NIT2201-IT Profession and Ethics

Assignment Objectives

The purpose of the assignment is to help prepare you to:

1. understand some of the important IT privacy concerns encountered by individuals and organisations dealing with digital materials, particularly the ability to control what information you reveal about yourself over the Internet, and to control who could access that information;

2. improve your library and research skills in finding relevant materials to an assignment task;

3. practise correct referencing of researched materials;

4. practise your writing of an opinion piece that incorporates and synthesizes researched materials

Task details

Online Privacy

Read the background case study as a starting point. Then research on two more case studies on online privacy, your essay should include your own opinion and the following issues ithe discussion (not as a question/answer format, but as an embedded discussion in the essay):

1. What is privacy? What is digital privacy? Describe digital privacy in Australia.

2. What are the issues of concern raised around digital materials?

3. What are the options to consider ensuring digital privacy?

4. What are the measures to ensure users are protected on platforms like Facebook, Google and iCloud?

5. Do all people need same level of privacy? Do some, who are more vulnerable in some way, need privacy more than others?

6. Do you believe that our legislators should pass new laws to protect privacy, given the new technologies and products that now collect information about us?

7. Should individuals bear the responsibility of protecting their own privacy? In your experience, do most people understand the way in which their information is accessed, collected, or otherwise used online?

8. Discuss a functional comparison between current privacy law in the European Union and in the Australia, as such laws relate to the online privacy. 

In completing this assignment, you are encouraged to discuss the topic with your classmates, however, you will submit an individual essay.