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Introduction To Personal Privacy

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Name: Mollie-Kate Farrelly ID Number: 14504747
Course Name & Number: Introduction to PracticalEthics PI 108 Lecturer: Gerald Cipriani
Submission Date: 28th July 2015
Word Count: 1,976
Essay Title: (Topic 3) What levels of personal privacy should individuals have on the internet and why? In your answer, discuss Mill’s views on governmental control.

Personal privacy refers to the information that we selectively give out about ourselves. When we give out personal information we do so willingly and do not expect it to be passed on to other sources without our consent.
Internet privacy involves the right of having personal privacy regarding the storing, repurposing, provision …show more content…

The same principle can be applied to how we should expect freedom from interference online, on the basis that ones private actions do not harm others.
The right to privacy is the right to make our own decisions, to control property against search and seizure, and to control who gets access to information about oneself. We are free to act as we choose only if our choices do no harm to others. Interference can only be imposed and justified when it is necessary to prevent actual harm to others.
Mills believed a genuinely civil society must always guarentee the civil liberty of its citizens. A society has clear responsibility for protecting its citizens from each other and has no business interfering with the rest of what they do. Basically anything that directly affects only the individual citizen must remain absoloutley free. Mill’s view entails that the governement is never justified in trying to control, limit, or restrain: private thoughts and feelings, along with their public expression, individual tastesand pursuits as efforts to live harmoniously/happy, and the association of like minded individuals with each …show more content…

However, it is hard to say if we ever will achieve true privacy and anonymity online. As technology improves, tracking is getting more pervasive and sophisticated. The technology to track your movement across the web without even needing cookies exists today. ‘Canvas fingerprinting’ is a one of a number of cookie-less browser techniques that allows sites to identify and track visitors, without breaking the law. It has become inescapable, and instead we should be focusing on internet transparency.
Governments should focus on full transparency about tracking rather than trying to regulate it in which most cases can be bypassed. Transparency would serve as a self-correcting tool, which enables people to be aware of sites whos practices we arent comfortable with.
When I visit a site I want to know, and have the right to know, who is tracking me, what are they doing with the collected data, who they share it with, and what those others do with

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