Ethics Assignment - Privacy 2

I am not sure if we have moral obligation to protect our own privacy, but one must develop it. As giving a reason to it, I would like to refer to Allen's article where she says, " If a person has a moral obligation to protect her own privacy, then assuming moral obligations creates prima facie reasons for acting, she would have a reason over and above prudent self-interest to adopt measures to safeguard important privacies.” Although It also depends on where you want to protect your privacy. Privacy could be on social media, it could be your information that websites collect when you visit or shop online. They track you, website might set a ‘cookie’, which is a small text file on your browser. Cookies could be good or bad because they remember you, they can customize a site to your information and preferences. A user might block cookies from a website. It should be one’s own duty to protect your privacy. All this comes under digital privacy. Protection about privacy should be in every sector and everyone must care about it.

It is a collective obligation, as one must do his own duty to protect privacy like governments are also recognizing the need to protect the privacy of their citizens to some degrees at least. There are a lot of laws regarding the privacy protection, particularly in the United States. I will consider common law privacy protection, the Constitutional right to privacy and privacy legislation in the U.S. So, I believe it is one’s own duty too to learn about protecting our own privacy.