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Privacy Matters: Introduction to Sociology.
As Glenn Greenwald points out, the Internet has been turned into a tool of mass surveillance, notably with the NSA always lurking and spying on the Digital Era’s best means of communication. To some extent this type of spying and violation of privacy has become accepted as the norm because sociopolitical discourse in the modern era presupposes that there are two types of people in the world, as Greenwald puts it—those who are good (who do not plot against the state) and those who are… Continue Reading...
automotive accessories and parts.
The website has in place a comprehensive privacy policy that outlines the various ways through which the website may not only gather, but also make use of and disclose customer data. The contents of the privacy statement include; scope and content, global privacy standards, collection, use and retention, choice, access, disclosure, security, important information, and questions or complaints (eBay, 2018). On the basis of my intensive review of the website’s privacy policy, I submit that the said policy is not only clear, but also reasonable and relevant to the kind of business the website carries out.
Some… Continue Reading...
positive or negative impacts on certain fundamental rights. An example of an issue that has generated such debates is privacy rights i.e. whether some federal laws infringe on individuals right to privacy. This paper will examine the positive and negative impacts of federalism on privacy rights and identify the most significant impact.
Positive Impact of Federalism on Privacy Rights
The right to privacy is one of the core concepts of contemporary liberal constitutional ideas in the United States (Lim, 2015, p.415). Actually, the right to privacy is a principle that is embedded in the architecture of the U.S. Constitution, especially on the Bill of Rights. In light of recent… Continue Reading...
to the major moral challenges linked to internet privacy, right from social media privacy to governmental surveillance. However, all stories have two sides, and this necessitates a closer examination of a few existing moral issues associated with internet privacy. Firstly, one needs to examine the chief element of guidance provided by the law on the matter of internet privacy. Possibly the most straightforward moral problem under the 'internet privacy breach' umbrella is malicious software (e.g., spyware) utilization for perpetrating cybercrime and stealing private data. A number of cybercrimes are made illegal by the governments of nations like the… Continue Reading...
1. The constitutional foundation for the right to privacy is multifaceted. However, this right is implicit to the right of liberty guaranteed by this document. In particular, privacy is a manifestation of the civil liberties which all citizens are assured of in the U.S. Constitution. The preamble to the constitution states this fact. The preamble reveals the Constitution was created in part to “secure the Blessings of Liberty” (Founding Fathers). The blessings of liberty quickly become a curse if there is no privacy. If people were able to see and become cognizant of everything everyone did, then people… Continue Reading...
Internet privacy: Social media posts that lead to an employee being fired
The virtual world that is the internet resents myriad of challenges particularly when professionally dealing with the internet in a organizational setting. The issue of knowing what should be put out there and what should not has been contentious issue among many organizations and employees have found themselves at crossroads over what they post as individuals on their own behalf and how people interpret such posting over the internet and its effect on the image of the organization. Several… Continue Reading...
Privacy and Security: Apple vs. Federal Government
With increased usage of smartphones and other mobile devices, concerns over unauthorized access to private and confidential data stored in the devices have soared. In recent times, Apple Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones in the U.S. and worldwide, resorted to robust cryptographic techniques in an attempt to protect data customers store on its devices. The move has led to a fierce battle between Apple and the federal government, with the latter citing national security concerns. The government's concerns over national… Continue Reading...
for one priority and that the laws should be written so that they provide security and protect privacy. The laws need not be secretive (Do the National Security Agency Surveillance Programs Violate American Citizens' Civil Liberties?).
There is a school of thought, which believes that keeping the surveillance laws secretive is important since it makes it easier to gain insight into terrorist activities and foreign powers. If the logic is followed, then when the congress passed the foreign intelligence Surveillance Act in 1970s, they ought to have found a way that could make it secretive. This would make it difficult for the Soviet agents to know what… Continue Reading...
1. Privacy laws are continually in flux. The most recent blow to consumer privacy was the 2017 Congressional overturning of Internet privacy protections. According to the ACLU, those pro-privacy laws “would have prevented ISPs from sharing our browsing history with advertisers, forced ISPs to be clear about what information they’re collecting, and required ISPs to take reasonable steps to protect our data from hackers,” (ACLU, 2018). Several states, including Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and most of the Northeast have since begun the difficult process of working to reinstate Internet privacy laws… Continue Reading...
Right to Privacy and Consenting Adults: Examining the Sodomy Cases
The 1986 case of Bowers v. Hardwick represents the continued legacy of homophobia of the era. This case demonstrates how homophobia has amounted to longstanding oppression for gay people, and has continually thwarted justice from protecting them or ever serving them. Michael Hardwick was in his late 20s when he was bartending at a gay bar in Georgia. He threw a beer bottle into an outdoor trash can and was written up by the police for public drinking (Bazelon, 2012). The terms… Continue Reading...
care that is reviewed for quality assurance purposes is protected both by information access and privacy legislation in Ontario and by common law across all Canada. Specifically, it is protected by a number of Acts. For instance, there is the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) that is a federal law impacting all parts of Canada and serves to protect personal information from being shared. There is also the Quality Care Information Protection Act, which is Ontario law and which "protects the quality assurance/peer review process only if it is conducted by or for a hospital committee designated specifically as a quality of… Continue Reading...
ethical principle of freedom as well as privacy also needs to be respected. Criminalizing drug users by placing them in prison is more unethical than the use of drugs itself, which can be considered a morally neutral act.
Week 3 -- Discussion 1
Policy is often drafted using general language, so that it can be applied to different situations. Using generalized language allows the policy to cover multiple variables or contingencies. Yet herein lies the weakness with policy -- it is sometimes too vague. Policy cannot possibly encompass all situational variables, and this is why informed individuals… Continue Reading...
record is confusing for the person receiving the document.
The organization should ensure it observes the privacy legislation requirement when dealing and handling client and employees personal records and information. Privacy means that all sensitive information should only be accessible to authorized employees. Confidentiality should also be maintained for all the information recorded on the information system.
Information Systems to be Used
The organization would need to have these types of systems in order to solve the issues they are currently facing:
Financial Management System: The system will manage all the accounting aspects of the organization.
HRM System: This system will be mainly concerned with the… Continue Reading...
providing more data sources, types and amounts of data to contextualize analytics and influence decision-making (Harper, 2016). It appears to be a threat to everyone's privacy because of the pervasive data collection and storage involved.
Topic 2: Managing Knowledge
Knowledge capture and management is critical because it allows for an improvement of business processes based on fact. Tacit knowledge is harder to work with because it is less verifiable than explicit knowledge from an empirical standpoint.
UNIT 4 DISCUSSION
Topic 1: Intelligence, Design, Choice
Intelligence typically involves analyzing the market and how one's entry to it can affect it. Design involves architecting a business model, supply chain, customer base, and other parts of business. Choice… Continue Reading...
and limited people's rights. Some examples of these limitations include restrictions on privacy, limitation of free speech and association rights, and limitation of religious freedom. While these actions were necessary to help prevent another attack, they are inappropriate since they compromise civil rights and checks and balances established in America's democracy. The federal government would have taken less drastic measures through reordering priorities of law enforcement instead of generating fundamental changes in law.
Week 5: Discussion
In the American judicial system, the Supreme Court reviews very few cases most of whom are appeals from lower courts. It should not be mandatory for… Continue Reading...
in the 4th Amendment including the exclusionary limits. The question arises on what exactly the limit of an individual's privacy penumbra is. There is a question as to how an individual's trash content becomes public property. Is trash that has been removed from a person's house and prepared for collection property that can be subjected to public scrutiny? Does one's right to privacy extend all the way to the garbage dump? Should one expect privacy even after it has been exposed to public view and scrutiny? More importantly, is the question whether evidence acquired from garbage at the curb can be used as sufficient evidence to obtain a search… Continue Reading...
Amendment chiefly stressed governmental trespass on citizens' private property to procure information or find incriminating articles. Katz's standard of fair expectations of privacy furthered, rather than repudiated, that understanding (United States v. Jones | Case Brief Summary). Only Katz applies here, and not Karo and Knotts. The latter cases are different, as the beeper wasn't attached to any piece of property already in the defendant's possession. In Katz, physical law enforcement encroachment on protected territory for garnering information is evident. Alito, Breyer, Kagan and Ginsburg were of the same mind and did not agree to the majority opinion that technical trespass leading to evidence is a search activity. They maintained that Katz… Continue Reading...
needs, using this technology has very real and practical advantages. At the same time, there are privacy rules and regulations that have to be considered as the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution clearly gives people the right to privacy. Nonetheless, Homeland Security requires that the nation consider the evolution of terrorism and view it not just as an external threat but also as an internal threat. In other words, terrorism is not just a variable or factor that comes from outside the borders—it can also come from inside. Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism can result from the radicalization of members of society who are disgruntled,… Continue Reading...
security or privacy settings, their algorithms, and their user interfaces.
II. Various Social Media Platforms?
a. Facebook
1. The most popular. As of June 2017, Facebook has 2 billion monthly users (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/)
2. Facebook is a global social media platform.
b. Instagram
1. Image-driven, with 800 million active users each month (https://www.statista.com/statistics/253577/number-of-monthly-active-instagram-users/)
2. Interfaces well with other social media like Twitter
c. LinkedIn
1. Designed specifically for career development, human resources.
2. Different from the other social media. Active monthly users is 500 million (http://fortune.com/2017/04/24/linkedin-users/)
d. Twitter
1. 328 Million active monthly… Continue Reading...
Confidentiality Breaches in Clinical Practice
The confidentiality and privacy of patients are considered as one of the fundamental freedoms that they should enjoy and are safeguarded under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA). It is also a precept of the American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics and the Hippocratic Oath. The breach of confidentiality is unethical and illegal.
Medical professionals are under the obligation of protecting the patient’s confidentiality. Confidentiality and privacy prohibit medical providers from unlawful disclosure of the patient’s information. Some of the inappropriate disclosures include discussing a patient’s case in the elevators… Continue Reading...
