3 enlightening cases of internet privacy.

3 enlightening cases of internet privacy.

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Target Vs Teenager and Father:

This was a case of a retail store ; Target, whose at every point they gather information of the customer to be able to package and direct adverts to the potential customers of their products. An enlightening case to me was that of the teenager that was being sent e-mails related to baby products and her father complaint about it. Meaning that the buying behavior of he teenager had being used against her , though her father did not know such email was sent to her daughter at the initial stage but am such he should few months down the lane as his teenager delivers .

I imagined if the father had pressurized the teenager at this time, he would probably had gotten truth about his daughter pregnancy, this is ordinarily a secret i presume the teenager would want to keep from her father but internet revealed it.

Details available  at http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/could-target-sell-its-pregnancy-prediction-score/

Another case is that of Ade vs Kidspeace: here, Ade an employee of Kidspeace found on her wife Myspace account sexually inclined message from his supervisor to his wife. This might work against Onwusho (the supervisor) and even Ade`s wife at the case is also internet privacy related. Details at https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17491912573109612082&q=facebook+OR+twitter+OR+linkedin+OR+myspace&hl=en&num=100&as_sdt=2006&as_ylo=2010&as_yhi=2012

Case of leaked(hacked)  nude pictures of Ms Jennifer Lawrence (America actress) leaked  and discussed by „“The Wrap“. The pictures  was taken for her personal consumption and not public consumption and to me she has the right to privacy but forgetting the fact or not taken into account that we are in an internet world where hacking is an everyday routine. The pictures were leaked and caused a lot of uproar for the actress as some treat the case like sexual crime. http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/02/06/fifty-shades-shocker-dakota-johnson-jamie-dornan-are-actors-play-make-believe-characters/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/09/01/jennifer-lawrence-nude-photo-leak-isnt-a-scandal-its-a-sex-crime/

This to me has violated the article 12 of  the universal of human right because Jennifer`s pictures were interfered (a bridge in privacy). http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

This is also a case related to the fact that your words or actions might be used against you either now or in the future.

On a final note, i agree with the  conclusion of the supervisor that internet allows surveillance of others without them knowing and also the statement in one of the MIT reviews  that internet  provides free services in exchange for personal information(privacy bargain) and this could be the worst deal ever.