Unemployment - Replace "advances in technology" for "increased productivity" and the primary change from a labour-intensive to a technology-enabled economy can be explained. While information technology may have streamlined the business process, it has also created job redundancies, downsizing, and outsourcing. ICT can make someone more efficient at their job; a company can therefore employ less people to complete that job. For example: In a factory, skilled technicians and machinists can be replaced by computer-controlled robots which can work faster, for longer and more consistently or large companies who used once employed many typists they can now be replaced by one person using a word processor. +

  Privacy - Though information technology may have made communication quicker, easier, and more convenient, it has also brought along privacy issues. From cell phone signal interceptions to e-mail hacking, people are now worried about their once private information becoming public knowledge. An example of this could be the embedding of microchips n virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items — and, by extension, consumers — wherever they go, from a distance.