week 3

Question one

A company, which is called Australia company Multicard, has been found it breach the privacy of customers and the privacy Act which made their personal information online by Australia’s federal privacy commissioner. The breach involved 9000 personal information that included name, date of birth, address, credit card, etc., can searched online by google it. Then a huge number of remediation will be faced by the company.

Grubb, B. (2014). Australian business Multicard breaches privacy of 9000 after records found through Google. The Sydney morning herald. Revisited 2rd May 2014 from http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/australian-business-multicard-breaches-privacy-of-9000-after-records-found-through-google-20140501-zr2j8.html

  What AmI technologies are identified in the case?

Sharing and exchanging information, data merged with the computes to establish a network for this kind of activities without legislation involved. The information and data is collected form million individual computers then sell back for them.
What drives DMC’s officers to take the actions they took?

The reputation of the DMC will decrease and the share price of it will go down and the trust of clients will loss. Even the DMC will go bust.

DMC is the clear market leader in the aggregation of AmI data. Are there any comparisons you can make to technology companies today?

There is a high probably make a technology company nowadays, but the size will not as big as the DMC. Because, company need the information about their market, and the government need the data about their governed regions, people. For instance, every company want to sell a new product, it will arise a foretaste first, and collection the feedback for the market. Therefore, we can make the kind of technology companies for selling data for the organization that they want the data and information.

How realistic is the description of governments using the technology and prohibiting immigration from states with no AmI data aggregation information?

Generally speaking, it is not allowed that immigration reside the country before knowing about them by government. However, the collection of AmI data aggregation information will usefully help the government to reduce the process of immigration because the information has already been known.

What would be the impact of this digital divide?

The gap and differences between the users who have assessed to information and data and different authorities for assess is digital divide. In this case the reputation of DMC will be collapsed and also the stock market will be impacted to decline.

List some of the ‘unintended consequences’ described in the case.

Ensure the safety of the private information while deal with them as a company. Because the private data and information can be exposed easily by hacker and negligence.

Company won’t confirm the information has been stolen until the last minute, which is the time they have to make an announcement, because the face had been found by the public.

Do members of the class all agree on the issues raised by this case? What were the main points of difference (if any) in discussions?

Nowadays, the private information of person is becoming more and more important, even, many company and countries information and data has been collected by the data and information company such as DMC. Hence the level of private decrease to the end. For example, the procurator will using the private e-mail of you and the recode of you computer as evidence to assist the litigation. And also, for the public safety, sacrifice some personal private or using some illegal method is worth.