Essays on Privacy

When the founding fathers wrote the constitution and granted the people of the United States a list of unalienable rights, they forgot, or perhaps they deliberately excluded, one specific right: privacy. According to Milan Kundera, author of Testaments Betrayed, privacy is a basic human right...

Ever since social media was introduced as such a necessary and almost vital part of our lives, several concerns have risen about the boundaries at which we must draw in terms of our privacy. The mass of information users pour into this endless stream of...

Confidentiality is about preventing unauthorized persons from gaining access to unauthorized information. The ethical duty of confidentiality refers to the obligation of an individual or organization to safeguard entrusted information. It includes obligations to protect information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, loss or theft....

Introduction The divide between our online- and physical social lives is shrinking by the day, the impact of online communications on our social lives is more profound than ever. Today social media sites like Facebook influence a large portion of our social life and with...

The internet has become a useful and powerful tool for everyone. It allows people to communicate with each other anywhere in the world, however, there is a saying which says “all that glitters is not gold” unfortunately most people think the internet is a fairyland...

Over the summer, my grandmother purchased a wireless security camera for her backyard that is controlled by an application on her smartphone. As I assisted her in installing this camera, I began to wonder if she was the only person who was viewing the video...

A case study done by Mikles, Suh, Kientz & Turner in The use of model constructs to design collaborative health information technologies: A case study to support child development, talks about how health information technology could provide valuable support for inter-professional collaboration to address complex...

The current Health Information Privacy Code, Privacy Commissioner and Human Rights Review Tribunal are relevant. Powerful health laws and legal structures give the establishment to solid and versatile health frameworks. As health laws and legal systems can help with nations to achieve it’s essential health...

Privacy is an essential part of life. Whether we should forfeit it to create a perfect world or not is incredibly ridiculous. There are some things that other people just shouldn’t know, and the same goes for government. Although some people believe that we are...

Block-chain is a collection of decentralized functions and data management advancement grew first for Bit-coin crypto-currency. The enthusiasm for block-chain innovation has been growing since the idea was implemented in 2008. The purpose behind the growth for block-chain is its central elements that give security...

A city is described as being smart when it has high technological advancements. Such technological advancements include intelligent transport systems, smart energy grids, sensor networks, cloud computing, logistics management system with the desire to use digital technology to create a better life for citizens. Thite...

Social media is a daily part of most in today’s society, which has started a trend of constant oversharing of one’s emotions and lives. Although one may not see this as an issue, since it is one’s decision whether or not they share private aspects...

Susie Co-ed was ill prepared for her sociology exam. The teacher stepped out of the classroom for a moment during the exam and Susie decided to sneak a peek at what she believed was the key. When pressed by her peers to share her information,...

Introduction Client confidentiality is the practice where an institution or individual providing a beneficial service keeps the information, details and in some cases, the identity of their clients, private and exempt from release to any third party unless the client consents to it or a...

A uniformal aspect of psychology, among all practitioners, is the sacredness of patient confidentiality. However, just as no two psychological practitioners are alike, neither are protocols for confidentiality. Because of the flexibility of the confidentiality system, breaches are a common and problematic occurrence. The problems...

The privilege to security is a component of different lawful conventions to limit administrative and private activities that debilitate the protection of people. More than 150 national constitutions specify the privilege to privacy.Since the worldwide observation revelations of 2013, started by ex-NSA representative Edward Snowden,...

The regulation applies if the data controller (an organization that collects data from EU residents) or processor (an organization that processes data on behalf of data controller e.g. cloud service providers) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU. Furthermore the regulation also...

How would you feel if all of your private conversations could potentially be released all over social media and shared with millions? It is easy to say that we all think that not all of our conversations should be open to releasing for everyone to...

Confidentiality is the protection of personal information. that means keeping a client’s information between you and the client, and not telling others. Examples of maintaining confidentiality include: individual files are locked and secured support workers do not tell other people what is in a client’s...