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| Eddie_the_Kid
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Subject: 4) Has privacy changed due to increases in technology? | |||||
| I think at the very least, the legal stand point of privacy is changing due to these technological advancement. With increased governmental survellience in play, and websites tracking your movements and selling the information to the highest bidder, and a number of other aspects it is clear that the landscape is changing. For example, both Canada and the US have recently (within the last decade) enacted online privacy laws that restrict what kinds of information can be collected and sold as well as who it can be sold too ("Online Personal Privacy Act", 2005, p. 2 & "Canada's Privacy Policy", 2005, p. 3). However, this protection has its limits. There is as of the late 1990s a type of lawsuit that has come to be know as John Doe Anonymity or CyberSLAPP cases. In these legal situations, someone posts a message anonymously on the internet which another person or entity did not like an thought to be slanderous or defamatory. The Second person or entity then files a law suit in order to discover who the poster is and proceed with legal action. These kinda of lawsuits are becoming more and more common in the US with precidents going both ways (giving the information or protecting the privacy of the poster), (Vogel, 2002, pg. 2-3). As the legal climate is changing, it is important for people to try and keep up to date and know how their privacy is protected or not. There is a second way that privacy is seeming to change that does not involve the governmental/legal kind of rights. The advent of social networks like Facebook seems to have led individuals to give up their privacy and post every aspect of their life on the internet for anyone to see. I think that this shift actually further supports Moore's control definition of privacy. control implies that you must actually exercise the right or your risk losing control. Therefore, those that post increasingly disturbing amounts of personal information to a social networking site are actually forgoing a certain level of their privacy. Sites like Facebook do have privacy settings so you can decide who can see your information and this would be an example of exercising that control. If a person opts out from this then they should understand that what they post is essentially public record and that they as individuals are giving up a degree of their autonomy along with their privacy. Further research could be done here in order to determine if this false belief in privacy while making information public will lead to long term effects/damages to personal/social development as a result. |
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