Privacy is a distinct human right. It connects to the
fundamentals of information technology through the accessibility to
information. The information can be found on hardware, software, systems and
the internet. Data is present in our everyday lives for example when you online
shop and type in our name, address and email address on a website, this is an example
of visible data. There is also less visible
data that is being collected through computing. For example, there are firms
that specialize in data brokerage where they profile people’s online activity and
behavior and use it for marketing. Personal data is captured at such a high frequency
that storage and use of the data is becoming an increasing concern.
Computers store data in two different ways, the first of
which is call Random Access Memory (RAM). The RAM is an internal component in a
computer that is included in the motherboard that allows the computer to store
data temporarily. RAM is only in use when the computer is powered on. The other
way computers store data is through the hard drive. The hard drive consists of spinning platter
that hold data permanently, even when the computer is not powered on. These
hardware components hold the personal and sensitive information of each of its
users. Therefore, the important of safeguarding them is essential.
With emerging technology programming languages are being
used to combat privacy. Furthermore, with mobile and web applications that
manage users’ personal information it requires developers to align their software
with privacy requirements commonly described in privacy policies. RSL-IL4Privacy
is a domain-specific language that can be simultaneously manipulated by
computers and analyzed by humans. It can improve the quality of privacy
policies and also identifies threats to validity (Caramujo, 2019).
Cookies is another way that program language is tied to
privacy. They are small pieces of data
from a specific website that is store on a person’s computer while they browse
the internet. Keeping track of a user’s browsing activity for ads and
remembering login credentials. Most
websites that we visit have a pop up that is programmed to get acceptance for
cookies. Depending on how the website uses the website it can be beneficial or
harmful.
“In the cloud computing system, both application software
and databases are moved to the large data centers, where data should not be
secure in the hands of providers (Jaglan, 2015).” This an example of how privacy
plays a role in privacy. The data that
is being sent to the data center must also be secured. In this case data is
being stored remotely in another locations and customer need reassurance that their
data is being protected when using cloud computing as a means to backup data.
Databases also need to be secured. The security plan will
depend heavily on the size and nature of the database and on its business
requirements. Different objects such as tables, logins, users and roles can be
granted permissions to access different securable. This also explains why
network architecture, management and security is so heavily influenced by
privacy.
Caramujo,
J., Rodrigues da Silva, A., Monfared, S., Ribeiro, A., Calado, P., &
Breaux, T. (2019). RSL-IL4Privacy: a domain-specific language for the rigorous
specification of privacy policies. Requirements Engineering, 24(1), 1–26. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.1007/s00766-018-0305-2
Jaglan,
V. (2015). Proposing Efficient Approach to Improve Integrity Checking in Cloud
Data Security. International Journal of Recent Research Aspects, 2(3), 125–129.
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