Privacy refers to the seclusion of information regarding an individual or a group of people, thus making the access of that information to be selective. Privacy ensures that the other people or parties do not have knowledge regarding the individual.
- What risks, if any, does facial recognition software raise?
The performance of facial recognition can be considerably affected by the facial changes in humans over time, like the development of wrinkles, as well as beards. More over in the facial recognition software performs differently in different lighting conditions and thus it can relay wrong data in accordance to the different conditions of lighting. Furthermore, the facial recognition software infringes on individual’s privacy and thus people cannot perform their businesses anonymously as they are being spied on. Also the facial recognition is neither perfect as it fails to identify the difference between two faces on an image.
- How much information about you can be found on-line with a simple google search?
Many of the individuals information is already on the internet that is through the social networking accounts sites, as well as the blogs that one has registered to. Some of these platforms makes the information one has entered available on the internet. Therefore one can be able to get information like the home address, date of birth, religion as well as other individual details online. Thereby through searching your name on the internet people can find lots of information regarding an individual with some being inaccurate while others being accurate.
- How much information about you can be found by searching government and commercial databases?
Most of the government’s and commercial databases is used in the determination of the government benefits from disaster assistance to housing aid. On commercial databases the through the use of the payroll number the employees can be able to get their personal details like identity numbers, date of birth as well as other personal information. Therefore, the commercial databases also have to meet the accuracy and privacy standards like that of the governments databases.
- Describe informed consent.
Informed consent refers to voluntary agreement that is associated when carrying out research on a particular subject. It generally refers to the process in which one understands the risks as well as the research itself. Therefore, the informed consent involves parties that sufficient detailed information regarding the scope of the study.
- Should secondary use of consumer provided data be available without notice to the consumer?
The data needs not to be made available or disclosed to other purposes rather than the specified ones. Without having a notice, the consumer may not be able to make a decision regarding the extent the personal information should be disclosed.
- How do data mining and predictive analytics work?
There are several steps that are involve in the data mining. The first one is the extraction of the data and loading it to the data warehouses. Second one is storing the data in the servers. Then the business analyst accesses the data and determines how it should be organized.
Then the data is sorted using an application software presenting it in a format that is easily understandable. The predictive analytics then patterns the data in a manner the it will be possible to merge it again together.
- Watch this Science Friday video by Ira Flatow. And, offering your opinion- Are advancing algorithms taking our free will?
Advanced algorithms impacts the decision making regarding individuals, corporations as well as the governments. Also they also have impacts in regards to the movements of political campaigns, social movements as well as terrorist groups. therefore, its likely to cause great impacts on the social fabric of a society thus taking the individuals free will.
- Should Facebook be regulated, at least as far as it’s privacy and data policies?
In regards to the evolvement of the web, the social networks captures and stores large amount of individual’s data. The disclosure of these individual’s data could be have great effect to an individual. thus Facebook needs to be regulated in order to control the amount of the user’s data that need to be available out there on the internet.
- How many public cameras is too many?
The public cameras that are installed on the streets are purposely for the observation of the security status in an area. In case there are too many of them in a public environment, people become uncomfortable as they feel that their right of privacy has been infringed.