Question

broadly discuss how/why one's privacy is threatened due info. system technology & internet

Answer 1

As the world has become technology oriented and use of internet is on rising so the privacy of people is also at great risk or threat. Privacy means a person's personal space and information that they do not like to share without thier consent. Any person or thing get access of person's information without authorization and use it for any purpose like defame, asking for ransom money, destruction etc then privacy is breached.

With increase use of information system technology like laptops, tablets, smartphones connected with internet connection, all the data of people is online. The great example of this is use of social media where users put thier personal information like name, address,contact information etc and made public. This threaten privact of people. There are many ways privacy is threatend with information system and internet. for example- Hacking in which a hacker get access to company site or personal computer of a person and access to all the data and information for illegal motives. They can download personal photos and files like bank accounts, information and violate privacy of person.

The great recent example is Facebook Cambridge analytica case scandal. This was the scandal where data and information of millions of users was used by Cambridge analytica for political campaigns of Trump without user's will and authorization.

There has been several privacy scandal like data breach of yahoo, Verizon,adobe,ebay, equifax etc where personal information of millions of people has been compromised or we can say breached because of information technology and internet.