Why Is Privacy an Issue?
Advances in technology are forcing people to think about how their personal data is used and shared. To give some examples:
- A chef enters her email address on a website to buy a new blender. She then begins to receive junk email from many different appliance companies.
- A school district fires an elementary school teacher after parents complain to the school principal about unprofessional pictures on the teacher’s personal web page.
- A professor gives students a homework assignment. The students must use the internet to collect as much publicly available data as possible about a particular government official.
- An organization tracks how many users visit its website each day. It records the number of times users click ...
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