Surveillance and Ethics Assignment 2022

RUNNIING HEAD: SURVEILLNANCE AND ETHICS
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Working in an organisation or accessing any organisation as a customer always leave behind a
risk of the leakage of personal informations that the organisation is gathering. In most of the
cases, the organisations gathers informations about the personal informations like bank account
proofs, residential and proofs, contact details, email ids etc. though it may seem trivial at the
surface levels, people often faces risk and threats in such cases. The informations related to the
past job, the reason of conflict there, etc. all is the examples of Personal informations that needs
to e secured. In present days, various insurance and health organisations, financial companies
and government agencies have the power and legal support of getting hold of various private
informations of their employees as well as of the customers. As a precautionary measure, before
filling up such forms, I generally tend to review once the privacy policies of the company. Only
after being satisfied about the policies, I fill up the forms that require online details. While
communicating with any company online or browsing any stuff, I tend to turn on any kinds of
cookies setting and make use of the advertisement blockers.
2. It has been found out that the modern digital surveillance is actually outsourced to the private
companies. The private companies are thus responsible of acquiring as well as managing tthe
vast data sets and our daily lives are thus recorded for providing analytical software and services
on top of that data (Dwork McSherry Nissim and Smith 2016,). Thus most of the surveillance
we believe to be the government surveillance are actually performed by the private companies.
In this way, often we are exposed to risks of lesser cyber protections and the privacy safeguards.
While it may seem unethical and alarming for common publics like us, this is however don in
order to generate more accurate data and analytics. Moreover, these private companies are bound
by a variety of rules and regulations than the government agencies are. The analytic softwares
that are used by these agencies are built exclusively and have the potential of classifying data in