Invasion Of Privacy Research Papers Samples For Students

Arunabha Banerjee

Senior Associate, Corporate & Compliance Solutions, Thomson Reuters
Abstract
With the advent of technology, the level of invasion into the territory of our individual privacies has increased significantly. Fancy gadgets have crept into changing rooms, lockers, washrooms and in some cases public places to record the most intimate acts, which when revealed would embarrass any victim. In spite of the best efforts of the state legislators, the laws do not sufficiently address the core issues. Even the judicial pronouncements lack sufficient foresight in laying down the gauntlet for the peeping toms. The situation is clearly calling out for ...

Introduction

The Employment at Will Doctrine is basically a principle that is applicable to an existing employment agreement between an employer and an employee. The doctrine covers grounds based on ethics and at some point, even morality that is applicable to both the employees and the employer .

Scenario 1

Employees are considered as very important parts of a company. This is why in most cases, every act that a company’s employee commits is generally considered as a representative act of the entire organization . In the case of John, the one who posted a rant criticizing the company’s most important customer, he violated two laws of ...

Introduction

The media is quite a powerful entity which in the recent times has been viewed with skepticism and also suspicion depending on the context. The media has a right to provide information even on individuals but questions have been raised on how far they can go when it comes to invasion of privacy. On the other hand, in some nations such as Egypt, the media has provided a much needed tool for expression with insights from different parts of the world. This is important given the years of a repressive that the Egyptian people have had to endure. In the recent uprising against ...

MEMORANDUM

Re: Sally Reporteur’s News Story on the Reform the Electoral College Movement
FACTS
Sally Reporteur recently graduated from a prestigious journalism school. Soon after graduation she found a position as reporter for a local news station. Based on her educational background, and the small staff at the news station, her supervisor gave her a fairly significant amount of discretion to find, investigate and write her own news stories. Like many people of her age group, Sally was quite adept at using information technologies for both her work and in her private life.
One day, while she was chatting ...

Introduction

The National Security Agency (NSA) is the largest intelligence agency of USA that gathers information to detect any potential threat to USA. Recently in 2013, it created a lot of buzz when Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, revealed to the media about the clandestine surveillance programs of the NSA (NCPA 2014). According to the documents leaked by Snowden, the NSA spies on over a billion of people worldwide by intercepting their calls. Not only that, the NSA has access to the phone records of all the American citizens for the purpose of mass surveillance. It was also revealed that PRISM, the ...

Political Science

An in Depth view of the Department of Homeland Security
History of the Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security was brought about by the tragedy of the September 21 terrorist attack of the Al-Qaeda group. It was during this time the two airplanes purposely targeted to cause destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. This event was regarded as the worst act of terrorism in America after the loss of 3,000 innocent lives. It was during this difficult time that the world grieved for America ...

Video surveillance is slowly but strongly enforcing itself in the society today. CCTV cameras and other surveillance equipment including software can be found almost everywhere. The law enforcement agents are using CCTV footages to identify and prosecute criminals. CCTV cameras are found in banking halls, the mall and also on the streets. CCTV cameras are very handy in deterring criminal activities and maintaining harmony on the streets but in not properly utilized can lead to invasion of privacy. The private space of an individual is where they are not under any unauthorized surveillance (Harris 2004) The fourth amendment law ...

Thesis Statement

Changes in our society have given rise to new aspects of privacy that need protection under the Constitution, such as the right to certain privacies of our mind or body, or the right to privacy in the digital world.

Annotated Bibliography

Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis. (1890). The Right to Privacy Harvard Law Review. 4(5): 193-220. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1321160

The authors begin with a discussion of how our Constitutional rights to the safety of our person and property have evolved to protect the intangible as well as the tangible. Our right to the safety of our person now ...

Health Reforms: Home Care Reforms in Canada

The Canadian health care system has undergone several reforms in the last decade. In 2001 the Prime Minister instituted “The commission on the future of healthcare in Canada,” commonly known as the Romanow Commission. The Romanow report recommended improvements in primary care, home care, catastrophic drug coverage, Aboriginal health among others. Expansion of home-based care services such as palliative care, post-acute patient management and mental healthcare featured prominently among the proposed home care reforms. Accords by ministers have also backed home care services and increased funding to this sector. This paper presents the Home Care reforms at the national ...