THE APPLICATION OF PRIVACY LAWS TOPIC READING: City of Ontario‚ California‚ et al. v Quon‚ et al. 560 U.S.___(2010) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. What were the material facts of City of Ontario‚ California‚ et al. v Quon‚ et al. (Ontario v Quon)? Petitioner Ontario (hereinafter City) acquired alphanumeric pagers able to send and receive text messages. Its contract with its service provider‚ Arch Wireless‚ provided for a monthly limit on the number of characters each pager could send
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credit card information‚ private notes‚ bills‚ etc.‚” would you think that is invasive to your privacy or even illegal? Spyware allows the holder to monitor every touch of a key that the victim makes and everything that they do online. Also these parents are arguing over this software and asking themselves if they trust their children on the internet. My statement is that spyware is a large invasion of privacy and parents do not think that their child isn’t responsible‚ don’t let them use it in the first
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No Privacy on Social Media Every time a photo is taken or posted on social media‚ the government will have access to it. There are over 66% of American adults that use a social media account on a daily basis. This includes over 900 million posts a day on Facebook and over 340 million tweets per day on Twitter (Browning). Everyone wants to share what they are doing with their friends. American adults want their friends to see what they are doing and where they are at. Through the whole world‚ people
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Facebook Privacy Issues Research Paper COURSE TITLE: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN COMPUTING COURSE NUMBER: CIS 4253 SECTION NUMBER: 831 INSTRUCTOR’S NAME: March 8th 2011 I will begin my paper by letting it be own that according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project‚ approximately what percentage of U.S. adult Internet users age of 18 and older have a profile on an social network site? The most likely answer to that is around 35 percent of internet users
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Cybercrime and privacy Have you noticed that today the Internet becomes the main means of communication and education considering each perspective? Everyone “surfs” on the Internet “chats” on the Internet… and the slang concerning the Internet has already been deeply rooted in societies worldwide. It is widely accepted and its drawbacks are completely neglected. Generally‚ the whole latest inventions‚ dating from 80s hither are uncritically established. Observe that the prefix “cyber-“is
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National Security vs the Right to Privacy In 1776‚ America’s founding fathers made it clear the primary and constitutional responsibility of the United States government was to provide safety for its citizens. In addition‚ it became the American government’s duty to protect its constituents against any threat of terrorism. This role is not taken lightly in the United States‚ due to the fact that Americans value the security and safety of their country. However‚ there are others who believe civil
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Many people assume that they have a right to personal privacy no matter what the circumstance. This is a reasonable assumption; no one wants details of their conversations‚ movements‚ and actions publicized after a traumatic event. Often times people want the opportunity to grieve‚ recover‚ or processes what has happened to them without having to worry about what they have done or said being put on display for the country to see. On the other side of that‚ humans are inherently curious creatures
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Privacy in Modern Societies Of all the human rights in the global archive‚ confidentiality and privacy are conceivably the largest problematical human right in this era. Classification of privacy differs commonly by circumstance as well as locality. In countless diverse regions and cultures around the world‚ countries have involved the right and justification of privacy with data or information protection‚ which interprets privacy with reference to managing delicate information. Outside these strict
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A person’s right to privacy is a fundamental human right that can neither be subsumed under law nor derogated from any nation’s constitution‚ however legislation is still needed in most countries to provide a framework for its definition and regulation. In Nigeria‚ a citizen’s right to privacy is spelt out in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999); Section 37 ‘Right to Private and Family Life’ provides: ‘the privacy of citizens‚ their homes‚ correspondence‚ telephone conversations
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advantages. One of the concerning issues is the personal privacy. In internet age‚ privacy‚ as defined by Alan Westin in Privacy and Freedom (1970) is “The claim of individuals‚ groups or institutions to determine for themselves when‚ how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.” The current advanced computer technology increases capabilities to track‚ store and analysis personal data‚ which threatens individual’s privacy and security in using ICT. Though surveys showed that
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