Assignment:
Discussion 1
These concerns involve the misuse or, rather, the inappropriate usage of personal data without their knowledge. Additionally, there are concerns about government surveillance. The government tends to spy on its citizens without their knowledge (Conklin, 2009). The government uses the information of these individuals to understand more about their citizens, which amounts to the breaching of privacy rights. The privacy concern is the most relevant concern resulting from the use of the internet and technology. Technology enables companies to gather personal data from many different sources and analyzes them to create individual profiles. This information is accessible to cookies and used without the owner's consent. Therefore there is a need to enforce laws protecting people from violation of their privacy rights.
The state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Title VII, the ADA, and GINA cover all private employers, state and local governments, and education institutions that employ 15 or more individuals. These laws also cover private and public employment agencies, labor organizations, and joint labor-management committees controlling apprenticeship and training.
The current emerging technologies like artificial intelligence requires that the privacy rules should be modified. The advances in the technology will make it difficult for the old privacy norms to be effective and thus will require certain changes in it. Out of the many artificial intelligence is one of those. Since this is also a human developed system so, it can be breached easily and also a false program can be set by the developers. It saves the users personal and professional information which is also an issue and requires remedies to be developed. It needs to be kept safe with a high security system as this saves a large amount of personal information of the users which includes passwords, fingerprints, retina scan and many others in different-different ways (Holzinger, 2019).
Discussion 2
Number of privacy concerns will continue to rise in coming years due to two main factors, increase of smart devices and increase of people working remotely and every data is in digitalized format. Homes are being converted to smart homes, cars are connected via internet and energy sector is going through a major upgrade by deploying IoT devices. There will be more than 200 billion connected smart devices in coming years.
Together with high number of smart devices and pandemic has turned the cyber security landscape challenging. Wearable devices like iWatch, Fitbit, Google glass are constantly collecting all kinds of PII data, from financial information to health records, music habits are stored locally or to the cloud via internet connection. The worst part, majority of the users are unaware of that their PII data is being shared to third parties on internet. Google is one of the most widely used websites, but very few people are aware about google analytics.
Personnel data is stored on millions of devices, automated and collaborative approach is needed to deal with modern day PII issues. we need to study how traditional controls can be combined with modern technology to build the foundation of next generation of PII security controls.
Security controls that are the immediate need of the business should be prioritize and aligned with risk assessment policy. Security awareness training should be in high priority list. In future we will have more people working remotely, which will make us more vulnerable. To categorize the security controls, consider present and future use of devices. Laptops, desktops, servers, smart phones, wearables, and cloud computing are the dominant players that are targeted by phishing, ransomware, password dumpers, social engineering attacks.
As far as my concern and though there is not much of it, I can do anything about these are Spam Email and Text Messages. They show up as unwanted and unexpected text messages and Emails on our phone screens. That's aggravating enough, but it gets worse. Whoever is sending you a spam text message is likely trying to defraud you. Phishing emails and texts are a genuine security risk. It almost affects everyone's life as some time you will find your bank information is stolen or your email password is hacked.
Since I use Facebook and some other of the big five vendors. The privacy concern is First, they sell the data almost indiscriminately which exposes anyone to whoever buys that data. For both Facebook and Google, you can see those sales reflected in the advertisements you see. Secondly, regardless of your political beliefs, the big 5 are of a single political persuasion. I believe strongly that these companies should never engage in political activities. They can and will influence some voters with their views.
The US instead has vertically focused data federal privacy laws for finance (GLBA), healthcare (GLBA), children's data (COPPA), as well as a new wave of state privacy laws with California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) being the most significant.
Now a days People want stronger privacy laws because they want to have individualism and freedom to think or to do anything. And I think we need following changes in our privacy laws.
• Individuals have the right to ask how their data is used by the company after it has been gathered.
• If consumers are no longer customers, then they have the right to have their data deleted.
• Individuals have a right to transfer their data from one service provider to another.
• Individuals must be informed before data is gathered.
• It ensures that individuals can have their data updated if it is incorrect.
• Individuals can request that their data is not used for processing or for direct marketing.