IT Profession and Ethics
NIT2201
IT Profession and Ethics
ASSIGNMENT
1: The Future of Privacy: digital life in 2025
According
to the Australian Information Commissioner - “Privacy is important. It is about
protecting our information on who we are, what we do, what we think and what we
believe”. We live in a digital age and are very much attached to a technology
on everything that we do. Our personal privacy is being threatened by a modern
technology in a way how we use the technology in our daily life. The Internet
companies such as Google and Facebook are collecting our data and creating new
services for different advertising companies.
On
December 18, 2014, Pew research report “The Future of Privacy: digital life in
2025” (available at http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2014/12/PI_FutureofPrivacy_1218141.pdf) indicated that there will be no privacy in the future
and the IoT (Internet of Things) is the worst part of the problem.
Bojanova,
Hurlburt & Voas (2014) said, “Today, the Internet of Things. Tomorrow, the
Internet of Everything. Beyond that, perhaps, the Internet of Anything—a radically
superconnected ecosystem where questions about security, trust, and control
assume entirely new dimensions.” http://paris.utdallas.edu/sere14/docs/SERE-2014-Voas-paper.pdf
Commence
your research for your essay by reading chapters from the text book Quinn
(Chapter 5: Information Privacy & Chapter 6: Privacy and the
Government) & Reynolds (Chapter
4: Privacy). In completing this assignment, you are encouraged to discuss the topic with your classmates
however you will submit an individual essay. Plagiarism is unacceptable and not tolerated by the University. Any
person found plagiarising will face disciplinary action. Specific details are
available in the policy on Academic Honesty and Preventing Plagiarism.
Your
writing needs to be supported by references. You will need to conduct further
research online and, in the library, to answer the following questions in your
essay. The references need to come from legitimate sources. Each reference
needs to be given with an in-text reference and listed at the end of your essay
(not part of your word count). A well supported essay will include at least 10
references. You must use APA referencing style correctly and consistently. Your
discussion essay will research and address the following questions supported by
references and your opinion:
• What
is privacy?
• What
is digital privacy?
• Discuss
on different privacy threats.
• Why
is the IoT the worst enemy of privacy? Discuss
• What will digital life look like in 2025
in terms of privacy? The future of achieving privacy, security and
accountability.
• Discuss
on privacy solutions and best practices for the Internet of Things.
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