should pattern their site in accordance to the Platform for Privacy Preferences model (P3P). According to Laudon (2014), this platform will enable Dirt Bikes’ web site visitors to choose the degree of privacy that they would like to maintain while navigating around the web site (p. 144). Within the privacy settings, potential customers have the opportunity to do various tasks. For…

camera. A world where they could even tell who switched seats with their friends in the middle of the movie. Surprisingly, that could happen in a few years. New Japanese technology can do just that, and it has a 98% accuracy rating in lab tests so far(Privacy). What other creative surveillance methods will be around by 2025? How will they be integrated into our society? That is what I wanted to find out in my second Media Search. Having already researched current technology like license plate…

Drones have been one of the most ultimate advances in technology within the past few years. Although they’re magnificent at their jobs, they lack significantly at insulating humans' privacy and controlling air traffic. Firstly, drones are privacy pirates. According to Redcode, “while currently there a re laws to protect individuals against people stalking or spying on them in their homes, there are no federal laws in place that would protect individuals from being spied on specifically by a…

This chapter focused on the loss of privacy we have now as a side effect of the new technology. The chapter starts but talking about the book 1984 where you are always be watched and makes comparisons to what life is like now and life in the book when it comes to how much you are being “watched”. One of these examples is the camera's everywhere; For the book the use actual hidden cameras while the book states we have something worse, our cell phone cameras. Most people don’t realize how much…

Should We Ditch The Idea of Privacy by Don Tapscott is all about privacy and network. Now days we can see the use of different kind of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. People share their intimate, personal information through these social medias. I think they must have to be aware about positive and negative both side of. Sharing personal information in social media. The writer says now most of people want to share their personal information with others, which…

We all claim it; we all assume that it is one of the rights we possess as Americans. But the right to privacy is more difficult to define, and less explicitly protected than other rights guaranteed to us. The word “privacy” does not even appear in the Constitution, leading some legal scholars to deny that a Constitutional right to exists. So, is the right of privacy consider by the Constitution? This is what Professor mentioned in his speech which was held on 17th sept 2015 in Collin College at…