UTILITARIAN THEORIES

The Utilitarian theory states that people should be concentrated on the betterment of society. Thus, focusing on the majority of society and not so much on the individual. Seeing how events and actions effect society as a whole for better or for worse. When looking at the privacy issue, you end up having to look at society as a whole even though it varies from individual to individual. If people are severly raped of their privacy, it starts to become a problem for everyone. The internet greatly contributes to the problem with the lack of privacy in society today because of how easy it is to access and download private documents, reports, etc of individuals. Being that the government and companies have really been slacking in their control of access to private files on the internet, it has started to create a problem for many individuals, thus our entire society is beginning to be effected. Privacy on the internet is starting to become an increasing moral dilemma and as of now, the only way you can really protect yourself is at home on your web sites by investing in encryption agencies which help to keep access to your information down to a minimum through passwords and such. But this is only individually, you still have a lot of your documents and such which are handled by large companies and the government and you have no control over they handle your information.