Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You)
Question #2
I think Etzioni shows aspects of privacy that we never really put a lot of thought into or things we have merely over looked. For instance, testing new born babies for HIV, it is something that should be routine in prenatal care that mothers do not want done, so when the baby is tested it is considered infringing on the mothers privacy. I think every new born baby, if the mother was not tested prior delivery, should be tested for HIV and if positive the mother should know and the baby should be treated. In the long run it is for the good of many more people then I think we see now. Also when Etzioni goes onto talk about biometrics I do not think we see how much good it can do for us, I believe we only see the negative side of it all. Biometrics could save our country, which is in a tremendous amount of debt, so much money, there are billions and billions of dollars every single year lost to criminals, who change names and get new aliases and essentially slip under the radar of the government. Biometrics should come into play in situations like this because people can change their names and use different social security numbers all they want but they will never be able to change their voice, hand design, or their eye patterns. This is how we can catch the criminals out there swindling billions of dollars from our nation. Privacy issues are a debate that I do not think will really ever end, I mean what is being too nosey and what is giving too much privacy? There will never be a fine line for us to see when our rights are being crossed. Etzioni goes into the slightest amount of detail about privacy rights but shows us so much.
Question #2
I think Etzioni shows aspects of privacy that we never really put a lot of thought into or things we have merely over looked. For instance, testing new born babies for HIV, it is something that should be routine in prenatal care that mothers do not want done, so when the baby is tested it is considered infringing on the mothers privacy. I think every new born baby, if the mother was not tested prior delivery, should be tested for HIV and if positive the mother should know and the baby should be treated. In the long run it is for the good of many more people then I think we see now. Also when Etzioni goes onto talk about biometrics I do not think we see how much good it can do for us, I believe we only see the negative side of it all. Biometrics could save our country, which is in a tremendous amount of debt, so much money, there are billions and billions of dollars every single year lost to criminals, who change names and get new aliases and essentially slip under the radar of the government. Biometrics should come into play in situations like this because people can change their names and use different social security numbers all they want but they will never be able to change their voice, hand design, or their eye patterns. This is how we can catch the criminals out there swindling billions of dollars from our nation. Privacy issues are a debate that I do not think will really ever end, I mean what is being too nosey and what is giving too much privacy? There will never be a fine line for us to see when our rights are being crossed. Etzioni goes into the slightest amount of detail about privacy rights but shows us so much.
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