Privacy enhancing technologies

1. What technologies are New York and Barcelona employing to run their cities more efficiently and improve citizens’ quality of life? The New York City government uses the big data which collects from 311 program and wireless sensors to find the way to reduce the noise population. They made a noise limit ordinance for vehicles. The government also analyze the data to make the garbage collection become more efficient. The model they created helps the government to identify more hazardous dwelling. The data sifting program makes health department easily to locate the unscrupulous restaurants which illegally dump cooking oil into sewers. In the Barcelona, the government uses sensors to make sure when workers need to clean the trash can.…

Information Privacy? Privacy is something many of society takes for granted. It is something that we all are given as human beings but throughout the years, the concept of privacy has changed. Sharing personal information such as family details, personal photographs and insights into our lives have become part of the norm in society with an increase in the popularity of social media networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram. Due to this, gathering information about people has become a lot…

The right to be forgotten aims to give back to people their control over personal data and make the consent regime more effective . Personal data is a daily issue on the Internet nowadays. In this online world in which personal information can be stored, collected and used and, moreover, can be remembered forever, the issue of privacy within personal data is extremely important. It eventually becomes essential, for the goal of this paper, to define what personal data is, before going deeply…

the right to go to court and use the law applicable to defend yourself. But, almost all of the applicable “law”, when it comes to the National Security Agency and its surveillance practices, was secret until Edward Snowden began disclosing the related documents. Secret interpretations of the shady Patriot Act made in a secret court applied. The fact that an unknown number of legal memos and interpretations of that secret law are operative means that we really don’t know what is legal anymore.…

Masthead Enterprises Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy briefly explains our privacy practices for www.mastheadsailinggear.com. Our privacy policy applies specifically to information collected by this website. The following describes our handling and disposition of customer information and data, as well as, our procedures and practices of privacy: 1. Masthead Enterprises collects the minimum personal identifiable information. This usually consists of customer name, email address, phone number,…

government does not compel its citizens directly to share their private information, it relies on various kinds of surveillance and data mining technology to trace and collect individuals’ information, and then, analyzes and uses them at will, in the name of national security. It seems that the development of technology has expanded the government’s ability to profile any given person under…

Nanotechnology has a great potential to enhance our society. However, similar to many other technologies, its introduction and implementation raises some ethical issues for the scientists who are developing this technology and for the general public who may benefit from or be exposed to it. Most of the social, economic and ethical issues are exactly the same as those that affect many other high profile technologies. Although the technology is new, the issues it raises have been faced before by…

The Ethical Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology in Psychological Practice. Historically psychological practice was conducted on a face to face basis however, recent technological advances have drastically changed the way in which psychological practice is conducted (Harris & Kurpuis, 2014). This has resulted in psychologists adopting electronic mediums such as video calls and text-based conversations to conduct therapy. Major concerns have been raised over such practices and has led to…

Informational Privacy Privacy is an elaborate concept that cannot easily be defined because it entails many categories such as physical privacy, communication privacy, psychological privacy and informational privacy (Castaldo, Premazzi & Grosso, 2013, p.4). Informational privacy’s correlation to social media is the increasing amount of information available to online marketing companies and the continued “dissemination of personal awareness” users face (Castaldo et al., 2013, p.4). Thus, the…

Opportunities and Threats that Apple Faces in the iPhone Privacy Fight According to a March 17, 2016 news article in the New York Times, “Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist”, written by JOHN MARKOFF, KATIE BENNER and BRIAN X. CHEN, engineers of the Apple Company may refused to assist the F.B.I to unlock an iPhone, which used by a terrorist who attacked and killed in the San Bernardino, Calif., last December. The article emphasized Apple employees’ opposition…