TOULMIN'S MODEL OF ARGUMENT

Business Information System - Toulmin's Model of Argument



Assignment - Part B

Critical Thinking Analysis Using Toulmin's Model of Argument

Claim

Sensitive FBI data is not secure from attack

Data

FBI has been working to protect the stake of U.S government and working to monitor and eliminate any threat and risk of any kind. FBI has very sensitive and private data of people, which includes name, address, device information, contact number, e-mails, travelling routine and schedules, family information, bank accounts, nationality, religion, gender, age, race, relations, contacts, and even credit card information (Gordon, et al., 2005).

After revealing the private data of millions of users from an FBI's agent's laptop it has been revealed that the private and sensitive data that FBI has is not secure from attacks. AntiSec group has publicized a database's link which contains information of more than one million unique IDs for devices of Apple that could consist of iPads and iPhones. According to AntiSec the data includes above 12 million unique IDs and private information of the owners of device that it retrieved from an FBI agent's laptop.

Warrant

Google has also been providing the user's data to FBI. Not only Google but many websites and organization provide users and/or consumers data to FBI. The data of millions of users that was publicized is a great example for justifying that sensitive FBI data is not secure from threats. If such a sensitive data cannot be secured by FBI then how the other data can be secured from several threats?

To its devices, Apple allocates a unique device identification numbers (UDIDs) which is a combination of letters and numbers. The number allows application developers and iTunes aware of which application is running on which device. For instance, the numbers let the developers of game keeping track of scores of users (FBI, ...