SOC384H5 Lecture 6: soc284feb28.docx
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Understand where we can reasonably have privacy, how much, and who we reveal info to. Tech advances in communication and surveillance impinges on ppl"s privacy. Internet is an enormous opportunity to collect private info about people. Issue sociologically b/c major players in private data = data collected shared widely. Gov"t and businesses use computers and these computers are linked. About imformation storage and processing [info = private] Financial fraud is good eason to retain control over private info on income and expenditures. Compromise b/w privacy + security not clear in how much trade off is actually happening. People argue we need to give up privacy to incrase security. Access to info like income if you want welfare or something. Mandates that info needs to be collected from you personally. 2012: enacted further legislation that increased standards and specificity on how private info is collected.
