The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age

The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age

Introduction

The digital privacy is the ability of a person to control the exposure and availability of information is it, an acquaintance or even a stranger on the Internet, through the sharing sites and social networks. The current Internet architecture allows the development of new technologies of information control, changing the way of how each person see the privacy policy. The revolution in information technology has changed the social reality, penetrating all spheres of human activity generating new relationships to be governed by the legal system. The lack of consolidated laws regarding digital privacy requires that each individual be prepared to deal with new situations and invasion of privacy resulting from this new view of the privacy occasioned by the emergence of new technologies informational.

Discussion

The emergence of social networks and sites sharing increased the risk of an individual to have privacy violated in today's society, especially the direct and indirect disclosure of personal data. From these social networking and sharing sites, companies seeking information about their users and offer products and services in accordance with preferences deduced from information gathered. The meaning of the term privacy is very subjective because there are completely different meanings between two people even if they are the same ethnic group cultural. One of the definitions is that privacy is the ability of a person to control the exposure and availability of information about you and relates to the ability to exist in society can anonymously using a pseudonym or a false identity. So privacy is to have control over the existing information about you and exercise this control consistent with their interests and personal values (Waldo et al., 2007).

Digital privacy is conceptualized as specific way of personal experience, alone, in a sphere reserved, depending spontaneous choice of the person concerned, a primary within the family group effective, or more insulation, but always without a notorious form of participation by others, either by guard against interference or harassment others, whether by use of the option that it is given to reasonable exclusion of public knowledge, data, actions, ideas and emotions that are peculiar. Digital privacy can be characterized as a right that you have to want that your personal information is kept securely, without it being possible to identify them while browsing the web, the user has the right ...