1. How can the use of Internet search engines to locate information about people be controversial
from a privacy perspective?
Solution
Using search engines to lacate informantion about people is controversial from privacy
perspective because, it is effecting the wealth of the personal information.here the privacy is the
issue because almost anything about an indivudual can be known through the search engines.
Ordinary people put their data on the Internet for various reasond like, connectivity with family
and friends, educational forums, research forums etc. All these are the puroses due to which
personal information of an individual is put over Internet. To make the access easy these search
engines record all sorts of data which include personal information also.
These search engines are useed for malicious purposes. Using search engines many people can
know the movement of other people. Let us consider one example.As in today's world every one
uses mobile phone with internet connection,from a normal person to the higher official,
celebrities every one uses Internet over phone. let us consider a celebrity has been to a coffee
shop. If an admirer of the celebrity is willing to know where the celebrity is, he can know with
the help of the search engines. There are some websites which help you follow a particular
person through internet. using GPS the current location of the celebity can be traced and if the
admirer in the same geographical domain he can even reach the celebrity without his knowledge
and permission into his personal space. This is called as stalking. there are many websites which
help you stalk.
This example explains how controversial locating information through search engines with
respect to the privacy.There are many other issues with respect to privacy
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