Ensuring Your Privacy
Privacy. ... From AIDS tests to wiretaps, polygraph tests to computerized data bases, the common denominator has been whether the right to privacy outweighs other concerns of society. ... Robert Ellis Smith, the Privacy Journal Computers have been a very instrumental technology that has greatly advanced the ways in which we now do things such as; business, daily activities, shopping, scheduling appointments, and many other things. ... One very important trouble is the lack of privacy on the Internet. ... For many years, this has been happening, and it has always been a problem, but with more and more information being passed through, people want something to ensure their privacy. ... Although they have tried to place laws on the uses of some methods of privacy, they have not been as successful as they had hoped. Privacy is important to people, governments and businesses, and finding a method to protect their information is also a concern. Privacy has been defined as the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others (Summers, 22). With the advances in technology, it has become very hard to ensure your privacy. ... Computer companies have been trying to come up with ways in which a person can have some assemblage of privacy. Privacy is important to people. ... Privacy is about power. ... Privacy relates to Fiske’s theory quite explicitly. ... Everyday people do not have the power to ensure their privacy like the haves do. This is mainly because the imperializing powers try to prohibit the localizing powers from ensuring their privacy. ... One method computer companies have come up with to ensure people privacy is passwords. ... Deciding on a good and safe password is the meaningful to privacy. ... Another method of ensuring privacy that is becoming more common and efficient is cryptography. ... They have kept tight reins on the keys used to translate coded text into plaintext, prohibiting the export of secret codes under United States munitions laws and ensuring that the encryption scheme used by businesses was weak enough that the National Security Agency’s supercomputers could cut through it like butter (Elmer-Dewitt, 1). ... This simple method of cryptography is very efficient in securing peoples privacy. ... For this very reason, encryption is becoming known as a virtually foolproof method in ensuring privacy. ... This is the governments way of ensuring their right to control the amount of privacy people can have. ... Phil Zimmerman came up with the idea of PGP or Pretty Good Privacy. PGP is another method of computer privacy.