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¶ … Glenn Greenwald notes in his TED Talk on why privacy matters, the Internet is a great tool both for sharing and for spying and surveillance. Greenwald makes an important point about not viewing the world as made up of good people and bad people (as though only bad people have a reason to want privacy -- so that they can hide what they are doing from those who want to protect the world, aka the government). In reality, the government is responsible for terrorism by arming, training and funding "moderate rebels" and promoting extremist ideologies in the Middle East. It is a pure 1984 play -- an Orwellian nightmare come to life. Those who have no problem with government surveillance are essentially saying that "I have agreed to make myself such a harmless, unthreatening, uninteresting person" that no government will have any reason to look at them. By what if government is not the force for good that people think it is? Greenwald's journalistic work has gone a long way to uncover the reality about our Western leaders and what they are really doing behind the scenes, and all their spying is just another way for them to control the populace, through fear of incarceration (should...
For this part of the assignment I conducted brief Google searches, using my name as a key word as well as other key words like "address" "number" "court" etc.
-- Where you live: I was able to find my address on Radaris.com. It appears that there are several online sites that provide this information. This was the first one I used.
-- Where you work or go to school: This information is readily available on Facebook, because I have already shared it there a number of times, either through random posts or profile information.
-- Telephone numbers: My mobile phone is on a real estate page
-- Names and types of any pets: My pets names (dogs) are on Facebook page, again because I put them there.
-- Where and when were you…
Works Cited
Greenwald, Glenn. "Why Privacy Matters." TED, 2014. Web. 5 Feb 2016.
They suggest that the laws necessary to protect informational privacy from unauthorized collection and use simply must catch up to the realities presented by modern digital technology exactly the way the laws now prohibiting unwarranted wiretapping of telephones once lagged behind the obvious implications of failing to incorporate the needs posed by modern technology into appropriate legislation (Levin, 2012). Competing Interests and Positions On balance, there are legitimate justifications for imposing
According to the current laws, which are not really up to speed yet, an employer can monitor employee email if he or she has a legitimate business purpose for doing so. There is a belief that, because the employer has an email and computer system for employee use, the computer system (as well as the resulting email and browsing history) is the property of the employer. While this makes sense,
In this sense, internet privacy represents a challenge indeed. Internet privacy is a relatively new term and the definitions are therefore rather scarce or general. For instance, it can be defined as "the ability of individuals to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others." (Givens, 1999) in this sense, privacy is a matter of personal choice and is therefore subject to
Internet Privacy The greatest challenge to the legal foundations of the Internet is the continual assault on individual privacy, brought about by continually loosening standards as to how personal data is used, stored and tracked online. Foremost among these threats is the relentless use of personal data from websites, social networks and other online forums where people are coaxed into giving up as much data as possible to support advertising strategy-based
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Even sex, she said, because everybody has a sexual nature. In other words, she accepted living her life as "an open book." She saw the trend on Internet web sites such as Myspace as an extension of life in a small town. The difference today, however, is that a record is being kept for all time. The Einsteins and Ghandi's of tomorrow will be there, sharing their thoughts, feelings, revelations,