Leg 500

The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age

Essie Sullivan

Dr. Cantrell

Legal 500 Law, Ethics & Corporate Governance

January 27, 2013

1. List and describe at least three (3) technologies that allow an individual to research citizen’ private data. In the opinion of the researcher, citizen’ private data is most important because citizen’ are concerned how their personal private data is viewed by a company, business, and public. Listed as follows below are three technologies that allow an individual to research citizen’ private data.

a. Cloud computing is one particular technology used to access citizen’ private data. It describes an on-demand, scalable, subscription-based consumption of technology services. The services are supplied from external sources and may be accessed over the Internet. Also what is promised by the “Cloud” is that information technology systems will be information systems, only, which is designed to allow users to focus on what he/she seeks and not where it is stored. For example, a user no longer has to worry about where data is stored in a machine (technology) or in a business or on a continent. Accessing the Cloud, data retrieval is simply a few clicks away from finding the information you seek. Therefore, in the opinion of the researcher, private data may not be as private as one is lead to believe. Retrieved January 27, 2013 from http://www.studymode.com/essays/Digital-Privacy-1060874.html.

b. A second technology that allow an individual to access and research a citizen’ private data is “intelius.com without any effort. It is one of the more popular technologies. Furthermore, it is a very popular site among Americans to get information of a person living in the United States of America. The site even sells background check information which includes a citizen’ address and other private pertinent data. Retrieve January 27, 2013 from...