Internet and privacy

                                                                       Internet brings new challenge to the protection of privacy individuals .Information sent over the network may pass through many computer systems before it searches to the recipient’s computers .Each of these computer systems is capable of monitoring, capturing and storing the information .Many of the software available in the market are capable to collect and store data relating to the user of information in the Internet .Web sites are also capable to collect and store information pertaining to the visitors without their consent .Special software like  ‘Cookies’ is mainly used to trace the personal details of the visitors of a web sites .The ethical, social and political issues related with privacy are outlined below.

Ethical, Social and political Issues connected with privacy

 

The following ethical issues are more relevant in the context of privacy of individuals.

1 .Under what circumstances one can invade the privacy of others?

2 .Is it legitimate to enter into the lives of others through surveillance or through other means like market research/

3 .Is it necessary to inform the individual when the taping information about him.

Privacy of information also raises certain social issues .The society itself has to earmark certain areas where privacy of individuals are needed and protected .But practically it is not easy to decide and allocate certain areas of society as private territory .This is because the concept of privacy in the social perspective is quite different from individual to individual .The society is also required to determine whether the freedom privacy be extended to criminal conspiracies.