Privacy Laws And Security Measures
Privacy, Laws, and Security Measures
Percy A. Grisby II
Computer Ethics
January 23, 2015
Professor Sonya M. Dennis
Privacy is the rights an organization or an individual has to collect, disclose, retain and use their personal information (Subramanian, 2008). When we talk about privacy, most of the times it deals with private information which is the information that are linked directly or indirectly to an individual. Private information helps identify customers, employees and other stakeholders of the organization (Verlag, 2012). Many organizations today are facing privacy issues which can ruin their businesses and information networks. When an organization is concerned with information on medical or health conditions, matters to deal with finances, political opinions and others such as information’s on offenses or criminal investigations, then the law defines these issues as sensitive personal information. These pieces of information are supposed to be handled with a lot of care.
In this information age where everything is technological based, there is an invasion of private space. These threats such as spam, cookies and click stream are just few examples of the challenges the organizations that are relying on IT are facing. Let’s look at some of the private issues that organizations are facing. One, there is consumer privacy which is not at all new. When consumers fill in their personal and private data, they have to keep on being worried as they wonder how the government and the organizations are using this information. A great number of people are getting into the internet and accessing the private internet’s information. This has left consumers with a lot of discomforts. Secondly, most consumers who use credit cards to make electronic purchases are faced with a major threat of fraud. Non-credit worthy orders of amount to more than one- sixth of all the purchases made through the internet. Everyone who faces these challenges have all the
Percy A. Grisby II
Computer Ethics
January 23, 2015
Professor Sonya M. Dennis
Privacy is the rights an organization or an individual has to collect, disclose, retain and use their personal information (Subramanian, 2008). When we talk about privacy, most of the times it deals with private information which is the information that are linked directly or indirectly to an individual. Private information helps identify customers, employees and other stakeholders of the organization (Verlag, 2012). Many organizations today are facing privacy issues which can ruin their businesses and information networks. When an organization is concerned with information on medical or health conditions, matters to deal with finances, political opinions and others such as information’s on offenses or criminal investigations, then the law defines these issues as sensitive personal information. These pieces of information are supposed to be handled with a lot of care.
In this information age where everything is technological based, there is an invasion of private space. These threats such as spam, cookies and click stream are just few examples of the challenges the organizations that are relying on IT are facing. Let’s look at some of the private issues that organizations are facing. One, there is consumer privacy which is not at all new. When consumers fill in their personal and private data, they have to keep on being worried as they wonder how the government and the organizations are using this information. A great number of people are getting into the internet and accessing the private internet’s information. This has left consumers with a lot of discomforts. Secondly, most consumers who use credit cards to make electronic purchases are faced with a major threat of fraud. Non-credit worthy orders of amount to more than one- sixth of all the purchases made through the internet. Everyone who faces these challenges have all the
References: Verlag, G. (2012). Investigation of internet privacy issues within social networking. S.l.: Grin Verlag. Jayson, S. (2014, March 12). Social media research raises privacy and ethics issues. USA Today. Retrieved October 5, 2014, from http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/08/data-online-behavior-research/5781447/ Subramanian, R. (2008). Computer security, privacy, and politics current issues, challenges and solutions. Hershey PA: IRM Press.