Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment 1
Question 1:
I choose the site Webinvestigator.org. This sites advertises that you can have access to the marriage, divorce, birth, and death records of someone. Also you can see their felony records. They can perform background checks, business searches, and phone searches. And they also do neighborhood checks, so you can see if any sex offenders live near the area. And they claim to have information on 90% of US residents.
Question 2:
I think that this information should not be available for the public. I believe there are privacy issues involved because our privacy rights are violated when sites like this ones rummage around and expose our private information to the public for just $4.95 dollars. On the page it says, “Search requests on public officials, juveniles, and/or celebrities are strictly prohibited.” And I found interesting that if those persons are prohibited from being searched, why not everyone, why only protect the privacy of such persons? I am not concerned with good people having that type of information regarding me, but there a lot of bad people in the …show more content…
Businesses are swiping customers’ licenses to get the information saved on the bar codes or magnetic strips. Common information found on the driver licenses and additional information like marital status, phone number, housing value, income range and profession. Their main purpose is to detect underage drinkers and fake IDs, however a lot of businesses are also using their information for marketing purposes in order to understand their customers better and know how to efficiently advertise to each customer segment. The major problem with this is that most of the cases customers are not aware of what is happening when businesses are swiping their cards. And unknowingly, customers are sharing their personal information to businesses. It also is a problem because that information is not regulated and could end in the hands of wrong
I choose the site Webinvestigator.org. This sites advertises that you can have access to the marriage, divorce, birth, and death records of someone. Also you can see their felony records. They can perform background checks, business searches, and phone searches. And they also do neighborhood checks, so you can see if any sex offenders live near the area. And they claim to have information on 90% of US residents.
Question 2:
I think that this information should not be available for the public. I believe there are privacy issues involved because our privacy rights are violated when sites like this ones rummage around and expose our private information to the public for just $4.95 dollars. On the page it says, “Search requests on public officials, juveniles, and/or celebrities are strictly prohibited.” And I found interesting that if those persons are prohibited from being searched, why not everyone, why only protect the privacy of such persons? I am not concerned with good people having that type of information regarding me, but there a lot of bad people in the …show more content…
Businesses are swiping customers’ licenses to get the information saved on the bar codes or magnetic strips. Common information found on the driver licenses and additional information like marital status, phone number, housing value, income range and profession. Their main purpose is to detect underage drinkers and fake IDs, however a lot of businesses are also using their information for marketing purposes in order to understand their customers better and know how to efficiently advertise to each customer segment. The major problem with this is that most of the cases customers are not aware of what is happening when businesses are swiping their cards. And unknowingly, customers are sharing their personal information to businesses. It also is a problem because that information is not regulated and could end in the hands of wrong