Privacy in the Digital Age
Thursday, October 15, 2009 by sca
Security cameras are all over today and individuals are getting more and more conscious of its presence. According to Bob Sullivan, in the digital world that we live in today it is very hard to keep any secrets because of the digital bread crumbs that we leave behind. These digital bread crumbs become bits and pieces that strangers can put together and figure out who you are and where you come from. Privacy in the digital age is becoming an important factor that many are thinking twice about and carefully considering. Surveillance cameras are present everywhere in malls, schools and even on the road. They monitor what people are doing and help restore peace and order in the society.
Around New Zealand there are speed cameras on most of the busy roads. Binning discusses in her article that about 9500 tickets were issued on East Coast Rd on Auckland’s North Shore in nine months. Police collect about $50 million a year from speeding fines. Waitemata Road Policing Manager Superintendent John Kelly said that speed cameras are being installed so that attitudes of motorists would change by issuing them tickets. He also mentions that he has a big concern for the pedestrians who are the school children and that his job is to make them as safe as possible.
Authorities can now monitor the way motorists drive around New Zealand and can easily send a speeding ticket by mail to a person’s house. Drivers now are more aware of these technologies of surveillance and at time drive more cautiously keeping in mind that every move they make is being watched by someone behind the camera.
Privacy in the digital age is becoming more and more complicated everyday. Today one will never know when he or is being watched or not.
Around New Zealand there are speed cameras on most of the busy roads. Binning discusses in her article that about 9500 tickets were issued on East Coast Rd on Auckland’s North Shore in nine months. Police collect about $50 million a year from speeding fines. Waitemata Road Policing Manager Superintendent John Kelly said that speed cameras are being installed so that attitudes of motorists would change by issuing them tickets. He also mentions that he has a big concern for the pedestrians who are the school children and that his job is to make them as safe as possible.
Authorities can now monitor the way motorists drive around New Zealand and can easily send a speeding ticket by mail to a person’s house. Drivers now are more aware of these technologies of surveillance and at time drive more cautiously keeping in mind that every move they make is being watched by someone behind the camera.
Privacy in the digital age is becoming more and more complicated everyday. Today one will never know when he or is being watched or not.