Privacy is not only something that ICT users have come to expect; it is, in many cases, a legally protectable right. As IT professionals, it is your responsibility to understand the interplay between user expectations of privacy and the law.
Perform the following tasks:
1) Research the issue of privacy.
2) Answer the following questions:
1) Is privacy a right or a privilege?
2) How does the view on privacy vary in cultures other than your own?
3) If you had to balance the privacy of an individual with national security, how would you make an argument for the individual and for national security?
Submit a report of not more than 4 pages in APA style.
Resources
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Reading
Fox, S. (2000). Trust and privacy online: Why Americans want to rewrite the rules. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2000/Trust-and-Privacy-Online/Summary.aspx
This article presents a survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in 2000. It finds that users had a high expectation of privacy and that they expected businesses to preserve that privacy. In addition, online users had relatively high levels of trust. The survey presents a good sample of views expressed during the widespread adoption of the Internet in the United States.
Reading
Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (2007). Privacy, security and trust. In Sharing, privacy and trust in our networked world (pp. 3-1–3 -40). Retrieved from https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/reports/pdfs/sharing_part3.pdf
This article presents a survey conducted by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). The OCLC survey’s findings are similar to those of the Pew Internet Project survey regarding expectations of privacy among Internet users, but it has shown some significant changes in attitudes. There is a lower expectation of privacy among users, and they now discern between private and public online activities. This survey also presents multinational data and data on social networking sites.