Table 3: Concerns about IT and Society
| Response |
Privacy or Freedom Related Response
|
|---|
| Advanced IT will reduce the need for people to interact. |
|
| Blurring of the lines between work and personal life beyond
what individuals would prefer decreased control over personal information (ie
that obtained by telemarketers) 'data smog' decreased examination of where
our technologies are taking us alienation due to technology that is created
without regard to its use or practical effects extreme corporate intrusion
into personal lives in the face of lax governmental controls on how companies
use IT to monitor and steer consumers environmental impact of the continuous
cycle of planned obsolescence and in the worst case IT enabling totalitarian
states via the currently available technologies of national ID cards
face-recognition technologies, GPS, smart money, RFID tags, and subcutaneous
microchips. |
R |
| Continuous exploitation by unknown attackers for the benefit
of conducting and/or continue to conduct cyberwarfare. |
|
| Cybercrime and cyber-terrorism |
|
| Dehumanization of society and moral beliefs. |
|
| Digital divide, Ethical use of technology, Communication
exchanges including rumors, myths, and other non-factual information. |
|
| Ease of access to private data - either through malicious
intent or lax policies. |
|
| General fear that technology leads to job reduction. General
fear of big brother technology such as GPS and web browser tracking. |
R |
| Greater depersonalization, less commitment to local talent |
|
| Greatly reduced face to face social interaction. |
|
| Homeland security unfunded mandates. |
|
| I am not an engineer and I feel that the mindset of the
technical person feels that everything revolves around technology. They either
forget or do not understand that other issues are more important to the day to
day business activities of corporate America. I have seen a trend in the last
several years to become more dependent on the decisions and recommendations of
the IT department. This can lead to many bad corporate decisions and must be
tempered. |
|
| I believe that machines are getting faster and smarter thus
allowing users to be less coherent on the general aspects of IT. |
|
| Identity theft and loss of privacy. |
R |
| I'm concerned with the risk of having your life hacked. As
technology is used for home automation or personal convenience type things the
risk of an attacker disrupting your life is much greater. Appropriate
investigation into preventing these things needs to occur. I also feel that
technology can have a very positive impact on society if used properly. A
computer in the home makes life much easier by managing your finances
scheduling contacts, etc. Once all the glitches of using and integrating these
types of applications are overcome people could spend less time on these tasks
and more time with family friends or working on hobbies. Basically quality of
life MIGHT be improved. |
R |
| I'm most concerned that technology is used by people who
understand only a small part of it but it was developed by people who think it
should do everything. If this trend continues I see problems with people using
technology that is doing more than they want it to and are unaware that this
is even happening. |
|
| Inappropriate access and use of personal information. |
R |
| Individual privacy rights in the public domain! |
R |
| Information technology will continue to lead to the
displacement of jobs. This will occur as a result of productivity increases
(efficiency) and outsourcing to foreign nations. |
|
| Intrusion into business data personal stored data. |
R |
| Invasion of privacy and too much information being kept with
the inevitable errors. |
R |
| Isolation of the humans! |
|
| IT provides leverage. Organizations and people that have IT
(like the US gov't TIA or Experian) have leverage over those (especially
individuals) who do not. We are not educating new IT workers in ethics or
responsibilities or even the relevant laws. |
R |
| It seams to me that most companies continue to develop and
enhance IT by taking every expedient to avoid honest thought about solving
real problems or satisfying quantifiable needs while placing marginal
consideration on security or personal privacy and the effect of their efforts
on society and the economy. |
R |
| It's enabling people to be constantly accessible not ever
able to turn off. We are constantly bombarded with more information than we
can process. There is no time off. |
|
| Job loss, privacy loss, security issues |
R |
| Joblessness |
|
| Kids accessing porn and getting molested |
|
| Lack of built in security and lack of privacy. |
|
| Less personal interaction in business. |
|
| Lessen traditional research and thinking skills. Create less
patient society. Also much, much less privacy. |
R |
| Loss of Individual Privacy |
R |
| Loss of privacy |
R |
| Many people react without thinking of impact of their
answers or actions. |
|
| My greatest concern is educating the employee who is not
directly involved in a security project that they have an impact on the
company's security our customers' information security our company's
reputation. |
R |
| People will become more lazy. Having almost any type of
information at your finger tips allows individuals to perform many tasks
without understanding the fundamentals of the problem (e.g. mathematics and
engineering). |
|
| People will have little privacy |
R |
| People will lose their skill in interacting with others.
They will not think for themselves but will accept anything the computer tells
them as the truth. |
|
| Personal Privacy concerns (will we get to the point where it
is easy to track and retrieve very specific data on individuals) Digital
Divide -- are people being left behind |
R |
| Personal security |
R |
| Privacy |
R |
| Privacy and identify theft |
R |
| Privacy and security |
R |
| Privacy management of personal data is probably the highest
concern I have. |
R |
| Protecting personal data |
R |
| Society will be more informed by various sources rather than
just what they were able to get locally from Newspaper Radio and television. |
|
| Stolen Identity |
R |
| Stress of available 'data' and bombardment with it -
Inadequate security for personal communications of all sorts - Lack of
understanding of available security and/or lack of scaring people
unnecessarily or making them vulnerable to personal attack. |
|
| Technological improvement is faster than social evolution |
|
| Technology has the tendency to isolate people from one
another. Human interaction on a face to face level seems to drop off as the
technology of IT grows. |
|
| Technology is outpacing the general publics ability to learn
about the dangers and risks of using technology. For example using the
Internet to conduct business. |
|
| That proper security measures don't stay current with
Technology. |
R |
| That society (primarily folks who reach upper management
levels) may become too dependent upon IT and loose the interpersonal skills
that are so desperately needed and woefully inadequate to manage large number
of personnel. |
|
| That users do not have time to be adequately trained and
retrained as technology is introduced into their job functions. Users don't
respond well to change. Even less so if they won't/can't take time for
training. |
|
| The ability to infiltrate systems more easily and take
personal and other private information for criminal or unethical use. |
R |
| The acceptance and understanding of how technology can
remove the divide between being trained in technology to using technology for
the better of society |
|
| The digital divide between the haves and the have-nots of
both our society and the world. Threats to innovations due to patent
litigation. |
|
| The loss of privacy |
R |
| The unknowns of security requirements within government
combined with a lack of policy enforcement. |
|
| Too much trust placed in systems not proven trustworthy. Too
much is assumed by the average citizen about these black boxes and their
programmers and operators. Too much complexity for anyone to truly manage or
control the systems and those who operate them. |
R |
| Uninformed or mis-informed politicians will rush to
legislate that which should *not* be legislated and won't legislate what
*should* be legislated. |
|
| We already have trouble communicating with one another in
person and as more transactions become automated human interaction and people
skills are likely to deteriorate. |
|
| Widening of the digital divide and the concurrent impacts on
society. |
|
| Will information technology and the training required to use
improve and leverage the various technologies it creates be available to all
members of society? |
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