Privacy on the Internet

There is no doubt the privacy of our online activities and the integrity of our communications have been the biggest casualty of the NSA’s surveillance of our lives. Although ongoing revelations of government eavesdropping have had a profound impact on many different aspects in life. The NSA must balance out their interference with citizens lives because it’s undermining the government's leadership on internet safety, deteriorating internet security, and is causing economic losses to U.S. businesses due to decreasing customer trust.

With our dependency on technology and computers growing in just about every aspect of our lives, from at home to business, we are leaving our information out there for anyone who has the desire to try to get that information. When computers were first used by business and the government it was easy to secure the information stored on the room sized machines. It was as simple as securing the building and rooms that they were in. Now after the invention of the World Wide Web and how we are connected through a series of networks from Personal Area Networks to Wide Area Networks, Any criminal that has the computer skills can potentially gain access any information they desire. Securing our information on our computers and over the networks we use

“Privacy is dead – get over it”, according to Steve Rambam, a privacy investigator who specializes in Internet privacy cases, this is how he considers privacy to be in today’s society. He is just another entity living in the midst of a high technology society to whom privacy seems to be dead when reaching the Internet. With all the traffic on the Internet, the risk of private information falling into the wrong hands is excessive, and with all the advances in computer technology the rate of privacy loss is increasing as well. With the right knowledge and experience in technology anything on the Internet can be access by anyone causing an individual’s privacy to be exposed and violated..

The ease of communication means that people can use the internet in very destructive ways. Terrorist groups can use the Internet in communication as well as planning attacks on various places across the globe. This means that the government has to make sure that it is vigilant in the quest to ensure that the internet is not used in a way that can pose a threat to national security. This paper will address the connection between internet privacy and government spying (Ferguson).

In the article “You Have Almost Certainly Been Hacked” (thisweek.com), the author discusses how hackers are gaining access to private information. He specifically mentions the weaknesses in security programs, the severity of cyber attacks, as well as the potential defenses available. Poor cybersecurity has cost millions of people billions of dollars, tanked their credit scores, and devastated their lives.

"After the tragedy of September 9, 2011 and the subsequent passing of the Patriot Act, Government surveillance has expanded in the age of technology in which we currently reside. Although the stated mission of this increase in surveillance of American citizens was to prevent major terrorist incidents such as 9/11 from happening again, many people refute this stated purpose as the truly invasive extent of this surveillance was revealed within the statements of Edward Snowden, a defector from the National Security Agency. However, internet surveillance has proven to be necessary in the newfound pervasiveness of online forums and websites that contain large amounts of illegal activity such as child pornography. Altogether, I would say responsibility to

If a casual user of the internet were to Google a search for the word “privacy” as of June 2015, there would be close to 2 billion hits. Discussions of privacy, piracy and internet breaches are everywhere. The numerous Google hits show there is nearly universal agreement that (1) we have less privacy and more information than we used to, and (2) this is bad.Information itself is, of course, not bad, but as we have witnessed recently, even personnel record maintained by the United States government are subject to unethical hacking by all sorts of unscrupulous individuals and governments. Clearly, privacy is something that a great many people and businesses are concerned about. Whilenew information technologies (IT) have created the possibility of making lives easier or better, new IT has also created new conflicts with our existing business and personal norms, and laws and our traditional ethical principles. IT has even caused the creation of a new field“Information Systems Ethics” to cover these changes ( ).

The principle of freedom in the United States of America has always tied with one’s private matters. But with technology advancing at such a rapid rate, the idea of privacy might soon become something from a fairytale. Especially included, is one’s online persona. The American government has begun to derestrict itself from the bounds of an individual's personal matters online. In reception, many Americans feel that their natural given rights are being exploited. They feel that the government has no justifiable reasons to be vigilating information that is not intended for anybody’s eyes except its rightful owner. However, it is truly necessary for the government to observe what citizens are doing online because it protects both the United States

came to the realization that we do not have control over our privacy after watching the EPIC video, when it comes to using the Internet. Most importantly, the EPIC film should not raise any significant privacy concerns in my opinion. The Internet today is quite different from how it was; however, it is somewhat similar to the way our informations were gathered in the past.

Joyce, who gives lectures at University of New South Wales in their law department is more than qualified to speak about this subject because the issues that online privacy pertains to is a serious matter since online surveillance is a real threat to private personal security. No person who is a law abiding citizen should be monitored for their online usage by their own government. The goal of this writing is to show awareness of online privacy concerns and how the US and

We have all experienced it. The tingles down your spine while your sixth sense picks up someone’s harsh eyes scanning you. You are being watched. As the little hairs stand up on your neck and the chill of judgment floods your body, you choke on the insecurity that comes over you. Some break out in a nervous sweat and drown themselves in doubt; others do not hesitate to send beams of criticism back. Many stare with innocent intentions while others purposely hope to provoke anxiety. However, if you did not know that someone’s cruel eyes were on you, would it be just as bothersome? Since 2000, internet security has been an issue that many feel is a violation of their privacy. This controversial topic has hit almost all newspapers with

Privacy has always been an important value to Americans. The founding fathers valued it, and placed explicit protection of certain aspects of it in the Bill of Rights. But with the invasion of the internet, keeping privacy has become difficult, if not impossible. The question is, how much right to privacy do we have on the internet? According to the Deontology view of ethics, we have some right to privacy on the internet from the government and from websites because hackers can find the collected data and steal it and your identity, the internet is an international program, and government monitoring is violation of the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.

The words, “Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say” were said by Edward Snowden who is a computer professional in America. Similarly, the essays “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty,” “Web Users Get as Much as They Give,” and “Facebook Is Using You” from Nicholas Carr, Jim Harper, and Lori Andrews respectively points out that the internet privacy is good and bad. However, the articles by Carr and Andrews are based on the negative side of the internet privacy, which means that the internet privacy is not good. On the other hand, Harper’s article is based on the positive side of the internet privacy, which means that the internet privacy is good and scary, but people need to be careful of their own information and browsing histories, and websites. Jim Harper’s essay is more relevant and reasonable than the Nicholas Carr and Lori Andrews’s essays. However, Harper seems more persuasive to readers because he believes that the internet is good if people use it in a right way, whereas Carr and Andrews believe that the internet is not good at all.

President Trump had recently signed a congressional resolution in the repeal for internet privacy and the protection of peoples’ information. This policy was created during the Obama era by the Federal Communications Commission to protect and hide information from certain company providers from using the subscriber’s information. The repeal allows telecommunication companies to track and use the information provided by customers with ease to market and sell to others. Republicans believe these rules during the Obama era were unfair due to the restrictions that was put on broadband providers such as AT&T and Comcast while certain competition or web based companies like Facebook who use the data from those who also sign onto those sites. These same providers had suffered from the backlash of certain statements of the FFC and the rules that were not in effect. There was also the misinformed idea that they were the only ones the law pointed towards when the popular websites are not covered by the same regulations.

Unfortunately, many people even without their knowledge are violating many ethical principles such as trust, respect and security every day. Mostly a smartphone user has at least one social media app or a chat app installed. Chat apps are used to share very sensitive and private data, such as a conversation between a husband and wife, bank and transaction details, residence address, calendar schedule, etc. and social apps to share mostly photos, videos and concerns on various topics. For an example, you may share a group photo on Facebook where others in that photo also visible to many people according to your privacy settings. Nevertheless, do you always ask permission from each friend in a group photo before you share it? If I conduct a survey on this, most probably it would end with the answer of “no” which means this act clearly violates UDHR article 12 and ECHR article 8. Smartphone users widely use chat apps to text messages and send personal photos and most of these apps store these data on their servers. So where is the privacy of using these kind of apps? Do not people know this? Even they knew about the lack of privacy and security in here, still most people use these apps because of its convenient and ease of use. Government authorities are one party who may have access to these private data in a country, with or without users’ knowledge. NSA spying scandal, which was leaked by a former contractor for the CIA, Edward Snowden on