Also, financial histories are kept online too. They are made available to credit agencies and banks (Salvatore 2). Anything can be found on the Internet; therefore, anyone can find anything, easily invading people privacy.
According to Jason Catlett, "we are starting to see various businesses for which privacy is core part of their value proposition." (Jones 1). Some vendors are actually billing new online shopping tools to enhance privacy. Something like barcodes, so everyone is individual (Jones 1). Everyone who gets on the computer has to deal with privacy. For whatever you are using the computer for, it is a huge problem to deal with (Lynch 2). Therefore, individual privacy is key. If we keep privacy invasions to a minimum, individual and business privacy will be kept.
As easy as it is to access the Internet, it is the same for being a cyber crook. Anyone who is computer literate can access people's data on the Internet. If someone can turn on a computer, they can view information that should not be. Therefore, obstructing people's privacy. (Henderson 16). Computer hackers often beat the system by using technology evolving everyday. (Stephens 3) Therefore, cyber crooks, hackers, and thieves are taking advantage of the evolving technology, and using it for what it is not supposed to be used for. It is very easy for a cyber crime to occur, considering there are six different categories of crimes. These groups are Communicational, Governmental, Business, Stalking, Terroristic, and Virtual (Stephens 4).
Privacy is needed. As major concern, people rate computer privacy as number one (Brandt 1). As well, when talking about computers, they worry about privacy more than anything else. (Lynch 1) Many companies are stealing credit card numbers, and selling them, thus resulting in millions of dollars in loss (Stephens 2). Worries about privacy about computers networks and security databases are a range of topics.
