Privacy law

The aforementioned Facebook privacy cases deal with breaches to users’ private information, which those users disclosed on Facebook for the purpose of sharing with their friends and other users. Since Facebook provides various privacy controls, which allow users to customize the way their posted information is shared with others, users can expect Facebook to keep sensitive information protected from unwanted access and potential harm. However, as evidenced from the vast array of court cases and…

THE INTERNET:PERMANENT MEMORY BANK Thesis:The concern about privacy on the Internet is becoming a real problem because the Internet makes people paranoid and stressed all the time while they are using this permanent memory bank that actually means the end of forgetting.Everything that you can do online or offline,now track you through the rest of your life and can easily come back to haunt you.This situation doesn’t give people any other chances about thinking the results of what they do on…

When privacy is one of the most desired needs and the Internet is the most used and easily accessed innovations, there comes a problem. How can what one does online be private from the world and government? More important, should it be hidden? In the past, what one wanted to keep private, was and stayed as such. As the Internet was created, thousands of files of personal information suddenly became easily accessible to any sort of hacker with the right set of skills or potential monitoring by…

Do you think using spyware to monitor your children is a invasion of privacy? I do not, I was raised by my parents knowing that I do not have rights till I am eighteen or I am out of their house. I have reached an age to understand where my parents are coming from now, and why my parents went through my phone, computer, and diary’s as often as they did; they were just doing their job as my caregiver. In the op-ed article “The Undercover Parent,” by Harlan Coben (2008) claims that…

The issue surrounding Snoweden’s leaking of information to the Press can be argued as ethical or non-ethical. The leaking of this classified information could have become a security threat to the United States, which raises an issue of whether it was his place to tell the facts regarding the actions of the NSA to the American people. Another ethical issue was is it his duty to inform the people, even though he took an oath to keep classified information secret. The last ethical issue is did he…

What Laws Apply At its most basic level the Data Protection Act 1998, and the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC which it implements, has provided, until recently, the guidance on the requirements of Data Controllers, in this case owners of websites that use cookies, how to treat claims related to privacy infringements and the consequences in cases where the controller had failed in its duties. The main change to it has come with the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)…

Government surveillance, an infringement on our rights, or a necessity to our safety? Within these articles explanations and evidence are given to support why surveillance is a necessity. “In Praise of Big Brother: Why We Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Government Surveillance” by J.S. Taylor lends understanding, limit to the surveillance of people's lives and a new era for government protection. Moreover “French National Assembly Clears Bill to Expand Government Surveillance” giving…

points out the issues of trust, security, and privacy in relation to applications and websites used. Who has control over information posted through social media? Will companies stay true to their terms, conditions, and policy statements, or will they had over personal information to outside sources? Skype, a video and instant messaging application,…

although some web sites are beginning to step up their privacy policies, many more are still without a policy at all. As Mr. Berman also states in his testimony, “offline businesses and professionals accumulate personal data, but these entities can usually be trusted to use only the information that is appropriate to their own service area” (Cdt.org). If website owners do not follow this unspoken agreement, there are specific obligatory laws that will protect the users from harm. Cookie use is…

In recent years, journalists have discussed in countless articles with privacy increasingly being invaded by the greater use of drones by the general public and some law enforcements. The predominant new problem with modern technology is dealing with regulating commercial drones in the United States. Drones are an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously- consisting of the ability of functioning without an individual inside the aircraft. The controversy over done regulations is…