Assignment 2

The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age 1

The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age

Strayer Univeristy

Tonya E Woods

Professor Augustine Weekley

February 12, 2013

The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age 2

Introduction

In this paper you will find the different ways that technology invades the privacy of consumers. Also, this paper will describe the advantages and disadvantages the way the public will be able to access the information of private citizens. It will also the measure or how far a person can go to research the data on an indiviaul.This paper will also the describe the federal laws and alo determine the electronic privacy laws.

1. List and describe at least three (3) technologies that allow an individual to research citizens’ private data.

A technology that allows an individual to research private data is the Global Positioning System (GPS). This “is a navigation and precise-positioning tool” developed in the early seventy’s by the Department of Defense. Although GPS was originally designed for the military, its applications have extended into the public sector to provide researchers the specific location of an individual (Glasscoe, 1998).   

A malicious technology that can be used to research an individual’s private data is spyware.   In general, it is software that can be loaded on an internet ready device, such as a computer or smartphone, with the sole purpose of gathering and transmitting one’s private data to another person.   Spyware is “designed to be difficult to remove,” and the collection and transmission of information can be completed without the individual’s consent (Microsoft, 2012).   

In contrast to spyware, social networking services are freely provided with and individual’s private data.   Social networking services are web based platforms built to...