Ethics and the IT Professional - Assignment
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Added on 2021-06-17
Ethics and the IT Professional - Assignment
Added on 2021-06-17
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Running head: IT PROFESSION AND ETHICSThe Future of Privacy: Digital Life 2025Name of Student-Name of University-Author’s Note-
IT PROFESSION AND ETHICS1What is privacy?The word privacy means being in a place or in a situation that allows to do thingspreventing other people to see or to disturb. Privacy includes the right to be alone and free fromall the interference and problems (Pelekis & Theodoridis, 2014). The information privacyincludes right to have control over the personal data or information that are generally collected orare used. Privacy includes right to be free from secret surveillance and then determine when, howand whom to reveal the personal information or information of organization. In general, theprivacy is divided into four categories known as physical privacy that implies other’s restrictionto access the data or situation through human senses; second is the information privacy thatimplies restriction on revealing the facts, which are unknown to others. The third privacyincludes decisional privacy that implies restriction on interfering the decisions taken by an entity.The last privacy act is the dispositional privacy implying restriction about the attempts to knowthe state of a particular person. Overall, privacy is a practice to keep things or situation secretfrom others. What is Digital Privacy?Using of digital technologies including mobile phones, internet basically provide newopportunities in development sector about how to plan and ho to co-ordinate the activities,mobilize, expose secret truths, as well as engage new audiences (Ferrell, 2017). But using of newtechnologies involves many risks in them as well. There is a right to privacy for all the users involved in digital media. Digital mediainvolves concern for the users as personal information that are not permitted, gathered from the
IT PROFESSION AND ETHICS2on-line activities of users and from releases of information that are not permitted to any thirdparty user. Digital privacy includes the fact that uses digital mediums for conducting affairs to findout is the data is personal or is professional and leaves behind digital footprints. The users whouses internet does not understands the information that are dealing and the does not have theusage habits of internet are stored or logged in (Zhang et al., 2015). The internet protocol addressof the computer of a user can be traced easily to specific user all the websites viewing habits ofthe user can be tracked and monitored. The information that includes data as well as time of theresearch, what websites the users have accessed and the time he has taken to view the website arestored on the search engine of the server. The servers usually varies the length of time for whichthe information is stored before deleting them. Digital privacy includes to keep all suchinformation related to search of the user safely from other unauthorized user. Digital Privacy in AustraliaThe digital privacy in increasing at an alarming rate in Australia as reported by theAustralian Privacy advocate warn. The concern about data privacy comes in Australia with theGeneral Department of Attorney for accessing the personal telecommunication metadata of thepeople of Australia in civil proceeding (Bertino, 2015). The internet service provider of Australiastarted blocking of accessing the sites that generally hosts the illegal torrents and the streamingservice and blocking the regime proved fallible. This is a threat to the online pirates. The privacy in Australia reviews privacy issues that are generally associated with newregime is now needed so that the systematic storage of those massive amount that helps toidentify the information that leaves the exposed privacy of the individual (Spelman et al., 2015).
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