Online Identity Theft Research Paper

Online identity theft is a crime whereby criminals impersonate others using information about an individual gathered from the internet, typically for financial gain. If a thief is able to access your personal information, he or she can use it to commit fraud in your name, either online or in the physical world.

Online identity theft is an issue of ethics as we all have a right to privacy, and online identity theft is a serious violation of this right. The thief now has the ability to gain access to a number of the victim’s personal information including financial and banking records. Also, some of the ways that thieves go about accessing this information violates one’s privacy, such as a malicious spyware or viruses that takes the information from your computer.

Society’s position on this topic can be …show more content…
As online identity theft is a crime, it is not done for the purposes of the greater good.

Due to the relatively modern nature of the topic, there is no direct link to online identity theft or identity theft in any official church documents or values. But after researching for the broader term; theft, one can gather that the church views theft and stealing as being acts of pure evil, and that people who commit these acts should be looked down upon. It could also be said that a person who commits acts of evil such of this is not in ownership of agape which is the highest form of love for all mankind and God.

I personally share a similar view on online identity theft; theft, as that of the Catholic church. I have been raised with strong values about respecting others and their property and the act of identity theft goes against these values. My view is that identity theft, no matter the reason to do it, is a second-rate act for someone to perform and that the person who steals another’s identity should be looked down upon in the eyes of the law and be charged for their