Pretty Good Privacy

For those unfamiliar, the FBI recently was found to have hired some of Best Buy's Geek Squad technicians as paid informants to track down and eliminate child pornography. For most this issue is pretty cut and dry; if the FBI wants to hunt child abuse/pornography then let them. But when you examine the consequences of this FBI policy you realize that there are a couple of constitutionally-questionable practices that compromises the integrity of…

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…

intimidated or frightened and think that these surveillance systems will make them feel safer. However all this are false promises by this systems. According to ACLU, these systems have so many errors that render them inefficient in their task of security. Good example is the facial recognition systems that are used in Tampa, Florida. The systems have shown great failure and cannot even differentiate between the male and the female images. These errors are further made worse by the human…

9/11, The NSA, the National Security Agency, increased its domestic surveillance in the United States to protect from foreign invaders and inside threats. But let’s be honest, have any of us really benefited from this increase of our invasion of privacy? I mean for all we know the government is just being nosey and is trying to find someone to blame all their problems on. Why spend all this money on increasing something when all it’s done is create more problems? Obama and his administration…

any national security reason and the legislation of any bill should be opposed. One reason is the government will be restricting our privacy if they collect our DNA. The second reason is that the government will want more power and control over the people. The collecting and storing of DNA for any reason shouldn’t be allowed because it is an invasion of privacy. The collecting of DNA creates a society where the government knows all about you or an Orwellian society. The collecting of…

Everything you do electronically can be tracked, saved, and manipulated, regardless of where you are. Widescale spying occurring today eerily mimics George Orwell’s 1984 in an imminent and frightening way, as average people are no longer as private as they used to be. In 1984, Winston is trapped within a totalitarian government that watches everything its residents do or say. These residents are spied on everywhere they go and are never immune to government overwatch. In the United States today,…

second a user goes online, their location, websites they visit, and countless other things are available to the government. Sometimes impersonal information is sold to marketing experts and analysts for research. Although it fells like a violation of privacy, the government should be able to monitor the internet to prevent hacking, provide accurate information, and stop serious criminal activity. Many people are using credit cards and personal information to pay for things online or they create…

technology there comes the invasion of one's privacy. There is a debate on whether companies should be allowed to track consumers preferences without their permission. Tracking one's preferences or movements can be beneficial to not only the manufacturer, but also the consumer. The companies are then able to comfort the consumers needs, keep them healthy, and reduce the amount of wastes. There is no problem in invading one's privacy for their own good and the good of the environment. Therefore,…

Privacy is a state that provides a barrier from the world outside and puts an individual in control of the information they want to present to the masses. However, one question that has lingered since the conventional times and that is “what we want to keep private and what we want to make public” (Singer, pg 59.); where should be the line drawn. This debate is discussed by Peter Singer in Visible Man Ethics in a world without secrets. One of the points he makes is that privatization is a…

The right or other concerned that would override the right privacy would be the right to liberty. The emphasis on the right to liberty is one of the most important human rights further emphasizes the individual characteristics of modern approaches to right. The right to liberty generally the purchase each individual as entitled to persuade projects and plans as hear, she sees fit as long as they do not interfere with other peoples right to liberty. Each person is seen as an island, and the…