Also the stress factor needs to be recognized as the overall negative thing
it is and that it should be avoided. How do you feel when you mail order
something, and then receive every bit of junk mail that is even closely related
to what you ordered? This is only the tip of the iceberg (Glastonbury and
LeMendola 424). While one is growing up, studying, playing, working, etc...
there are people compiling ones interests, and anything else about a person that
anyone could even want to know. This is an obvious invasion of privacy, when
personal information is compiled and sold. What about when incorrect data is
furnished? The location and correction of data is not as simple as it may sound
(Glastonbury and LeMendola 428).
The only kind of personal databases that should be made are for medical or
personal purposes, not for someone else to compile data about someone else and
then sell it. The best solution for this would be for it to come to a complete
stop. Lack of privacy is a bad problem, not just a problem. When one feels like
their privacy has been invaded they are likely to become less productive,
stressed, and it could just be downright damaging if some bit of personal
information becomes public gossip. Privacy is not something that should be
limited to a few who control today's most privacy invading technology. This is
not techno phobia (Browning 16 Economist), privacy is a right that should be
respected. How do you feel when there has been an obvious invasion of your
privacy?
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Behrens and Rosen. Privacy and Technology. Writing and Reading Across the
Curriculum.Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen. 6th ed. New York: Longman,
1997. 420-423. Browning, John. No Hiding Place. The Economist v. 328. Aug. 7,
1993. 16-17. Glastonbury and LeMendola. The Nature of the Meaning of Data.
Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard
Rosen. 6th ed. New York: Longman, 1997. 423-429. Westin, Alan F. Computers in
the Workplace: Elysium or Panopticon? Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum.
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