Jarvis is an associate profession at the City University of New York’s School of Journalism and is interest in privacy issues comes at a pivotal point as no other issue so dominates the thinking with regard to online usage, both in the United States and the world.

Over the course of the past several months, Congress has introduced several pieces of legislation with regard to online privacy, and the Obama administration has released to reports that call for greater oversight of online commerce. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has increased its regulatory monitoring and in September 2011 proposed an expansion of privacy policies with regard to children. Initiatives are also taking place at the State level, and Europeans are also looking to expand privacy policies they first implemented over ten years ago.
Regulation is the name of the game!

Yet, Jarvis claims that all this talk of privacy may have a downside in the form of too much protection and oversight. While people do value privacy to a certain extent, there is also a value to be derived from “publicness” and the making of worldwide connections that the Intent has fostered. This is the basic premise of his book, Public Parts.

In his book, Jarvis explains how publicness can enhance interpersonal relationships, strengthen community ties, foster collaboration, promote transparency and integrity, and advance democratic ideals, among other benefits. Innovation has always given rise to privacy concerns—the printing press, telephone, camera, tape recorder—and now the Internet. Jarivs points out that ultimately each new innovation introduced wonderful new benefits to society as a whole and the fears of privacy invasion fell by the wayside. The Internet and all the angst it gives rise to with regard to privacy, is just the latest entry in this recurring drama.

Perhaps the most important contribution of the Jarvis book is that it reframes the question of privacy in terms of ethics rather than law. As per Jarvis, “Privacy is an ethic governing the choices made by the recipient of someone else’s information, while “publicness is an ethic governing the choices made by the creator of one’s own information,” From this statement a few guiding ethical principles can be created: Protect and safeguard the information of other people; Be open and transparent about what is done with this information and how it is shared; Provide people with access to the information that is collected about them; Don’t use information to harm but to provide benefits and add value.

The goal here is what others have referred to as “digital citizenship”. This isn’t so much a legal issue as it is about changing social relationships and creating ongoing and open dialogue about ethical behavior with regard to Internet usage.  Just as “real world” society has established checks and balances so that we may all live together peacefully, so should Internet users establish a set of moirés whereby respect and integrity rule. According to Jarvis, “The Internet is life, only bigger and faster,”  “The lessons you learned as a child and those you teach your children about how to treat others all still apply.”

Jarvis maintains that the policy for protecting privacy needs to be balanced against other rights and responsibilities. For example, part of our constitution states that we have a right to pursue happiness not that we a right be happy. No government can guarantee that—even if a universally accepted definition of happiness can be applied.  The same can be said of privacy. We have the ethical right to live private lives and take precautions to ensure the security of private information via encrypted servers or bank and credit card account information. But, just as it is hard to create a universal definition of happiness which could then be construed as a “right” so it is hard to apply a universal definition of privacy because it is a subjective interpretation.

Movies and other visual media often provided clues as to how we anticipated the future to be: Star Trek painted a picture of humans traveling through space, exploring, with a smorgasbord of cool gadgets; 2001: A Space Odyssey had a similar vision, but predicted communicating via video chat, browsing news on tablet-like computers, and artificial intelligence.

Another place where the future was brainstormed and visualized was commercials and other marketing tools of technology companies, such as Apple.  A great example of how the past predicted future developments is the following concept video from Apple in 1988.  To think that in just 20 short years, we have made the technology from this video mostly a reality is astounding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xp4aRpcX5So

Watching this video makes me wonder what companies are cooking up now, and where the future could possibly take us.  What’s next? Teleportation? Flying cars? Robot maids?  Seems to me like we’re just getting started.

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Mariana Ashley is a freelance writer who particularly enjoys writing about online colleges. She loves receiving reader feedback, which can be directed to mariana.ashley031 @gmail.com.

A man in New York decided to buy his wife a new iphone 4S and enabled location sharing. He had suspecting that she has been cheating. Upon tracking her he found her location confirming her lies.
“I got my wife a new 4s and loaded up find my friends without her knowing. She told me she was at her friends house in the east village. I’ve had suspicions about her meeting this guy who lives uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there. I just texted her asking where she was and the dumb b!otch said she was on 10th Street!! Thank you Apple, thank you App Store, thank you all. These beautiful treasure trove of screen shots going to play well when I meet her a$$ at the lawyer’s office in a few weeks.” He posted on MacRumors forum thread.
So make sure when you receive your iPhones this Christmas you check your location settings!

Sergey Brin, a Russian-born American computer scientist, says” We want Google to be the third half of your brain.” Google search engine has penetrated into the lives of human beings, big time and now it’s difficult to stay away from it. There are a million things that Google does for you. It is highly impossible to understand all that Google has got to offer.

Here are few services from Google that may not have had the limelight that they deserve.

1. Google Offers

Google Offers allows users to find the best deals in their respective areas. All a user has to do is to sign up with Google Offers inorder to get exciting deals in their respective areas. In case you are interested in any of the offers, the service allows you to buy voucher via the Google Checkout. You may print it and use it. However, this offer is available only to the US as of now. As far as UK is concerned there are a ton of other sites like PS Discounts having offers and deals helping to shop online with discounts.

2. Google Insight for Search

The Google Insight is an excellent application that allows you to search for interest volumes and the interest patterns amongst Google users. The search results could be on specific regions, time frame, categories and properties. These search results are based on what people prefer to type in the Google’s search bar and that can be of any interest – sports, movies, products etc. The terms used for searching them are displayed for you in a neat graph showing you the frequently used keywords.

Sometimes this concept feels very funny. Imagine asking Google itself, what people prefer to put on it, what words and in what pattern and the search engine reveals the secret. This is a great tool especially for those who are into the Search Engine Optimization all the time.

3. Google Patent Search

Google Patnet Search allows google users to explore patents on different topics. The service also allows you to download patents from a variety of categories including Science and Technology. The downloaded contents are usually in the PDF format. Google Patent may not be very attractive for a non-technical person but it sure has its own value for people who are in search for it.

4. PostRank

PostRank is another excellent google service that has been launched by Google recently. This service accumulates data on social engagements. With a number of widgets and plugins, like its extension for Chrome, this service filters the most favoured posts among the ordinary ones. It goes about the business using social statistics like Tweets, Facebook shares, etc. and intelligently determines the quality of the post.

5. Google Wallet

As the name suggests, this google service allows you to turn your mobile phone device into a wallet. This service can function in smartphones with inbuilt card readers. This card reader pre-scans your credit card details and makes a virtual storage of details in the microchip of the mobile. Hence your future shopping can be done by simply tapping on the screen to make payments.

Well, well, well! You may wonder if there is anything at all in this world that is more powerful than Google. But all that I can say is:

Do not get amazed by what you just knew.

For more Google products are in queue,

What this champion cannot do is few,

The search engine has it all for you.

There are number of other Google products and a number of them being released in future. All of these will make us even more dependent on that tool: GOOGLE. In other words, all these services are well set to make our lives more luxurious.

Author Bio:

Sanjay is a blogger who writes on the latest happenings in the markets, on product reviews, news, on public sector discounts, local authority benefits, about google services and informative articles.