...M5 Original Assignment Topic Is drug testing an unwarranted invasion of employee privacy? Which is more important getting drugs out of the workplace or protecting the privacy of the employee? No, I don’t think that drug testing is an invasion of the employee’s privacy. The Employer informs the potential employees if a drug test is required before hiring them, and also if they can do it at any time during their employment period. The applicant has the option not to take the job if they feel their privacy is being invaded. An employer needs to know that they have responsible employees working for them since they are the ones doing the job. When someone is on drugs even if it’s not during work hours it can affect their production, or them being on time and many other reasons. The employee is trying to protect themselves, and if it’s illegal they shouldn’t be doing it anyways. I think that getting the drugs out of the workplace is more important than protecting the privacy of the employee from drug testing. The employee is informed about the drug tests and they have the option to deny it as well. It is more important to have a safe working environment with responsible people who will perform their jobs on a daily basis. What about other health-threatening activities, i.e. smoking outside of working hours, unprotected sex, etc. Should employers be able to question or test employees or potential employees about these activities? I don’t think that if the employee smokes or has unprotected...
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...Is using social media for marketing a form of infringement of personal privacy? We are now in the 21st century and social media has become a very big hit. So the topic here is, is it an invasion of personal privacy when marketers use social media in marketing? First let me explain what personal privacy is. It is personal freedom from unwanted disturbance in someone’s private life meaning that we have the freedom to be not constantly disturbed. However, the internet is a public library, when you add something on the internet it is already public even if it wasn’t meant to be, and to be honest there are many people out there who just like to cause disturbance, but you have the choice to post it privately or publicly. It is not eavesdropping if you posted something publicly and a stranger saw it. There are also possibilities that the marketers collect personal data like workplace or home address so that he can personally meet face to face with the customer or consumer to conduct his survey. If the marketer constantly visits your workplace or home it is an invasion of privacy, but I find this very rare because it doesn’t benefit him, in fact it is a waste of time for him if he keeps getting rejected, in anyways so it is not practical. The reasons why marketers have started using social media for marketing is because the users are massive, like Facebook it has more than 1 billion users. Because of this massive amount of users’ marketers will use this advantage to gain knowledge...
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...Question A What are privacy policies and what are privacy protection features? “A statement that declares a firm’s or website’s policy on collecting and releasing information about a visitor. It usually declares what specific information is collected and whether it is kept confidential or shared with or sold to other firms, researchers or sellers”. (Business directory, 23rd of May) Electronic commerce websites must ensure that they have a strict set of privacy protection policies implemented to maintain consumer trust. For example, one of the most important features of privacy protection is giving the consumer the choice of whether their information can be collected by the e-commerce website. In addition to this, if information is collected by the website they have ensure that it’s protected and that all usage of that information has to be communicated to the...
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...Privacy in the 21st Century Eng 122 Mrs. Samaniego 10 June, 2013 In today’s society cameras are watching every step you take and every move you make. How do you feel about that? Someone is watching you, whether it is the surveillance cameras at a gas station or it’s the security guard in a shopping mall. Does this make you feel uncomfortable? You post something on Facebook and decide to delete it 5 minutes later, but did you know that it will always be on the internet although you deleted it? You may not see it but others will. In today’s society, personal privacy rarely exists. There are certain devices and tools that people use when trying to invade someone’s privacy including hidden cameras and satellites. Privacy no longer exists due to all of the new technologies and programs enabling the invasion of someone’s privacy. What is privacy? Do people today really understand what privacy is? Have they had the opportunity to experience privacy? The definition of privacy is “allowing an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal them selectively.” When something is private it is usually something personal or valuable to someone. Everyone likes privacy but...
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...the main part of most peoples lives. Social networks such as “Facebook” and “Twitter” help maintain your identity across many different devices. Facebook has been around the web for a while now but on June 28 Google’s senior vice president of engineering, Vic Cundotra, introduced the company’s latest social network project called Google Plus. The revealing of Google+ has been called a direct challenge to Facebook and with the more controlled privacy settings and enchanting features it much actually succeed in becoming the most popular social network site on the web. Google+ Versus Facebook Features The main concern between these two social networks is privacy. Facebook’s privacy settings have been criticized as confusing and hard to manipulate. In order to compete with Facebook “Google has to make the permission and privacy settings more tractable and easier to manipulate” (Beer) Says Senior Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff. Google is definitely succeeding in making this possible with its shorter privacy settings at only 1,000 words compared to Facebook’s 6,000 and with easier wording and terms the average person is able to understand it without having to be a computer genius. Another advantage of Google+ is that it does not take “your interests” from your profile and create ads all over the page. Sources say that eventually there will be ads but as of now there are none. Facebook does take your interests from your profile and create ads that are...
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...Many Employers are looking at the Facebook, MySpace, and blogs and other social networking sites for prospective of employees, even internship applicants are being asked to turn over their user names and passwords for social networking and email websites to gain access to personal information like private photos, email messages, and biographical data that is otherwise deemed private. Is this legal? Ethical? There isn’t a lot of case law yet regarding social media. Many situations simply have not been tested in court, so there are very little in the way of guidance at present. But we do know a few things. Can an employer legally decide not to hire you based on a review of the contents your Facebook or social networking websites? The truth is, yes they can, as long as employers do not violate the federal or state discrimination laws in using social networking sites in making hiring decisions. For example, an employer cannot legally screen out applicants based on race or ethnicity. This brings up the controversy questions, is it an invasion of privacy for an employer to gain access to your profile or photos? What is posted on the Internet has a lower “expectation of privacy” than, say, a private home telephone conversation. Once it is posted on Facebook or MySpace or your blog, the information is available to the public. Therefore, viewing it does not constitute an invasion of privacy. Facebook is designed to limit the availability of your profile to your friends and only those...
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...even didn't think about it. 3. How many hours in a day you are actively online? From 07.00 am to 11.00 pm, around 16 hours. 4. Are you a member of facebook, twitter, and/or instagram? What other social network sites do you use? How many interactions/entries do you make in a day to social media platforms? I'm the member of Facebook and Linkedin. I make one or two interactions or entries in a day. Do you believe that in your professional life, your privacy is invaded by the company you work for? Please explain why. As far as I know, the main privacy invasion ways that the employers uses are as follows ; * Email monitoring, * Web site monitoring, * Recording the keystrokes on the computer, * Video recording, * Monitoring the company vehicles with GPS, * Recording the conversations I know that, my company is only monitoring the emails and the web sites entered in working hours if we use the devices, email account and the internet connection of the company. This is not disturbing me because while being hired, every employee are informed that company email accounts, internet connection and the devices are only for use for work related issues and these are being monitored by the company. So I don't beleive in that I'm invaded by my company. Do you feel that your privacy as a consumer is invaded by the companies you make use of / buy from? Please explain why....
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...Are famous people treated unfairly by the media? Should they be given more privacy, or is the price of their fame an invasion into their private lives? The question of unfair treatment of famous people by the media is one that cannot be easily answered without a close examination of all that is involved. Fame is a state of being well known either by one’s personality or a result of one’s accomplishments and cannot happen without the media. The media makes people famous. The world is now in an information age that is totally driven by the media. You view events happening around the world via satellite TV in the comfort of your living room; you get the latest gist and gossip on smart phones connected to the ubiquitous internet that is proliferated with social media like Facebook and Twitter; propagation of gossips has not been easier! Success, being synonymous with fame is something people naturally love to identify with. The most intricate affairs of successful people thus become goldmine of information for people who have made them role models. They believe they can also achieve success by patterning their lives after their models. Likewise, famous entertainers like the late Michael Jackson also are idolized especially by young people. The ‘wannabes’ of these entertainers will do whatever it takes to get information about what things make their favourite acts tick. On the other hand, the unhealthy secrets of the private lives of famous people make good sources of scandal...
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...In this day and age it has become apparent that people enjoy having constant communication. They enjoy letting others know what they are doing, who they’re seeing, what they’re eating – in essence, the idea of privacy is non-existent. During the last decade we have seen men and women willingly go on television to disclose personal information, be followed by cameras and have every inch of their lives exposed to millions of viewers. Reality television has alienated the way we protect our privacy and in changed the way we view normal. Reality television has only created problems and television companies should abolish any current reality television being produced so personal privacy can finally be restored. The importance of privacy must be realized and must be appreciated because once we lose our privacy, it’s never coming back. Reality television is a hard concept to define; each show that’s created has its own agenda and its own motivation for being created. The only commonality between every show is that people choose to go on television and have their lives taped. Every aspect of their lives can and will be aired on television and subsequently every drama or problem they have during or after the show will be aired on gossip websites or in magazines for the world to see. Once these cameras are turned on they are never turned off. The very definition of normal needs to be reworded because the sort of families that are seen on television as “normal” are very far from what...
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...Privacy in the 21st Century Sandra Bland ENG 122 Jason Romero March 25, 2013 How do you feel walking around knowing that you are being monitored at all times by cameras? Somebody is watching every step you take. Doesn’t that creep you out a little? You post something on Facebook and decide to delete it later on; did you know it will always be there no matter how many times you have deleted it. You may not see it, but others can. In today’s society, privacy rarely exists anymore. There are certain tools and gadgets people use when trying to invade somebody’s privacy including hidden cameras and satellites. Privacy no longer exists in my eyes because of all the new technologies and programs allowing the invasion. What is privacy? Do people today really understand what privacy is? Or have they really got to experience some privacy? The definition of privacy is allowing and individual or group to “seclude them or information about themselves and thereby reveal them selectively.” When something is private, it is usually something personal or valuable to someone. Everyone likes privacy, but it is no longer “available.” Everything people hope is private is no longer private. An example is, before data bases were even created a patient’s information was recorded and put into files in a filing cabinet. There were no security precautions preventing another doctor from exploring somebody’s files. A doctor could do anything with the files without anybody knowing because there is...
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...channels. Facebook, Twitter, e-mail accounts, text messages through e-mails, etc are all part of a society that is in constant stay of electronic association. Now, how does our privacy has gotten affected by all these technological developments, what precedents had been establish when it comes to the use of technology in the workplace and privacy? Are we liable for the use of personal e-mails in the workplace? Should e-mail be considered analogous to mail and telephone conversations? Many more questions come up when technology and privacy in the workplace are at the center of the debate and some of them will be address in this paper. Intrusion by Seclusion means that the right to privacy is invaded by the unreasonable intrusion upon the seclusion of another. This is based on the Restatement, Second of Torts 652A. According to Rich (1995): “One must ask whether the law protecting the right to privacy has evolved with the new technologies to ensure the vitality of the Fourth Amendment.” It is important to notice that the Supreme Court has defined privacy as the right of the individual to control the dissemination of information about oneself (Rich, 1995, p. 1). Rich (1995) continues to explain: Privacy as guaranteed by the U.S. Cosntitution differs in two significant ways from privacy protected by tort law: (1) the types of acts constituting an invasion of privacy are very different, and (2) the type of protection provided to individuals – constitutional privacy protects against...
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...divulge about one's self to others? Under what conditions? What information should one be able to keep strictly to one's self? When can details of one’s life be exposed to the world without saying that privacy is not a factor? These are a few among the questions that a concern for privacy raises. Today every person around the world are asking these issues. Privacy is something that is walking a fine line between existing and not existing because with technology continuously developing and growing this thing called privacy is slipping further and further away. A case in point is the situation that occurred a few years ago in Florida. The Florida legislature believed that the state's building codes might be too stringent and that, as a result, the taxpayers were burdened by paying for buildings which were underutilized. Several studies were commissioned. In one study at the Tallahassee Community College, monitors were stationed at least one day a week in every bathroom. Every 15 seconds, the monitor observed the usage of the toilets, mirrors, sinks and other facilities and recorded them on a form. This data was subsequently entered into a database for further analyses. Of course the students, faculty and staff complained bitterly, feeling that this was an invasion of their privacy and a violation of their rights. State officials responded, however that the study would provide valuable information for policy making. In effect, the State argues that the value of the information to...
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...Running head: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY 1 Technology and Privacy Shawna Greiner SOC 120 Jenna Soard April 22, 2012 Technology 2 There was not such a thing known of as technology back in the beginning of time, but now technology has become the biggest thing used; it is so powerful throughout the world, that it is the number one thing used for just about everything in our everyday life. People have to have technology at a majority of their jobs in order to complete their tasks, Hospitals have to have it in order to take care of people and most of all keep track of files and records of people, government offices are the biggest one to have the technology that keeps all or a majority of information about every single human being that has lived. Another big technology that is done, but has been taken out of proportion is the internet and privacy. People that want to steal, take advantage of another person’s personal information, whether their social security number, physical address, work and income information along with credit, and bank accounts, then it is used to the person stealing it for their own advantage which later destroys the victim a lot of times. Technology has advanced to our own freedom...
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...the way people interact, communicate, conduct business, seek jobs, find partners, and shop (Clark & Roberts, 2010). While many of use are using Social Networking Sites (SNS) such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and Bebo to stay connected with friends, employers are using these same SNSs as a source to gain background information on job applicants as well as cuurent employees. Most employers do not have policies in place to govern when and how to ensure the information obtained is accurate. As a result of this, two negative consequences can arise when employers view information online that they view as i nappropriate or unacceptable. Either employers will choose not to hire the job applicant or the current employee can be terminated.This article suggests that even though employers may have a legal right to use SNSs in this way, it is wrong for employers to do this unless the information obtained in this manner is essential to the job. The Social Responsibility Theory directs employers to conduct online background checks only when there is a business necessity due to the negative impact such impacts have on society. We have a legal, natural, and fundamental right to privacy which is defined as "freedom from unauthorized intrusion". I strongly feel as if my right to privacy is violated if my supervisor uses any information from my personal SNS against me. What I do and who I do it with in my spare time is my business and employers need to stay in their...
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...Are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram worth it to get? | EN1420 Composition II | Are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram worth it to get? Most people, seeing that millions actively use them, would say yes. I on the other hand, say no! I used to take part with each of these social media sites and as a user did not find them useful and actually found them to hinder my life. Many issues happen with work and home life; not to mention so many people are “addicted” and say too much or look at them way too often. Since the rise of social media sites in 2004 when Facebook went public to all, the American culture has become a very open, nosy, tell all population. Throughout my research I focused on the user perspectives and the negative sides of the sites; along with the Terms and conditions or behind the scenes aspects of the three sites. Focusing on just the user point of view at this point most people that use Facebook to begin with have features of their locations or tell the world of Facebook their day to day story including where they are going and what they are doing. This allows for people to stalk each other and know people’s daily routines giving the bad people of the world easy access to do what they would like. From personal experience Facebook can cause issues at work and within a household or relationship. You can send and receive messages and hide many wrong doings on Facebook. People can have secret relationships through Facebook with messaging or the IM feature...
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