Monday, April 12, 2010

Notes of essay presentation:

Culture:
  • Very little info is private
  • it can be used to steal identity
  • Info is all over the internet
  • Their are laws to keep info private
  • Europe is stricter than the US in matters of privacy
Rights OF individual
  • Some problem are in biometrics in the case of privacy
  • Some argue that it is evasion of privacy
  • Undemocratic
  • Other regulation regarding data collection with the government
  • US has loose privacy laws
  • Many sites to dig in about people.
  • Not illegal to stalk people
SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES

_Ethical issues
  • Most laws require databases to perform tasks to collect data.
  • Data base must inform owner that his data is being collected, and also.
  • They must also give access to owner to change and edit info about himself.
Responsibility for the security of Data
  • Database is updated as recent as twice a day
  • Many Hackers today steal information from companies that you trust with your information
  • People must try to check to see if their are any threats and if so one must freeze the account as soon as possible.

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