These days one cannot be too careful in regards to personal identifiable information, also known as PII. To be able to understand the risk of PII, we need to be able to understand the rights and responsibilities of protecting personal information of ourselves and others and how to mitigate the risk of compromising this information. At the end of the day it all comes down to privacy, which is the freedom of intrusion of personal information.
In the early 1970s, the quantity of information collected by the United Sates government received an immense amount of public attention. By 1974 the Privacy Act was enacted. The establishment of the law helped restrict the release of PII and establish a code to regulate collection and use of information
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Information such as social security numbers, age, birth date, home address, bank account information, medical information are all just some basic overlying examples of PII. It is any type of information and/or data that can identify you as a person.
When it comes to the privacy of an individual, it is everyone’s responsibilities to protect this sensitive information. As stated above those are the most simplistic and overlying criteria for PII, but it goes far beyond the reach of just basic information about a person. How about the information collected on a person from an online business? This information might not be identifiable at the time it is collected but it very well may be later on when someone has some type of unauthorized access to it. The information about you and the things one may search on the Internet it worth real value to companies.
Have you ever noticed the little pop up ads on the sides of you search engines? Normal it is things of interest to you. This is what a big company calls “data mining.” According to Frand (2016), data mining is any facts, numbers, or text that can be processed by a computer. Today, organizations are accumulating vast and growing amounts of data in different formats and different databases. We can conclude that this can be an abundant amount of information collected on a single person online in the form of data (Frand
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The phishing tactic can be a direct result of a data breach. For example, the OPM data breach of 2015 affected around 21 million individuals, from that information fraudsters are able to try and phish for information previously saved and collect on a person from the federal government. Also, there was the data breach of Target in 2014 that compromised approximately 40 million debit cards and credit card information. This personal information stolen will be used in many fraudulent ways and leads people to think about how safe is our personal information and how can we protect
With the advent of new computer technologies, the ease with which new information can be discovered from aggregating data sources is astounding. This technique is called computer matching. When it comes to doing research this can be an incredible source of new ideas and correlations between sets of data. However, this same technique can be applied to information about individual people. Suddenly, by pulling together disparate sources of data, private information can be learned about an individual without their knowledge or consent. If the organization that is capable of computer matching is a government, it places a lot of information in the hands of a powerful entity. A question of whether the government should have this new information is a significant one.
Privacy does not have a single definition and it is a concept that is not easily defined. Information privacy is an individual's claim to control the terms under which personal information is acquired, disclosed, and used [9]. In the context of privacy, personal information includes any information relating to or traceable to an individual person [ 1]. Privacy can be defined as a fundamental human right; thus, privacy protection which involves the establishment of rules governing the collection and handling of personal data can be seen as a boundary line as how far society can intrude into a person's affairs.
Over the past decade the world has gotten much smaller due to the electronic communication the Internet has fostered. While this promotes business and international relations, problems arise regarding the protection of individuals’ personal information. Many countries around the world have developed privacy policies and laws protect an individual's information in the realm of electronic communication. Universal enforcement gets complicated because the Internet is not restricted to one country; it’s worldwide. As a result, concerns arise regarding the compatibility of various countries' privacy policies. This paper will discuss the current legislation in place for various major countries1, the existing conflicts between these countries’ policies and the implications these conflicts hold for the protection of privacy on the Internet.
Now with the introduction of the internet it is becoming increasingly difficult to control the publication of personal and private information. Any information that is collected should not be used for any other purpose except for what it was originally accepted.
All humans have some desire for privacy, but people have different boundaries to what information about them should be private. Problems arise with these widely varying definitions. What one person may define as a casual curiosity, another may define as a blatant invasion of privacy. Often, these disagreements find themselves in court rooms, and have been subjects of some of the most controversial court cases ever.
Personal data is quickly becoming a commodity in today's high technology world. This information is used by banks, investment and brokerage companies, credit card merchants, government agencies (local, state and federal), and consumer product-based companies. Most people probably don't realize the amount of information that's shared between companies, or how often it's done. Many companies sell and share customer data to help sell products and find out what new products they should produce. Other uses include gathering information about inventory levels to help better determine what types of products are bought at which store, when and how often. This can be used for inventory and production, to make sure that the store (or stores for chains, like Safeway and Long's Drugs) can have the products available when they're needed.
The computer is considered one of the most important technological advances of the twentieth century. Security and privacy issues have been in existence long before the computer became a vital component of organizations' operations. Nevertheless, the operating features of a computer make it a double-edged sword. Computer technologies with reliable error detection and recording capabilities, permit the invasion of a supposedly secure environment to occur on a grand scale and go undetected. Furthermore, computer and communications technology permit the invasion of a persons' privacy and likewise go undetected. Two forces threaten privacy: one, the growth of information technology with its enhanced capacity for surveillance, communication, computation, storage and retrieval and two, the more insidious threat, the increased value of information in decision making. Information has become more vital in the competitive environment, thus, decision makers covet it even if it viol!
The finding of this report are based on four different factors for different factor for analysis of personal data protection and personal data privacy. The first is current regulations, which ……
There are various kinds of definitions about what data mining is. The authors in [1] define data mining as “the process of extracting previously unknown information from (usually large quantities of) data, which can, in the right context, lead to knowledge”. Data mining is widely used in areas such as business analysis, bioinformatics analysis, medical analysis, etc. Data mining techniques bring us a lot of benefits. Business companies can use data mining tools to search potential customers and increase their profits; medical diagnosis can use data mining to predict potential disease. Although the term “data mining” itself is neutral and has no ethical implications, it is often related to the analysis of information associated with individuals. “The ethical dilemmas arise when data mining is executed over the data of an individual” [2]. For example, using a user’s data to do data mining and classifying the user into some group may result in a variety of ethical issues. In this paper, we deal with two kinds of ethical issues caused by data mining techniques: informational privacy issues in web-data mining and database security issues in data mining. We also look at these ethical issues in a societal level and a global level.
The Oxford pocket dictionary defines phishing as the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company. This is what phishing is known for now in today’s internet driven world but it was not always the case. Phishing actually predates computers. Some people did it over the phone for years and they called it social engineering.
In this new era of the Internet, most people use the Internet to acquire information of one kind or other. But what these people are not aware of is that the Internet is collecting information about them. Every time we get onto the Internet there might be a compromise of privacy of our personal information. The information flows both ways. With every clock of the mouse on a hyperlink, or an addition to the mailing list, someone out there might be gathering information about us. This raises the seriousness of privacy of our information on the Internet.
Computers can also tie information together in an impersonal and systematic way that can lead to invasions of privacy. Take for example the situation wh...
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Information privacy, or data privacy is the relationship between distribution of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them.
As you people know that technology is life but can be dangerous to what we put on there, such as; inappropriate pictures, dirty messages, rumors about people that can cause fighting, and many more things. Sometimes people get hacked and they have no idea who hacked them so now people got to be careful what they do on their technologies. The good things maybe that you doing homework so u need a computer, need to fill a application, and just researching things. People can protect their personal privacy by not using it in a daily basis, don't put your information on social media. Also, don't keep your important information on your cellular device.