Essays on Information Technology Page 5

Architecture, landscapes, monuments are witnesses to the centuries of history of a nation. It embodies the culture of the nation. Although citizens know the greatness of their nation, inevitably, some are still unaware of the remnants of history and culture. Ignorance could impede efforts to preserve an irreplaceable piece of history and culture, which often…

In today’s society, hundreds are killed by police officers yearly. To be specific, 987 people were shot and killed by police in the year 2017 (The Washington Post). In general, I personally don’t believe we have the right to play God on Earth. But with video graphic evidence present during police encounters with the public,…

In order to protect the patient’s privacy in healthcare systems, there are continuous efforts made to limit the exchange of identifiable medical information to only the entities that may be directly involved in providing medical care to the patient. Although patients can request their records be sent to others, they are never involved with the…

Information is a vital company asset. It sets us apart from our competition and drives our daily activities and decisions. You play a role in protecting our confidential information by controlling how you use it, store it, and communicate it. If you use or have access to confidential information, you are required to safeguard it…

Information Security Analysts plan, upgrade, and/or monitor the security measures for the protection of computer networks and their information. They install firewalls in computers to protect against security breaches and viruses. This is the career I chose because it involves problem-solving and dealing with the security of private information. I personally enjoy doing anything with…

The web browsers play an important role in our daily interaction with the computer. Social networking, web searches, visiting different websites, all these activities would bring up the subject of privacy and how our actions are being tracked on the web browsers. You are tracked on web with the tracking cookies. Your browsing habits are…

My connection might be a bit unique, one instance that I have experienced in the last couple of days that I believe to show the value of information was during my Informatics Senior Capstone course. The class is composed of six students, four handpicked by two students (including myself). As we were able to choose…

In this article the author is trying to analyze privacy from the stand point of economics but in a tentative manner. This article considers several other aspects of privacy like seclusion, extending the analysis to defamation. He is looking into the original meaning of term privacy as ‘nonpublic in the sense of uninvolved in matters…

Before the 1990’s, which was the year the internet really started to bloom, we used information systems in a different way than we use them now. Forty years ago the idea of information systems was to “maintain files and databases related to day-to-day operations” ( W. (2017, July 31). The Role of Information Systems in…

These advancements continue to grow exponentially, so does the human dependence on these machines. Artificial Intelligence, during recent times, is one such technology that has been severely impacting the human race. Artificial General Intelligence is the intelligence of a machine that enables it to conduct tasks with the intellectual capacity same as humans such as,…