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Surveillance of the networked society: Is your data really private?

Hypothesis 3
Background 3
Who has access to the data 3
How is the data obtained 5
Privacy Policy? Is it really private? 8
Advantages 9
Marketing/Retailing 9
Banking/Crediting 9
Law enforcement 9
Researchers 9
Disadvantages 10
Privacy Issues 10
Security issues 10
Misuse of information/inaccurate information 10
Impacts on Business/Markets 10
Conclusion 10
References 12


Hypothesis

With mobile social networking on the rise, the trend of new and innovative cell phones has been on the horizon for a while now, but none have considered the fact you’re cell phone may be spying on you. With the amount of bells and whistles constantly growing in order to top the last, are the new features really your friend? One thing for sure is if the companies start data mining the information received back from the service providers, can be used to find out routines of peoples daily activities. Essentially, it’s another step towards creating a surveillance of the networked society.

Background

As seen with calls monitoring done by the government, having the intelligence community monitoring phone calls is very disturbing and a direct violation of the constitution. What is even more shocking is who is doing the monitoring. It's not just the NSA, NRO, DIA etc... Look who is working for these government agencies. There has been a lot of outsourcing of intelligence jobs. For example, looking at the web page for SAIC the job posting require SAP clearance and are contracted to the NSA, DIA, etc.. Overall, it comes down to the fact the “our” government has outsourced Intel gathering to corporate America. Also they say their only looking at call patterns. Finally, with the high level use of the statistical analysis and parts of conversations, they call tell more than just the call patterns. The fundamental principle of the networked society is information sharing and processing (Kling and...