Information Ethics and Management Assignment

Running Head: Information Ethics and Management
Information Ethics
and Management
Privacy does not really exist in today’s society

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Abstract
This essay argues in favor of the statement “Privacy does not really exist in today’s society “. In
the following essay, a short overview of the various ways has been conceptualized about the
dimensions of social privacy in today’s world.

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Privacy can be defined as the skill of the person or a group for stopping then information about
oneself that can become known to people than those whom they given information to.
Technology is such a modern thing in today’s world such a internet and social media (Tan et
al., 2012). Internet has a huge range of the applications which keep on taking a person through
one or the other. It consists of the blogs, video sites like You Tube etc. Since internet is such a
huge thing, privacy becomes almost impossible to get. Internet has become the part of
everyone’s life these days. Many people have used it replace things like the journals have
become blogs these days etc.
Information security and privacy of the data is an issue these days. This is given so much
importance within organizations which work globally and precisely in the environment which is
marked by the computer virus and terrorist attacks, hacks and vital data destruction which owes
to the natural disaster. This trend is developing across the whole world of the outsourcing of the
processes and the IT services to remote locations, leading to placing of the valuable data and
information infrastructure for service providers (Timm & Duven, 2008).
Social Value of Privacy
There are many authors who have conceptualized social value of privacy. Out of those authors,
one author named Priscilla Regan argued that privacy should be valued by and for the individual
and also by the society in general. Privacy is the value which is common for all the individuals
and they also value a little degree of privacy always. In the similar way, privacy also is a value of
public in which the value not just for any person or public on the whole but to political system on
the whole. This is speedily becoming a joint value in technology of the market are creating it
even harder for all individuals without people having similar minimum level of privacy
(Papacharissi & Fernback, 2005).
There are many such arguments done by the authors in which they focus on the social value of
the privacy. Daniel Solove said that with the understanding of the privacy that is being shaped by
the norms of the society, people can see better as to why privacy must not be taken solely as the
individual right rather than it should protect the person because of the benefits it gives to the
society (Roessler & Mokrosinska, 2013) .
Impact of IT on Privacy