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Government issued GPS Tracking Wristbands

George Orwell warned us of many possible nightmares in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four (published 1949). One such concern was the government's ability to track every citizen, knowing where they were at all times, who they interacted with and for how long, all awhile claiming to do so for the betterment of society, posing as the "Big Brother".

F.B.I. Halts End-to-End Encryption for iPhone's

The U.S. government has argued not having a backdoor into your encrypted phone is making criminals more powerful. Activists argue, having a backdoor into the encryption will allow criminals and other countries easier access into iPhones everywhere.

The Ethical Privacy Policy:

Quid Pro Quo Approach Since information has become useful to both corporations and the government, our privacy has been in jeopardy. What follows is a method to ethically uphold privacy of the user of technology, for it has been the creation of our technology that has undermined our right more than any other form of data collection.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) was coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 for a power-point presentation. Since then, it has become the de facto name in reference to any device which connects to the Internet. This networking of devices allows communication and control amongst one another without human intervention.

Weaponizing anti-privacy app against COVID-19

Google, Facebook, data analytics firm Palantir and Clearview AI are said to be working with the US government to track users in order to monitor the spread of Covid-19. The first two are well known and equally known to infringe on user's privacy, the latter is an artificial intelligent startup company for facial recognition.

For the sake of Humanity

Key terms and concepts for studying the humanities In a wold so focused on progress and improving dividends to shareholders, we are starting to lose focus on what separates humans from other animals. The following activities of our species are so prevalent in every major society, that we named the overall branch of knowledge that pertains to these activities after ourselves, we call them the Humanities.