Discuss the problem of privacy and the Internet:
Privacy is a big issue in today's technological world. In the article "Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations" they state that today information now flows freely among radio waves in our wireless devices and along fiber optic cables that connect the evergrowing cloud data servers. It’s cached, distributed, forwarded, copied, mirrored and indexed. Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and a host of similar sites all store huge amounts of our personal data. No one is immune. Even the former director of the CIA can be tracked. In the name of national security, law enforcement agencies can obtain a search warrant for this metadata. Facebook privacy is very confusing. Think twice about posting stuff on Facebook because most likely it could be seen by anybody. "Possession is nine-tenths of the law." But whom do all of these
digital photographs belong to: the person who posed for the photograph,
the person in the background, or the person who took the photo. It is extremely rare for someone to not have a digital print. Every computer at a minimum should have a firewall and anti-virus software. Preferably it should also contain anti-malware and anti-spyware programs.
I agree with you, it is really not hard to find other person's information or pictures because they can just search their names on Facebook, it will have everything on there.
ReplyDeleteYea that whole article about the CIA director just shows how weak our own system is. So whats to say that we can even stop the problems outside of our own country, if we can't even control ours.
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