Privacy law

What is employee Surveillance? Is it against employee’s privacy? Does your boss have the right to track you or your device while you are on the clock? What is data mining? Who collects and keeps our personal info? Is our search on Google in danger of being leaked? Are our phone calls being spied on by the National Security Agency [NSA]? When we have a person come to our house to repair or deliver something the person driving usually gives us an exact time that they are going to be there. I have…

hidden cameras that transmit and record visual images that may be watched during the time which the activity is taking place or reviewed later on tape. They are often connected to a recording device, IP network, and/or watched by a security guard or a law enforcement officer. Cameras and recording equipment use to be fairly expensive and required someone to monitor the camera footage. Due to cheaper production techniques, it is simple and inexpensive enough to be used in home security systems,…

Not only can genetic databases be of use in the medical field, but also for FBI purposes. With the help of a national genetic database, the FBI would be able to quickly identify missing persons, cadavers, and criminals. The intention of obtaining a genetic database is to solve murders and identify other victims that could only previously be identified as Jane or John Doe. The International Homicide Investigators Association claims that nationally there are more than 40,000 unidentified cadavers.…

drones have the risks to privacy. Drone are new phenomenal, techniques raise some privacy concerns about data privacy, individual privacy, intellectual property rights, and private property rights. Drones installed other high-tech apparatus and frequently stemming from cameras. (https://citiesspeak.org) Many people raised concerns doing the drone operations, without asking any permissions over private property owners, organizations, or business. At the state level privacy issues are addressed…

delivered to our doorsteps due to our increase independence in technology because of our laziness? As easily it is for a drone to deliver a pizza to your doorstep, is to deliver a bomb likewise. One should treat these small, flying vehicles the way the law treats weapons—as devices capable of potential danger. And it is for that reason that I believe that their restriction is in order for our own well…

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…

Post 9/11 Privacy Rights: The Case Against Electronic Surveillance In response to concerns about terrorism after the attacks on September 11,2001, the government of the United States enacted new guidelines for conducting surveillance on the public. This paper will discuss the implementation of electronic surveillance as a tool to combat terrorism and will make the case against sweeping electronic surveillance of American citizens and others in this country. Various examples of increased…

“Attack Drone”. Sometimes depending on their area and usage they are also used to call “Spy or Surveillance Drone”. According to “60 Minutes – Drones over America HD” there are some issues which Drone industry will face like privacy and other law which will limit the usage of laws. Drone industry is growing day by day. Companies like Amazon wants to deliver the packages using drones which will create lots of air traffic. It will create more hassle for FAA. Positive…

They say that fame has a price but is giving away your privacy and having people photograph your every move worth being famous? From flying paparazzi drones to harassment the life of a celebrity seems to be portrayed as glamour. As the brilliant Anthony Liccione said “ Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.” Paparazzi are blood thirsty animals ready to snap a photo of a celebrity in the wrong place at the wrong time just to ruin…

Employees should have the right to a reasonable amount of privacy “A co-worker who was changing light bulbs, one day in October, 1995, stumbled on the camera, lying on a newly installed shelf near the ceiling. He pulled the tape from it and watched the video with Nelson, who was shocked to see herself changing clothes” (Lewis 20). Gail Nelson was a secretary at Salem State College in the Small Business Development Center. She choked, when she saw a videotape in which she was changing her…