Privacy Ethics in Technology

During the Katz v. Unites States In 1967, the Supreme Court reversed Olmstead and ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies to a conversation and applies in public places in some situations. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 extended the 1967 wiretapping restrictions to electronic communications, including electronic mail and cordless and cellular telephones (Baase, 2018). In 1968, some technology I use today was invented but not necessarily established, including email, instant messaging, and cell/ car phones. Text messaging, video conferencing, video messages, and streaming were later established but fall within the parameters of the ECPA.

There have been many things that I have posted on the internet. From personal bits of information on Facebook to bad takes that may deem me ignorant on Twitter, I have deleted many posts from my social media accounts. I stopped using Facebook in 2014 due to privacy issues in how my data was being used. Now, I fully support the free market view, but it is too concise for today’s protection standards. Regulation should be developed under the consumer protection viewpoint. It is developed to protect consumers against abuses and carelessness by businesses because consumers do not realize or understand how their information is being used.

Being a part of social media and the growth of technology over the last 20 years, I have witnessed firsthand the mistakes made by people posting on FaceBook. For example, one has provided hackers with information to penetrate an account by referencing a post to what street they grew up on, mother’s maiden name, grade school, children’s middle name, or any other random fact. However, to my friends that only share photos for family, when sharing photos and using a hashtag such as #ClassOf2020, scammers can scan sites for the hashtag and possibly find the name of your high school and graduation year (Patel, 2020). This is only a small example of why legislation and security features for the average user need to continue developing.

References

Baase, S. & Henry, T.M. (2018). A Gift of Fire — Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing

Technology. Pearson.

Patel, D. (2020, May 19). The dangers of sharing personal information on social media.

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