Nt1310 Unit 1 Case Study

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1. RFIDs are silicon chips that can tag almost anything, like sensing doors opening or even on animals to track milk production.
2. They are event data recorders that capture many numbers and data just before an automotive crash. It records speed and other important statistics that need to be known to figure out what happened in a crash.
3. Little brotherism is a system where everyone has the capability to be detectives, judges, and corrections officers. Big brotherism relies more on cameras and data collected by electronics by phones and other things like EDR’s as opposed to human justice systems
4. Computers and any electronic devices record everything that a user does, including what apps they use, what website they go on, and the phone’s location. Everyone should know this so they are more aware of who knows what they are doing. This will prevent people from going on
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It is definitely possible to identify someone based on the person’s gender, birthdate, and zip code. This typically narrows down the pool of people to one or two people in the case of a doctor office’s database. There is a fairly low chance that two people will share the exacts same birthday, gender, and zip code in context of only one doctor office. Obviously this is bound to happen a couple times, however the information will still narrow down the options of patients to 3 or less people almost 100% of the time.
6. It is half effective and half not. This act still has loopholes and large federal companies still ignore it. They are determined to collect as much information of anyone they can. However, the reason the privacy has an effect is because most of the time the federal companies that get this information can’t publicly use it against an individual or they would be telling the whole world they are disobeying this act. This allows people to feel half safe, but also aware that government agencies still have more information than anyone because of the internet and connections they