Essays on Privacy

The medical information and pertinent data across United States America is secured and provided with the necessary privacy as per norms legislated under the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). This law was into enforcement during, president Bill Clinton’s tenure in August 1996. The…

HIPAA stands for the health insurance portability and accountability act, which is an act that protects a patient’s information and identity. This act is used in all health care facilities, medical schools, and nursing schools to protect any information about patients from being disclosed rather…

Cybercrime is a crime that comes in many different forms and happens daily. With it being a newer crime, it makes it hard to police because we don’t have cyber police just yet. Identity theft and phishing are more of the common types of cybercrime…

FICA, you see it being taking from every paycheck you get. But what really is it? According to Investopedia. com “The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) is a U. S. law that creates a payroll tax requiring a deduction from the paychecks of employees as…

On August 31st, 2014, the Internet was struck by a massive online leak of private photos (most of which contained nudity and other sensitive materials) from more than one hundred celebrities, such as Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton and famous pop…

In this essay I will be investigating how severe the problem of online personal data being used for malicious purposes is. Private information can be defined as information of a person that they wish to keep to themselves so that the public does not know…

Verge (XVG) and Monero (XMR) are the two top privacy coins in cryptocurrency at the moment. The largest mount seen in the entire crypto market is in the Privacy sector. Both of these coins provide anonymity over the Internet, which makes them very popular among…

There are couple of conditions among those which make up the these days state of human noesis more not at all like what may have been normal, or more huge of the repressive country in which reflection on the most imperative subjects still waits, than…

All modern communications involve metadata. Using the internet creates metadata. Interacting on social media creates metadata. Simply using your smartphone creates metadata. If someone were to compile all your metadata they would be able to draw a detailed picture of your life including your interactions,…

West and Turner (2018) introduce the communication privacy management theory (CPMT) and identify it as a balancing act of revealing and concealing information. This theory reflects similar qualities to the social exchange theory presented in Chapter 9 as they both consider risk and reward. Instead,…