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    The issue of internet privacy has been a topic of discussion throughout several years. The Obama Administration worked diligently to establish federal regulations to protect the U.S. citizen’s internet activity. Unfortunately, the federal regulations that provided these protections were not set to go into effect until the latter part of 2017. With the new presidential administration in office these regulations have found their way onto President Trump’s desk within the first 100 days in office. A

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    How Private is our Privacy on Internet? 1,846 words Stephen Hawking, a well-known scientist and researcher once said, “We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain”. In other words, he meant that the internet is helpful to us, in every way, from getting the information around the world to getting connected with everyone. The world today is an age of internet where there is life in and outside of the web. The internet is very powerful and convenient, so that it has

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    Privacy on the Internet      Ever feel like you are being watched? How about having the feeling like some one is following you home from school? Well that is what it will be like if users do not have the privacy on the Internet they deserve. EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), a advocacy group that has been fighting the Clinton Administration for tougher online consumer protection laws, and other privacy protection agencies have formed to protect the rights and

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    The definition of privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. With so many people watching and sharing information this information is nonexistent. Now a days technology advances every day and it evolves the way we live in a lot of different aspects for example like the way we communicate and share information with one another or the world. Almost everyone affiliates with the internet in one way or another. Along with the advancements of technology

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    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

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    Another benefit of internet privacy is the benefit of researching without restriction. If a person knows that his or her searches are being monitored, that person will be less inclined to research the topic of interest if it has anything that goes against the stance of the current government. However, with privacy, a person could research evidence and examples about whatever topic they would like to without hindrance and make their own conclusions based on a wider variety of sources. The quality

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    331531789 IST 618 Summer 2017 online Policy Essay #2 Privacy In today’s world, Privacy and Security comes hand in hand with internet. Technology allows us free speech and freedom of information over the internet, by imposing strict laws and policies regulating the privacy and security of our information. According to Richard Clarke, free expression over the internet and its privacy are two sides of the same coin (Privacy and security(n.d.)). Writing blogs, uploading posts

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    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

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    The Internet of Things is one of the fastest growing parts of information technology. With the rapid increase in Internet of Things device around the world it has become a problem with securing one’s privacy, Internet of things range from a typical smart phone to a smart air conditioner or a pacemaker. Because of these simple devices one can overlook the security and vulnerability of these devices such as their privacy concerns. You ever feel like you’re being watch, or that your smart phone

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    The purpose why internet privacy be invented is because the scientists hoped that the hardware, software and data in its network system can be protected from accidental and malicious damage, alteration, disclosure. Also wanted its system can be continuous and reliable Running, network service is not interrupted, etc. But as for today, there are still lots of aspects like viruses and rogue software are unchecked. The causes of virus and rogue software's rampant are both human factors and systemic

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