The Privacy Invasion of Consumers Through the Internet and Bluetooth De

The Privacy Invasion of Consumers Through the Internet and Bluetooth Devices ABSTRACT Faster, easier, and cheaper assenting to a plethora of teaching, products and people is a primary stimulus for the ripening number of online consumers who use the Internet to fulfill information foraging, communication and vocation needs. Oddly enough, these conveniences appear to override users concerns of concealing invasion. As the mechanisms butt end information technologies become increasingly transparent, users must trust the companies producing the products to protect them from privacy invasion and refrain from deceitful consumer information practices. Should consumers continue to put reliance in companies who may be more concerned about pecuniary gains than consumer privacy rights? Since congress has refused to regulate industry information practices, consumers need to gull that the responsibility of protecting their personal information lies in their own hands. It is the consumers responsibility to research company backgrounds, investigate privacy policies, become advised of privacy invasion techniques, and learn security safeguards to ultimately make communicate decisions and remain in control of how and with whom their personal information is used and shared. basis Do corporations respect consumers rights to privacy? In 1999, a Sun Microsystems gaffer executive riled consumer privacy counselors when he brazenly declared, You as a consumer form zero privacy anyway. Get over it (as qtd. in Turow 8). Privacy advocate groups such as the Federal Trade Commission and the American elegant Liberties Union question the ethics of inconspicuous collection of personal information and urge legislative action against privac... ...FTC Tough Love. USA right away Cyberspeak. 05 May 2004. 01 Dec 2004 <http//www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/ericjsinrod/2004-05-05-sinrod_x.htm.Sullivan, Bob. Online Privacy Fears are Real. MSNBC News. 6 Dec 25 Nov 2004 <h ttp//msnbc.msn.com/id/3078835/Turow, Joseph. Americans and Online Privacy The System is Broken. A Report from the Annenberg unrestricted Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. June 2003. 24 Oct 2004.<http//www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/jturow/internet-privacy-report/36-page-turow-version-9.pdfWhat is Spyware? Spy Checker. 01 Dec 2004 <http//www.spychecker.com/spyware.html.Yahoo Privacy. 28 Mar. 2002. Yahoo. 02 Dec. 2004 <http//privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/.Zetter, Kim. Security Cavities Ail Bluetooth. Wired News. 06 Aug 2004. 27 Oct 2004 <http//www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64463,00.html.