Personal Privacy

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Personal privacy issues include intrusive actions to obtain financial and personal data resulting in the perpetration of crimes . With increased usage of computers and the Internet personal data is increasingly the target of criminals . This will discuss threats to personal privacy , vulnerable areas , and safeguards

Introduction

Personal privacy is one of the contentious issues in business organizations today especially in connection with the computerization of most functions within organizations and even in the government . Claims

br against infringement on people 's personal privacy cost organizations and indeed the government , millions of dollars in terms of compensation and fines paid to victims who are aggrieved by the intrusion of their personal privacy according to the federal and state laws . Buote (2007 cites , irresponsible shredding of s as one of the greatest risks to personal privacy

Identity thieves collect bits of information from dustbins and dumpsters which they later on compile to access the most crucial information that any identity thief is always on the look out for the social security number of the potential victim , names of the potential victims as well as the victim 's date of birth . Indeed , most companies fail to adhere to simple procedures in dispensing of obsolete records . For any organization that is not keen on how it deals with the unneeded records the dustbin can be the source of the problems especially in regard to the fact that , it is in the dustbin where most of the records , which originate in the office end up (Buote , 2007 . An organization , which lacks proper rules on protecting private materials risks suffering from one of the most subtle forms of personal privacy the use of poorly discarded records

This avenue of loss of data is the least emphasized considering the fact that organizations are always on the look out for cyber criminals which infiltrate the organization 's internet by cracking the passwords . Far from it , the organization faces as much risk from irresponsible or unethical conduct on the part of the staff . For instance , contracting the wrong company for the job is an avenue for problems . The above is a pointer to the fact that , identity thieves are turning into less costly and less obvious methods of violating personal privacy

The identity thieves realize that , every organization has put in place high-tech gadgets to guard against the theft of data such as credit card numbers (Buote , 2007 . As such Identity thieves are aware of the fact that stealing directly from financial institutions such as banks is harder than ever before considering the fact that , banks have put in place pre-emptive measures and other areas where clients are likely to use credit cards such as shopping malls . The fraudsters are willing to wait longer and recollect bits of information in the least likely ways

In this aspect identity thieves choose to go about their work the old fashioned way , by pilfering (Buote , pg . 1 . Pilfering results when those...