Cell Phone Privacy

Whenever we sit in the subway, eat in the restaurants, work in the offices, or study in the classrooms, it seems that we can always see people play around their cell phones. Cell phone is used extraordinary frequently and widely and takes an important role in people’s daily life. The crowd use cell phones to do a bunch of things, such as calling, texting, searching the Internet, taking photos, using GPSs to get directions and so on. Individuals have large demand for those cell phone’s utilities. However, the enormous demand will also bring notable privacy threat to the public. There is a contradiction between cell phone users’ demands and privacy threats as well as the necessity for those users to learn to how to balance the two things. More specifically, people need to learn to balance the contradiction between their snapshots sharing demand and following potential exposure issue; the contradiction between the demand of using GPS service utility and location tracking threat by organizations or companies; even the contradiction between their will of containing criminal activities and the exposure threat of their personal information.

The snapshots utility of cell phone can cause privacy issue if people upload their photos from their cell phone albums to the Internet. The use of photo taking utility is very common for camera phone users to record their daily life because cell phone is portable and nearly every cell phone has a camera lens, it enables them to take photos anywhere and anytime. Therefore, people will always hold their cell phones to take photos for catching beautiful and meaningful moments. As a consequence, most people would like to share their photos on the Internet, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagr...

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