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Data Privacy

The document discusses the debate over government access to personal mobile phone records for safety reasons, arguing that such access infringes on privacy rights. It emphasizes that other data, like location information, may be more effective for ensuring safety and that laws protect personal communications from unauthorized access. The author concludes that using personal data without consent is unlawful and could lead to public distrust in government actions.

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Data Privacy

The document discusses the debate over government access to personal mobile phone records for safety reasons, arguing that such access infringes on privacy rights. It emphasizes that other data, like location information, may be more effective for ensuring safety and that laws protect personal communications from unauthorized access. The author concludes that using personal data without consent is unlawful and could lead to public distrust in government actions.

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Some people believe that governments should

have access to people’s mobile phone call


records and messages for safety reasons. Others
believe that this information is private and
should not be available without permission.

To what extent do you agree or disagree

Information privacy has been a heated debate among society throughout recent years.
There are a school of thought holding that data such as phone calls or text messages
should be in governments’accessibility for safety purpose, I am of the opinion that
there are more valuable data to ensure citizens’ safety and it is people’s rights to keep
those information private.

It might be argued that governments’ access to personal phone calls or texts can be an
effective solution toward some bad scenarios, eventually it can help assure citizens’
safety and social order. The rationale is that by analizing these information, bully or
terrorists can be detected and prevented beforehand. However, during the analizing
process, there is a high chance that unadequte information of context or background
knowledge of the dialogues can lead to unprecise decisions and meaningless series of
actions afterward. If this scenario happens, it is not only a waste of time and resources
but also a cause to social disbelief in governments themselves. When considering
safety, other data such as location beyond just phone calls and texts can be
more crucial for risk assessment. During mid-April in 2019, Taiwan successfully
prevented the spread of COVID-19 on one of its island by tracking locations of a crew
of infected sailor that came there as tourists and sending warning texts to dwellers who
was in contact with them.

Moreover, in many jurisdictions, phone calls and text messages are protected under
laws that safeguard personal data and privacy. In the US, for instance, has such law
which is called Telephone Consumer Protection Art (TCPA) that prohibits interception
of wire, oral, or electronic communications without proper authorization. This
generally means that recording phone calls or reading text messages without the
consent of all parties involved is illegal. Vietnam recently aslo passed its Personal Data
Protection Law, which regulates the processing of personal data, including
communications data. By all those, I mean that government using personal data
especially digital communications data without permission of citizens and without
publicly informing is not a lawful action even if it is for citizens’ safety. If
governments continue to apply this method through coercion, mass public opposition,
protests or disbeliefs in state machinery are inevitable among societies.

In conclusion, meanwhile, authority access to individuals’ digital communications data


such as phone calls and texts might stand a chance of reducing bully or terrorist, I
firmly believe that certain data such as location are much more effective in risk
prediction and risk management., moreover; using those data without dwellers’
approvement is against the law.

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