Technology Research

Assignment 2: The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age

Student Name: LaToya Preston

Class: Leg 500

Date: 05-05-13

Professor: Dr. Muhammad

List and describe at least three technologies that allow an individual to research citizens' private data.

There are different types of technologies that will allow an individual to research

a citizens' private data. Global Positioning System (GPS), Spy ware, and Social

Networking. Global positioning systems (GPS) is a navigation and precise-positioning

tool developed in the early seventy's by the department of defense. Although GPS was

originally designated for the military, its applications have extended into the public sector

to provide researchers the specific location of an individual. The global positioning

system is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time

information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the earth where there is an

obstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

Spy ware is any software that covertly gathers user information through the user's

internet connection without his or her knowledge usually for advertising purposes. Spy

ware applications are typically bundled as a hidden component of freeware or shareware

programs that can be downloaded from the internet. Spy ware is "designated to be

difficult for remove and the collection and transmission of information can be completed

without the individual's consent.

Social networking services are freely provided with and individual's private data.

Social networking services are web based platforms built to facilitate communications

between internet user, "when creating an account users disclose private information about

their social contracts and interests by including friends, business associates, and

companies in their networks". Services such as...