Information Awareness Office

ic with each year that passes. References: Ball, K.S.(2001). Surveillance Society: Monitoring everyday life. Information Technology & People, 14(4), 414-419. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/222415193?accountid=32521 Is it legal? government surveillance.(2007). Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, 56(6), 257-261. Retrieved from http://search.proquest

stores huge amounts of personal date regarding members of the public, sometimes even children, has been lost or stolen. The main reasoning behind the government proposals is war against terrorism and the idea that if you have everyone’s personal information and whereabouts it will be far easier to prevent a terrorist attack or catch the perpetrator. However, there is a huge opposition to these said proposals. The report puts forward some questions about how mass surveillance is affecting our country

Western societies the notion that surveillance is spreading while privacy is eroding is very well alive. Throughout history it has never been easier to access information about a specific person or groups of people then it is now. With technology available to almost everyone in modern society the ability to track, view, and gather information is greater than it has ever been. Many municipalities, companies, and even private home owners have implemented Closed Circuit Television in order to surveil

Within any society, information gathering and surveillance mechanisms exist. The sophistication of this information gathering varies, but at all levels; the information gathered can be received voluntarily or involuntarily. The collection of information, whether it is surveillance received at a traffic road crossing, or satellite images from outer space, occurs every day. Everyday life is subject to monitoring, checking and scrutinizing. To find a place or an activity, which is shielded from

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States went into defensive mode, increasing surveillance and dismantling privacy rights. The Patriot Act was hastily passed just a month later in October 2001 and it severely limited the privacy of Americans and gave unprecedented power to the government and private agencies to track innocent Americans, turning regular citizens into suspects.5 In addition, the great technological evolution and emergence of social media that occurred

He also wrestles with limitless surveillance and the reasons that people are willing to be surveilled. He suggests that people are willing to divulge information willingly and submit to surveillance because there are easily distracted by the novelty of technology and they are believe that they are receiving a service in return.4 In The Truman Show the surveillance is deemed acceptable by the audience because they are receiving as good, the television and Christof reasoned that the surveillance and

In Lyon 656).     "Have computerized information systems effectively transformed Bentham's panoptic principle from a strategy which is only feasible in village-scale settings to a routine means of mass surveillance by modern states?" (qtd. in Lyon 654). Many argue that this is the case. Technology

Health awareness Organizations are confronted with steadily incongruent information gathering necessity from a wide mixture of open and private associations. The reach of uncertain information gathering issues have prompted duplications of exertion, expanded cost and lost fortunes. Social insurance includes a differing set of open and private information gathering frameworks, including wellbeing reviews, managerial selection and charging records, and medicinal records, utilized by different substances

required to implement an Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Program as mandated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum 14-03. The memorandum requires Federal agencies to manage information security risk on an ongoing basis. This document provides a high-level DOC-wide strategic plan for maintaining ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats to support organizational risk management decisions. Otherwise known as information security continuous

One of the ongoing goal of the Information Security Department is to cultivate a culture of security awareness and common approach to applying security practices. I feel that I have brought and operated under the precedence Operational excellence in my performance and working with the Information Security Department. One of the achievements is the progress made in enhancing the security awareness program and establishment of policies and processes for the Information Governance Program. One of