Cyber Advocacy

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Term Paper Title	Cyber Advocacy
# of Words	1528
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	6.11

Cyber Advocacy

     The right to privacy in America in a basic right, but the new advances in technology threaten this right.  With a drastically increasing amount of people using Internet and online services their privacy is at stake and most of them don't even know it. Online services are private communities for subscribers only.  They are not actually the Internet, but a private service with their own features.  However most online services such as America Online offer Internet access through their service and they do take steps to protect you from fraud over the Internet. Unfortunately direct Internet access providers leaves your protection completely in your own hands, since they are merely providing you with a connection.   This problem with privacy is not only one that reaches everyone in America but  reaches everyone in the world with a computer .  Due to the sheer magnitude and potential of this problem it is very difficult to advocate because it reaches everywhere.
     Thousands of people everyday log onto online services and Internet services, but how secure are their transactions and affairs.  More and more people are using online methods to purchase items over the Internet, but how secure is their credit card and billing information?  Most of the services provide encryption to protect consumers from fraud, but many others offer no kind of protection to keep consumers information private.  Also our privacy can be violated in different ways such as access to personal medical records.  Many employers like checking out possible employees for and mental or physical health risk that may occur while in their employment, which seems reasonable enough.  However access to this information could be highly misused by anyone with a motive.  Currently there is no law to protect medical information on the Internet, but are strong laws protecting video rental list.  Anyone with computer and the right tools could most likely find out all your medical information, but they wouldn't be able to find out what you rented from Blockbuster the other night.
     One such incident occurred to navy sailor, Timothy McVeigh(No relation to the bomber).  McVeigh was accused of breaking the Navy's Don't ask, Don't tell, Don't pursue policy and he was discharged from the service.  Upon an investigation it was later found out that the evidence supporting his dismissal was obtained from America Online, which is the nations largest online service.  This was clearly an invasion of aut...

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