Social issues in IT cover vast territory. There are issues of personal information, privacy, security, tracking, and more. I'm intrigued by the delicate balance of convenience and privacy. "Current technologies enable data collection and integration on a scale previously unimagined with both benefits and unintended consequences (Kontzer & Greenemeier, 2006). One unintended consequence is that daily, we read of some new loss of individuals’ organisation-held, personal information. As data losses amass, the realisation that personal information privacy (PIP) is no longer manageable by individuals becomes clearer" (Konger, Pratt, & Loch, 2013. P. 401).
I'm all for convenience--prepackaged salads make eating healthy a lot easier, and having websites store your passwords means one less thing to remember--but as Konger, Pratt, and Loch point out, we pay for convenience with the risk of PIP loss.
How do we solve this? Is it even possible?
Works Cited:
Conger, S., Pratt, J. H., & Loch, K. D. (2013). Personal information privacy and emerging technologies. Information Systems Journal, 23(5), 401-417.
