Security and Privacy Reflection

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SECURITY AND PRIVACY REFLECTION
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Table of Contents
1. Smart Sensors.........................................................................................................................2
2. Wi-Fi Hotspot.........................................................................................................................4
3. Digital identity.......................................................................................................................7
4. Security & Privacy Control....................................................................................................9
5. References............................................................................................................................11

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1. Smart Sensors
Smart in the 21st century has emerged as one of the most used words. The reason for
such attention lays base on the development of smart technologies and how they can
influence an individual, community, state or even a whole nation. Singapore is one of such
country which has devised and implemented a strategy to make the country a smart one.
Inspired by the changes in Singapore, Australia has also planned to implement a similar plan
to enhance the smartness of Australia. As part of the process, the country is planning to
induce smart sensing networks at the bus stops, traffic lights, rubbish bins and other public
places to monitor the behaviour of the citizens while addressing the street crimes. However, it
might have some consequences that are relevant to the privacy of the citizens which might
cite personal and ethical implications and hence, they have been discussed as follows:
a) The discussed proposal will have a country wide effect on the population as the
proposal is planned to be implemented throughout the country and will monitor the
activities of the each and every citizen. However, there are some specific categories of
group that will be impacted by it the most. The people who are highly confidential
about their personal life or are introvert or are suffering from SID (Social Identities’
Disorder) and similar others will find it difficult to cope up with staying in the
attention or surveillance (McCormack & EII, 2017). The above statement can be
justified by the fact that several researches have proved that mass surveillance is
capable of supressing the feeling and speech of an individual. The types of people
discussed above are the ones who supress their feeling and the deemed proposal will
further influence them to suppress their personality which is undesirable and will
impact their personality greatly. Additionally, some researches also cites that the
people who are artistic in nature also starts restricting themselves from penning down
their opinion because of the fear of gaining high attention from the surveillance

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authorities. The social activists would also start taking extra precaution because of the
monitoring of the citizens which will offer the people in power to use their power to
fulfil their personal agendas and objectives which might increase the corruption and
power misuse (Abich IV, Reinerman-Jones, & Matthews, 2017). The increased
corruption, misuse of power and directly or indirectly suppressing of the people’s
opinion can be considered as unethical when considered in context of the democratic
nations. Other categories of people may also get affected such as the politicians who
are not in the government or those who fight against corruptions which would be
unethical in terms of the country.
b) The behavioural changes that may be identified in the citizens is the oppressing of the
feelings & speech, people restricting themselves from savouring, standing against the
unethical acts of the powerful bodies and others (Wang, Zhou & Zheng, 2017). The
youth are one of the people who savour their moments at any place and moment,
however, post implementation of the proposal they will restrict themselves from
savouring their moments which will have a great impact on their behaviour and
ultimately the development of their personality. The country will also miss on some
great artistic work as the creative people would start oppressing their true emotions
leading them to offer creative works which will be reflected on their work. The fear of
getting unwanted attention will also restrict the people to protest against the unethical
acts conducted by those in power (Wang, Zhou & Zhang, 2017). Hence, it would be
justified to state that the monitoring of the citizens would greatly influence the
behaviour of the citizens. The discussed proposal might introduce discipline and
mitigate criminal activities but will adversely impact the perks offered by a
democratic nation.