Privacy and Surveillance

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The concept of privacy has changed since it was first articulated in law, at least in the United States, by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. This paper examines how that concept has changed since the birth of the information age, which spawned the technology to collect, store and manipulate amounts of data. Through a literature review, it discusses surveillance threats to privacy and how new legislation is needed to protect us.

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The Reality of Today's Privacy Environment
What Can Be Done About Protecting Privacy?

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"Perhaps the most important aspect of the surveillance threats to privacy are that we, those whose privacy is being invaded, trigger the process. As Nesson points out, the information the Internet picks up about us is information we put out there ourselves, when we view research, order shoes, email friends, pay our bills and so on. If we offer the information voluntarily, then is it tantamount to giving up our privacy rather than someone else taking it? Lester suggests that we do this because of "the tyranny of convenience" and, in fact, it is all but impossible to sign up for Internet service without providing debit or credit card information (2001, 27-29)."

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