Modern Technology Essay

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Modern Technology Invading Privacy Privacy advocates resists this framing but seems to be unable to either displace it or to articulate a comparably urgent description of privacy’s importance. With information being acquired and with the eases of storing it easier there has been cases where data has been taken from an individual without their consent. The convenience of using the Internet has seemingly made the majority of lives easier, but at a major cost the loss of personal information. However, with new technologies being introduced to us, often make us wonder what level of protection for our right to privacy is possible in our world where personal information about us can easily be accessed without the need to infringe into our physical space, but by invisible hands that can get to know our most private secrets with a keystroke and looking at a screen. As technology becomes increasingly able to facilitate breaches in our privacy, it becomes most important to establish protections. Privacy’s legal history indicates that developments in technology inspire changing views of the content of the concept of privacy and of what is to be protected. Products from recent information technologies have emerged from the “generalization of digitalization which brings about the possibilities to build a strong technical system, opening of new consumers that increases quantitative and qualitative possibilities and capacities of transmitting and spreading information, and the miniaturization which improves the performance of the information systems.” (Scardigli 1982). Science and technological developments are also the main motor behind the constitution of the very sphere of privacy they are accused of threatening. Technology has ambiguous effects that because of the privatized distribution of privacy invasion there are non-existent values. The more personal public social

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