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Privacy in Public is a right to be respected. If a human does not wish to share his or her personal details, then those pieces of information should be left private. Some personal information surrounding an individual typically becomes public information once they leave their private residence and enter the public domain. What car one drives, what clothes and brands someone wears, their marital status, spoken language, and physical appearance can lend a great deal of information to who you are as a person. Income can be estimated, individual location can be ascertained, and physical identity can be described based on watching an individual walk from their house to their car. Though this might not be an accurate reading, it is a breach of privacy that most humans forgo by existing outside of their personal dwellings. Is being recorded a breach of privacy one overlooks or simply dismissed in order to watch a sporting event live? As Shoemaker says, “it is no wonder that most of us have reason to object to the sort of profiling produced by data mining. That a stranger may come to know our flaws is mortifying.” He continues, “when it comes to the exposure of ourselves, most of us prefer that our selves be the ones doing the exposing.” <ref name= Shoemaker> </ref> It is a matter of autonomy and control at the root of the numerous violations of privacy in public. | Privacy in Public is a right to be respected. If a human does not wish to share his or her personal details, then those pieces of information should be left private. Some personal information surrounding an individual typically becomes public information once they leave their private residence and enter the public domain. What car one drives, what clothes and brands someone wears, their marital status, spoken language, and physical appearance can lend a great deal of information to who you are as a person. Income can be estimated, individual location can be ascertained, and physical identity can be described based on watching an individual walk from their house to their car. Though this might not be an accurate reading, it is a breach of privacy that most humans forgo by existing outside of their personal dwellings. Is being recorded a breach of privacy one overlooks or simply dismissed in order to watch a sporting event live? As Shoemaker says, “it is no wonder that most of us have reason to object to the sort of profiling produced by data mining. That a stranger may come to know our flaws is mortifying.” He continues, “when it comes to the exposure of ourselves, most of us prefer that our selves be the ones doing the exposing.” <ref name= Shoemaker> </ref> It is a matter of autonomy and control at the root of the numerous violations of privacy in public. | ||
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| + | [https://criminal.findlaw.com/expungement/expungement-basics.html Expungement] in the age of social media and mass media has become a hot topic in the domain of public privacy. Laws on Expungement differ state to state, with some former criminals able to apply for expungement after 5 years from an encounter with the law. While the time frame for applicability seems reasonable, implementation and other concerns surrounding the practice are of concern. Expungement is granted to relatively few applicants each year, usually later than the 5 year minimum to apply, and once it is granted, it can be difficult to fully remove the records from the internet due to the development of data-brokers. [https://www.webfx.com/blog/general/what-are-data-brokers-and-what-is-your-data-worth-infographic/ Data-brokers] scrape the internet for records on individuals, storing that data and sometimes failing to update these records years past<ref name='data-broker'>Wayne, Logan Danielle. “THE DATA-BROKER THREAT: PROPOSING FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO PROTECT POST-EXPUNGEMENT PRIVACY.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 102, no. 1, 2012.</ref>. | ||
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Revision as of 08:14, 9 April 2019
Contents
Applications
Data Mining
In David Shoemaker's 2009 paper, Self-exposure and Exposure of the Self: Informational Privacy and the Presentation of Identity, he explains the “puzzle” of privacy in public with reference to data mining. He states that data miners draw on bits of publicly available information, such as social media data reveals or public records. These data miners are seen as unethical by informational subjects who believe their privacy has been violated because their personal data has been taken out of context and packaged into a data sets portraying their digital identity. [1] [2] In conclusion, data mining is the process by which existing data is analyzed in order to create new data which relies on preexisting personal data sets widely available in public. [3]
Social Media
One way that this public data comes to exist is through social media. Social media is the collection of the social network sites that engage people through user accounts via the internet. Some examples are Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. These accounts can be “private” or “public” as decided by the user. It is important to note that all information posted on these websites are voluntarily supplied by the user. While not every account is publicly accessible, all information supplied to these sites is accessible in some way.
Social media use is an example of a public in privacy. Facebook is a public domain where users voluntarily share their personal thoughts or stories through posts. Accessing this public sphere in a private setting, such as using a phone or personal computer, deems social media a public available in privacy. Therefore, the information that is posted to Facebook is public data, thus making it a target for data mining. For example, data miners might be interested in how many Facebook users between the ages of 18 and 25 are “in a relationship.” The discussion of data mining, with respect to public data, is often masked by the crime-prevention veil of public surveillance.
Public Surveillance
Public surveillance is the idea that your privacy is ignored in public settings. A few examples of this are facial recognition at the Superbowl[4], fingerprint scanning at Disney World,[5] and public collections of phone numbers and email addresses through retail store databases. [1]. Public surveillance, however, is a (violation of) privacy in public. Private and personal details, such as eye color, fingerprints, telephone number, and address can all be accessed publicly, in a public setting, such as Disney World or a football stadium. This is where technology jumps to the unethical side.
Ethics
Surveillance and Privacy
Privacy in Public is a right to be respected. If a human does not wish to share his or her personal details, then those pieces of information should be left private. Some personal information surrounding an individual typically becomes public information once they leave their private residence and enter the public domain. What car one drives, what clothes and brands someone wears, their marital status, spoken language, and physical appearance can lend a great deal of information to who you are as a person. Income can be estimated, individual location can be ascertained, and physical identity can be described based on watching an individual walk from their house to their car. Though this might not be an accurate reading, it is a breach of privacy that most humans forgo by existing outside of their personal dwellings. Is being recorded a breach of privacy one overlooks or simply dismissed in order to watch a sporting event live? As Shoemaker says, “it is no wonder that most of us have reason to object to the sort of profiling produced by data mining. That a stranger may come to know our flaws is mortifying.” He continues, “when it comes to the exposure of ourselves, most of us prefer that our selves be the ones doing the exposing.” [1] It is a matter of autonomy and control at the root of the numerous violations of privacy in public.
Expungement
Expungement in the age of social media and mass media has become a hot topic in the domain of public privacy. Laws on Expungement differ state to state, with some former criminals able to apply for expungement after 5 years from an encounter with the law. While the time frame for applicability seems reasonable, implementation and other concerns surrounding the practice are of concern. Expungement is granted to relatively few applicants each year, usually later than the 5 year minimum to apply, and once it is granted, it can be difficult to fully remove the records from the internet due to the development of data-brokers. Data-brokers scrape the internet for records on individuals, storing that data and sometimes failing to update these records years past[6].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shoemaker, David W. "Self-exposure and Exposure of the Self: Informational Privacy and the Presentation of Identity." Ethics and Information Technology 12, no. 1 (2009): 3-15. doi:10.1007/s10676-009-9186-x.
- ↑ Stanford University Press Privacy In Context Hellen Nissenbaum 2009
- ↑ "What Is Data Mining?" SAS. Accessed March 15, 2019. https://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/analytics/data-mining.html.
- ↑ Woodward, John D., Super Bowl Surveillance: Facing Up to Biometrics. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001. https://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP209.html.
- ↑ Mathews, Devante. "Walt Disney World Now Requires Biometric Finger Scan for Children!" Orlando Tickets, Hotels, Packages. August 30, 2016. https://www.orlando-florida.net/walt-disney-world-now-requires-biometric-finger-scan-children/
- ↑ Wayne, Logan Danielle. “THE DATA-BROKER THREAT: PROPOSING FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO PROTECT POST-EXPUNGEMENT PRIVACY.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 102, no. 1, 2012.
