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The Pros And Cons Of A Citizen's Invasion Of Privacy

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After Snowden leaked mass surveillance and targeted surveillance programs that involved the NSA and the United Kingdom (U.K.’s) Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ); the political arenas, the media, U.S. and U.K. government officials reacted to the citizen’s invasion of private communications (Raab 2017). Many U.S. and U.K. citizens praised the information moving forward into the public arena, and for having a variety of questions for public and political debate. Then-U.K. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond impersonated the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of Parliament outlook in responding, the citizens of the U.S. and U.K. have demanded the protection from our government from those that wish to do us harm. The NSA and GCHQ must monitor all private communications to perform their job effectively, but we should not lose focus on the difference between the privacy we desire …show more content…

The Privacy Act (1974) establishes a relationship between privacy, freedom, and human dignity. “Respecting a person's privacy is to acknowledge such a person's right to freedom and to recognize that individual as an autonomous human being” (Britz 2010). However, a government has the absolute right to collect private and personal information from its citizens with the intent of securing order and peace in society. The use of technology has a major difference between privacy and confidentiality. Meaning, privacy varies from a private conversation to the location of private possessions; while, confidentiality varies between private medical records to trading secrets (Britz 2010). To better protect a person’s private information via the internet, a citizen can create strong passwords for documents, e-mails, banking statements, and classified

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The “Nothing-to-Hide Argument” Analyzed: In this rhetorical analysis, I will be taking a look at Daniel J. Solove’s essay “The Nothing-to-Hide Argument,” which is about privacy in the context of personal information and government data collection (Solove 734). Solove’s main argument in his essay is that the general public has a narrow perception of what privacy really is. The purpose behind his main argument is to expose the problems with the nothing-to-hide argument while presenting a way to challenge it for his target audience, government officials. Solove’s argument to his target audience is effective through his exemplary use of substance, organization, and style in his essay.

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In the article “Technology Is Invading Our Privacy” written by Julie Myhreis, a senior manager for the content in the Next Advisor, Inc., it is mentioned how important technology is in our lives and how so many people rely upon it on their everyday. Myhreis shares how storing personal information on your personal devices can put you at risk for hackers and identity thieves to gain access to your accounts and other information even after it has been deleted. It is also mentioned that cell phones, computers, and GPS devices are tracking their owner’s every day move. Also there are website created to tract a person’s online activity. Myhreis suggests that all passwords should be made difficult, so that hackers won’t be able to access them.

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The standards of what we want to keep private and what we want to make public are constantly evolving (Singer 426). Privacy is something we all as individuals love to have. When someone is invading our privacy, we feel angry and sometimes embarrassed. But how would you feel if you knew that the government is constantly invading our everyday privacy? In “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” written by Peter Singer he focuses on the concepts of the transparency and personal privacy.

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Nowadays, “privacy” is becoming a popular conversation topic. Many people believe that if they do not do anything wrong in the face of technology and security, then they have nothing to hide. Professor Daniel J. Solove of George Washington University Law School, an internationally known expert in privacy law, wrote the article Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education in May of 2011. Solove explains what privacy is and the value of privacy, and he insists that the ‘nothing to hide’ argument is wrong in this article. In the article, “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’”, Daniel J. Solove uses ethos, pathos, and logos effectively by using strong sources, using

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We know we have the right to bear arms, due process, freedom of religion, and many other rights, but we seem to be missing a right to privacy. The murky waters of privacy rights are always changing and that makes us vulnerable to the type of treatment that was rampant in 1984 . A significant theme in the book is the loss of human qualities.

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Advanced Technological Surveillance and Privacy Nowadays, the world is impossible to have a complete privacy since the changes of technological surveillance are used to invade people's privacy, people are not aware of being observed by the government or others. There are two articles that discusses the progresses and the use of technological surveillance. First, “Trading Liberty for Illusions,” (2002) by Wendy Kaminer who is a lawyer and who has written several books, including Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials.

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Throughout the course of history, human kind has always been driven to expand the borders of our knowledge and improve technology as it comes and goes. The 21st century has been filled with enormous leaps forward in many different fields of research, but with these advances there are also problems that have started to arise in regard to human rights and privacy. George Orwell’s 1984 has become extremely relevant, in the sense that the direction society has taken is eerily similar to that which is represented in the novel. Not only has the government changed hands and begun to show some behaviors that are similar to the representation of Big Brother in 1984, but the technology used within the book to keep tabs on the upper-class population is

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The recent growth in surveillance is not about the technology, but the physical surveillance tactics our government has adopted. Police departments have become involved in the argument of unethical government surveillance because they are overseen by the government and acts as a form of government surveillance. Police department and their tactics are a primary and most hands on form of surveillance used in the U.S. Today, stop and frisk is the face of police misconduct. This tactic requires officers to have reasonable suspicion to pat down a suspect's outer clothing, or stop and frisk without a warrant. The Newark Police Department (PD) of Newark, New Jersey has experienced several issues with their stop and frisk tactics over the years.

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This article serves as a warning to the public about the potential dangers of unchecked surveillance and the need for greater transparency and accountability in how governments collect and use personal

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With so much terror being spread in the world today governments are beginning to closely monitor the internet usage of their citizens. The major question is: are governments overstepping and breaching the privacy of their citizens? Obviously, the laws in each country are different but the definition to one’s base privacy, as described by Donald M. Gillmor, who alone has written many different law textbooks used in many different universities, and other very respected professors came together to write the Mass Communication Law: Cases and Comments defined privacy as "individuals are entitled to protect personal, intimate aspects of their lives from use or interference by others. " To give a valid argument it also needs to be stated how the government

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but they can not get into the lives of others like them can be for safety but should implement another types of methods. at some point I thought that what Snowden said was a lie that just saying it to look good to the world , but then I was reading and I realized it was all true Mr. Edward Snowden is a very good person who knows the damage the government the American states can lead to people if something should occur. due to the large number of people that the North American government disrespectfully without your permission obtained a metadata (a set of data That Gives INFORMATION ABOUT describe and other data) extensive and long. the Citizenfour movie is an excellent movie that helped us to clarify many doubts we had about WikiLeaks , without that film had not understood very bein the situation that is happening the creator made us a great favor when creating this film.

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Edward Snowden a former National Security Agency subcontractor, mentioned in one of his interviews with BBC News that United States go through US citizens recorded calls and social media accounts on their daily basis. (www.bbc.com) Based on Tech. Mic Edward Snowden was invited into “Ask Me Anything” session, and as Edward brought up that US government is violating citizen’s privacy issue; one of audience took government’s side and said “I don’t care because I have nothing to hide.” As Edward was explaining his point to the audience he said “Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

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Other people, enjoy the better security they receive in exchange for less privacy. Privacy is one of modern society’s great debates. Very few people even know how much privacy they do or do not have. The truth is that there is no privacy in today’s world because of technology and social media. The two articles chosen for this debate are Google knows too much about you and Why ‘Nothing to Hide’ misrepresents online privacy.

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Privacy is important because it keeps us safe. Today the technology that we use is not the same as it used to be. It’s no secret that technology is becoming more integrated into our professional lives. Since everyone are getting more comfortable with the internet, they are allowing it to also become more involved with our personal lives. The number of people who own phones, laptops, and tablets are rising every year.

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Technology is growing at a fast pace and every day we see a new product or service that is available. Many times it is hard to even keep up with the latest phone, computer, game console, or software. There are so many different gadgets to choose from and even the internet is on information overload. As a result, we can no longer truly expect to have privacy.

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