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Collecting Consumer’s Personal Data
Ever since the internet boom, personal privacy has become a growing concern. Today there are over 115 million web servers on the net; as a result, personal privacy is a much larger issue for a greater part of the population. There is ongoing debate on what the government’s role should be when it comes to protecting individual’s privacy. ... Likewise, it has not yet been determined, as to what is an invasion of privacy. Naturally the organizations collecting personal information feel that they are not invading anyone’s privacy, while victims will claim the opposite. ...
An article in Readers Digest called Privacy is Overrated by David Plotz, explores the useful side of privacy and disagrees with the idea that people are not safe because of simple data mining. ... ” (Plotz, 2003) If the federal government decides to use data mining on its citizens, many will declare that they are invading our privacy when it is merely designed to protect. ...
When criminals begin to steal other individual’s personal information and use it for their own personal gain is when the issue of online privacy becomes a heated topic. ... ” An article titled Internet Privacy from MSNBC, explains other events that have taken place due to the internet. ... These crimes that are a result of the available information are responsible for creating all of the excitement related to privacy. ... Reader’s Digest:
Privacy Is Overrated. ... org
Online privacy Under attack. ... com
Online privacy fears are real.
Approximate Word count = 1840
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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