Elderly Care

Intoday's society cameras are glancing at every step you take as well as well as every move you make. How do you handle that? Individuals are watching you, whether it's a surveillance cameras at the local gas station or it's the security guard at concert or football game. Does that make you feel untrustworthy? You post something personal on Facebook and later on decide to remove it, are you aware that that post is still on the internet although you deleted it? You may not see your post that you deleted but others will. In today's society, privacy rarely exists. There are special equipment and tools that individuals use when trying to invade someone's privacy that includes hidden cameras and satellites. Privacy no longer exists due to all the upgrading on new technology and programs that enabling the invasion of someone's privacy.

What is your definition of privacy? Do individuals today really understand what privacy is? Have they had the chance to experience privacy? The definition of privacy is "allowing an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal them selectively." When something is listed private it is usually something that is personal and valuable to someone. In the 21st. century everybody would like privacy but it is no longer "accessible." Everything that people desire to be private is no longer private. For example, before data bases were produce a patient's information was recorded and put into a filing cabinet. There were no security precaution preventing another physician from exploring someone personal files. A physician could do anything to the files without anyone comprehension because there was no way to find out. Now when you go to the doctor they have computer database that a patient's information is stored into. Although privacy is distinguish due to secure firewall and limited access, privacy can be endanger. Hacker have the capability to hack into anything they want. They could simply tap into the computer and access an individual personal information. Also, a hacker can be someone who is employed by a firm. Another matter that has surface is about emails. There have been some instance where people say that their emails that they send to someone are not only getting read by the individual they sent it to, but also a third party individual also. There are no verification or proof that this is true but certainly probability.(Anderson F.R. 2009)

Practically all social networks have a special way of obtaining individuals personal and private information. Everyone has encounter this type of incident at least once. The application Life 360 allows people to click a button and it will post your current location. For example, if you go to K-Mart and access this application, I would "check in" at K-Mart and it will give the full address of the location that you have checked in at. This