Privacy Issues

If you read my previous post, I discussed about privacy policy that it comes to website which users give out the personal details on it.

In this part I am going to speak about issues of internet privacy. One of the issues, more in case of emailing sites is about whether third parties are allowed to store or read the email without the informed permission or consent. The other issue is whether the site that collects the customer’s personal information should store or share it. Some deny the existence of internet privacy while others insist the necessity of it. It is obvious that the intent of internet privacy is achieving a controlled disclosure of user’s personal information and complete anonymity is not the aim of internet privacy. When users connect the internet, they connect to it by an IP address. And for security reasons, a website may track these addresses. Some websites may collect the non-personally identifiable information of their users. It means this information that users inter cannot be used to uniquely identify a person. This form of collecting information is acceptable. And some people prefer one form of privacy such as anonymity to the internet. It means allowing them to use fake or anonymous information. But in these situations, sometimes the cases of being stalked will happen.

I think internet privacy is needed an important in revelation of personally identifiable information but where the privacy puts the internet ethics on stake or in danger so it should be limited.    

source: http://www.e-businessethics.com