Digital Privacy

Digital Privacy

Introduction

Privacy is the biggest concern in all over the world related to Information Technology especially in United States of America. There is an increase in troubles of users with the advancement of much technology than earlier decades. Technology is getting advanced each day. Every day in our life brings new concepts of technology. There is no house and organization in our society, which is without computer. Information technology is playing tremendous role in valuing our lives and societies.

Discussion

Every organization is fully acknowledged with hackers and intruders. These hackers and intruders are present everywhere in our society. They may hack our systems through certain possible ways using negative aspects of information technology. They mostly target the high officials systems and websites. Research has shown that due to these hackers certain search engines and websites went offline for months. The hackers may send emails in which there are certain attachments and scripts. These scripts contain viruses which may prevail into the system. There are a number of Trojan horses and email borne viruses. The reason of risks is due to the fact, that users are connected through the vast network through the internet. Millions of users are connected through thousands of servers, and this may increase the risks of hacking and cracking.

There was an example of Amazon.com (when Amazon.com transferred its data into the cloud their servers had failed). They had raised questions regarding use of cloud computing. Clients of Amazon.com went offline for many days. The research showed that hackers wanted to deploy Amazon.com. There is no such security with the privacy issues. When there is transfer of some data it will also result in some loss of data.

When technology develops, and advances there are also problems associated with the advancement. There are many hackers and intruders around us. We ...