Leg 500 Assignment 2

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Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Interactive Activity: The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age Professor: Ilya Enkishev Student: Chen Zhao Date: 10/30/12 For this assignment, research a Website on the Internet that provides private information on U.S. citizens. Answer the following questions in the assignment: 1. Describe one technology that allows an individual to research citizens’ private data. The website that I searched is MyBuilding Community. It is a website that organizing people in a certain community or an apartment to be a social networking platform. On the platform people as well as the residents can register to be members of their communities or apartments by their apartment number and real name, and then people can get notice of their packages arrival in valet and the community news. Also people can post their photos, concerns and questions about everything and people who are members can make comments on others posts. As a result, people who are the members of the MyBuilding can get other’s personal privacy information by visiting others’ home pages and posts. Some people allow others to see their real name, cell phone number, date of birth and even apartment number so that their information is so easy to get. If people are not careful with the information they reveal on the Internet, it would be very dangerous for someone use their information for social, advertising, or even criminal purposes without people’s consent. Identity theft can occur when someone steals and uses personal information, such as people’s name or Social Security number, to commit fraud. 2. Determine what measures citizens can take to protect private information or information they do not want to be disclosed. First of all, when people join an online social network or community, people are often required

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