Protection of privacy is an important issue and one that has often been passionately debated in political, social and business circles since privacy is no longer a free commodity. There was once a time when we could take privacy for granted but with advanced technology and better modes of commun...

As technology progresses and information is regarded as invaluable, an individual's right's and privacies are becoming jeopardized. Personal information is logged and charted via Email, Internet activity, business transactions, medical records in addition to a myriad of other databases t...

The technological advances of new communication and computer technologies has generated a host of ethical problems, the moral notion of privacy in the workplace has become a major concern. Some of these problems or concerns arise from software for computer monitoring. With technology advancing a...

Monitoring in the Workplace: The Right to Employee Privacy Fourteen million employees -- just over one-third of the online workforce in the United States -- have their Internet or e-mail use under continuous surveillance at work. Worldwide, the number of employees under such surveillance is at 2...

We live in a nation built on the idea of freedom, freedom of choice and freedom of expression, yet we are not free. Abortion is an ever-present choice that every woman should and does have, not based on ones financial situation, cultural background or even age; it's a choice that every...

Are we losing our freedom? The answer is yes, we are. Phone lines are tapped legally but without the owner's consent, e-mails and credit card numbers are read and stolen, and personal information are becoming not personal any longer. Parties, including the government, special interest groups...

Privacy Issues as Related to the Internet The Internet has become such a huge part of life for me and so many others. Along with all the benefits of using the internet; for example research, sending messages to other connected users, getting information, such as news, maps, airline schedules, and...

The democratic values involved here are, liberty in the fact that your privacy is stripped from you every time your baggage is x-rayed. Equality comes to mind when they do "random" searches, they have to use some kind of profiling to pick the people to search. Although these civil rights a...