PRIVACY PROTECTION

Free market versus consumer protection approaches

Approaches to privacy can, broadly, be divided into two categories: free market, and consumer protection.In a free market approach, commercial entities are largely allowed to do what they wish, with the expectation that consumers will choose to do business with corporations that respect their privacy to a desired degree. If some companies are not sufficiently respectful of privacy, they will lose market share. Such an approach may be limited by lack of competition in a market, by enterprises not offering privacy options favorable to the user, or by lack of information about actual privacy practices. Claims of privacy protection made by companies may be difficult for consumers to verify, except when they have already been violated.

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Privacy Law

PRIVACY LAW

Privacy law is the area of law concerning the protecting and preserving of privacy rights of individuals. While there is no universally accepted privacy law among all countries, some organizations promote certain concepts be enforced by individual countries. For example, the

In the United Kingdom, it is not possible to bring an action for invasion of privacy. An action may be brought under another tort (usually breach of confidence) and privacy must then be considered under EC law. In the UK, it is sometimes a defense that disclosure of private information was in the public interest.

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COMPUTER PRIVACY

Computer Security Ethics and Privacy

Today, many people rely on computers to do homework, work, and create or store useful information. Therefore, it's important for the information to be stored and kept properly. It's also extremely important to protect computers from data loss, misuse and abuse. For example, businesses need to keep their information secure and shielded from hackers. Home users also need to ensure their credit card numbers are secure when participating in online transactions. A computer security risk is any action that could cause loss of information to software, data, processing incompatibilities or damage to computer hardware.

An intentional breach in computer security is known as a computer crime, which is slightly different from a cybercrimes. A cybercrime is known as illegal acts based on the Internet and is one of the FBI's top priorities. There are several distinct categories for people that perpetrate cybercrimes, and they are: hacker, cracker, cyberterrorist, cyberextortionist, unethical employee, script kiddie and corporate spy. A hacker is defined as someone who accesses a computer or computer network unlawfully. They often claim that they do this to find leaks in the security of a network.

The term cracker refers to someone intentionally accessing a computer or computer network with malice in mind. They access computers with the intention of destroying or stealing information. Both crackers and hackers are have advanced network skills.

A cyberterrorist is someone who uses a computer network or the internet to destroy computer systems for political reasons. It’s similar to a terrorist attack because it requires highly skilled individuals, millions of dollars to implement and years of planning.

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Who are computer criminals and their object?

Some computer criminals are mean and sinister type.But many more wear suits,have university degrees,and appear to be pillars of their communities.
No single profile captures the characteristics of a "typical" computer criminal,and many who fit the profile are criminals at all.

ZERO-DAY ATTACK☻☻☻♥♥♥

takes place before the security community or software developer knows about a vulnerability or has been able to repair it.

What would you do?

1.You have just been hired as an IT security consultant to fix the "security problem" at a manufacturing company has been hacked mercilessly over the last six months with three of the attacks making headlines for the negative impact they have in the firm and its costumers.You haven given 90 days and a budget of 1 billion.Where would you take to fix the problem?

2.You friend just told you that he is developing a worm to attack the administrative system at your college the worm is harmless @ will simply cause a message "Let's Party" to be displayed.

POLITICS

When running for a politics you should consider of collecting data,identify stakeholders if you are acceptable for politics,you should also consider the consequences of your decision.if this will affect your life specially to your family and what can contribute to us.

7 STEPS IN DECISION MAKING

1.Get the facts.
2.Identify stakeholders and their position.
3.Consider the consequence of your position.
4.Weigh value guidelines and principle.
5.Developed and evaluate options.
6.To review your decisions.
7.Evaluate the results of your decisions.

Are IT workers Professional?YES or NO?

For me,yes,because when we say profession,it is calling that requires specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation.We all know that if you finished computer courses there is no board exam because this is only a skill that easy to learn,this is not like other courses that requires taking board examination like medical courses,that's why for me IT workers are professional.