Privacy Issues in Technology:Is Access to Technology Worth the Potential Loss of Privacy?

Privacy Issues In Technology: Is Access To Technology Worth The Potential Loss Of Privacy?
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Privacy Issues In Technology: Is Access To Technology Worth The Potential Loss Of Privacy?
Abstract
Humans place a high value on individual privacy and the security of their private data. On the other hand, recent improvements in digitalization represent significant risks to data protection, if not strictly regulated, may have undesirable consequences such as data inequities. In essence, it is illogical that give up access to emerging technologies only for the sake of privacy since digitization that jeopardizes privacy may also assist in mitigating unfavorable effects. Advances in ICT are jeopardizing personal privacy. Unrestricted sharing of personal information, if not appropriately managed, can result in serious ramifications, including data inequities, intrusion on freedom and dignity, and data bias and unfairness. Nonetheless, given that every speck of information recorded by people's daily activities at home and in the workplace can be obtained and reviewed for predictive analysis, market dynamics, and real application that can help to improve the world, it does seem implausible to deny people access to digital solely for the sake of confidentiality (Nissim et al., 2018). As a result, building a mutually advantageous link between improved technologies and privacy policy implementation must be acknowledged as a vital aspect of dealing with the new online privacy dilemma in the digital world. The essay herein provides a synopsis of the online privacy debates, the moral need to safeguard individual privacy, and prospective remedies to the present privacy issue arising from technological advancements.
Technological Advancements Pose Privacy Issues
Debates on privacy are inextricably linked to technological advancement. Researchers had worked to demonstrate how privacy as a moral ideal had developed with the advancement of digital innovations ever since the nineteenth century when conventional face-to-face communications started to be questioned by the advancement of urban growth and the advancement of information dissemination (Nissim et al., 2018). A mix of technical advancements, institutional reforms, and significant social transformations offered a slew of new dangers to confidentiality throughout the first 19th century. Innovative technologies (such as handheld webcams and telegram transmissions) were regarded as important sources of public concern about privacy protection during this period. Then, when the twentieth century began, with the fast availability of modern technologies, innovations such as the construction of the social security system were regarded as data protection intrusions, sparking intense debates over the limits seen between governmental and non - governmental domains, as noted in Figure 1 in the appendix.
The current data protection legislation was developed during the 1970s to safeguard privacy. The invention, adaptation, and new technology made it simpler and more efficient to acquire and modify private data. Furthermore, the rising use of technology in governmental services in the US&nbs...