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Privacy In The Information Age

            
             Today you are required to provide a lot of information for the smallest things. You are asked to provide information such as: first and last name, middle initial, age, birthday, any siblings or children and their ages, parents" names, household income, pets, and your social security number on various types of applications, and forms for various organizations and reasons. At the end of any application or form you more often than not you have to provide them with a signature. All of the above information can link people to greater amounts of information about your personal life and possibly even your family's lives.
             Take for example when you fill out a form for something as simple as grocery shoppers saving card and all the information you must provide them to simply save a few dollars each time you go grocery shopping. In a sense they are paying you for your information by giving you discounts. The grocery stores can then turn around and sell your information to third party companies and organizations for money in their pockets. The third party companies are the ones who call you want you to but their products or are the "junk-mail" senders we all hate.
            


Essays Related to Privacy In The Information Age

1. The Information Age: An Explotation Of Privacy

The Information Age: An Exploitation of Privacy Personal privacy and the right to personal privacy have not always been sought after individuals. ... However the Freedom of Information Act did not ensure that the agency would supply the citizen with the information only because an individual asked for it. This technicality was one loophole that was identified and addressed in the Freedom of Information Act that lead to the Privacy Act of 1974. ... In another Supreme Court ruling a New York law that "required the recording of the name, address, and age of every patient obtaining certain pr...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Privacy

Running head: WORKPLACE PRIVACY IN THE INTERNET AGE Abstract Employers want their employees to do a good job, but employees do not want their every move logged. ... Workplace privacy in the internet age Module 5 - Workplace Privacy Issues Introduction The workplace in the United States has undergone a dramatic shift in the way business is conducted due to the introduction of the ubiquitous personal computer. ... Finally, businesses are cognizant that users allowed unrestricted use of information technology resources could potentially seriously compromise information security, so...

  • Word Count: 2249
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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. The Importance of Maintaining Privacy

In this manner, not only the civilized societies can give people privacy but also the higher status of an area can supply the more opportunities for people to restrict the revelation of their private information. However, there is opposite view defended by some people that civilization in some areas that could not make people's privacy more private, it just change people's lifestyle more strictly by setting some obligatory rules for not to getting out of their private information. Unfortunately, this process begins in the earlier age like the educational system in those communities ...

  • Word Count: 1291
  • Approx Pages: 5
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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. "High Court Judges Make Law to Keep The Law Up To Date"

The primary statute of the anti-privacy act is the privacy act. 1988 The original version applied to the Commonwealth public sector. ... It could be argued that in this day and age more changes are occurring every ten years than it did each century before the nineteenth century. ... Information technology is changing the way a society operates and conducts itself. ... Stored information is accessible information, before the privacy act was written individual's personal medical record could be accessed without their consent, which caused outrage, society demanded a change in law to protect...

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  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

5. Internet Privacy Issues

Internet Privacy Laws Internet privacy laws have been passed to protect different groups in different ways. ... This has been a growing concern for many activist groups who oppose the use of the Internet as a tool to promote child porn or communication to children under the age of 18. ... This act made it unlawful to post materials that are harmful to minors on any website that is available to those under the age of 17 (Tulsa, 2002). ... One person should not be withheld from media or information on the web because the website could be accessed by minors. ... These issues include the priv...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Employee privacy

The computer age has changed the way we do business. ... The employee has the duty to not distribute company information. ... On the other hand, monitoring e-mails at work does not allow complete privacy of the individual at work. ... If the employer is collecting e-mails and reading them, then the employee's privacy is violated. ... According to the Privacy Act of 1974, "No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communications to any person, or to another agency- (Privacy Act). ...

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7. Torts: Right to Privacy

The web collects information about its users at all times and without notice ; often some websites collect information from children without parental involvement. ... This type of exploitation of individuals personal information without their consent or knowledge leaves may Internet users feeling as if they have no privacy . ... As a result of intrusive technologies and sophisticated data collection systems, the right to privacy has shifted from an expectation of being "left alone- , to a desire to control the flow of personal information . ... In this context it may be said that privacy in...

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  • Approx Pages: 16
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. Teen Privacy

The age old debate about teens and their privacy have gone on for years. Should teens be allowed any privacy? ... While trying to mature and age their way up to being an adult, they are at the same time trying to find their own unique identity. ... In addition to the old privacy problems, a new privacy problem has developed. ... If they have a home loan from a bank, then the bank will need to know a lot of personal information before it will approve them for the loan. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

9. Facebook's Unethical Privacy Changes

In some cases, the warning of the privacy change may be too late. ... There were many groups being created like Change the privacy settings back! and We need our privacy! ... They can either limit the type of information they provide on the site, or they can discontinue their use altogether. In this day and age, there is always another option to connect to other people. ...

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