Privacy is a very huge concern in our world right now. The fact that people can get a lot of information about you by just the click of a button scares a lot of people. There is not a lot we can do about it though. Yes, the governments has the right to get your information, but should the average every day person have the same right?
In life, when one person messes up, usually a lot of people are affected. That one person ends up feeling bad but there is usually nothing that they can do. They are stuck feeling guilty for something that they can’t change. Because we are in a technology world there is a lot of information of different people posted everywhere. In the article “Stolen Credit Cards Exposed on Google-report” by Elinor Mills, she discusses the facts on how the internet is getting easier to hack into. The people that created the internet also created a bunch of loop holes. In life there is always going to be more that one way to do one task; one may be faster, but the other way may be more affective. This also applies to the internet; if you know your way around it, you may be set for life. The internet has ways for people to cheat and a lot of people do so. Just the other day 19,000 British web user’s credit cards information was reviled to the public. Websites may contain a lot of information, but they do not have the right to reveal that information.
news.cnet.com. 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. 26 March. 2009 http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10207447-83.html
People all over the world are being affected by the internet in both good and bad ways. Our world is changing and we need to change with it; People need to realize that as the internet changes laws need to change. In November of 2007 a young sixteen year old girl named Alison Chang was horribly humiliated due to the fact that Virgin Mobile Australia used a photo of her that a friend posted as an advertisement. The friend posted the picture on to a website called Flicker and he never thought that anything would come of it. Flicker is a photo sharing website. The friend had the rights to the photos of himself, but not for the photos of Alison; this was due to the fact that her friend had a CC agreement. New laws need to be created due to the internet. People need to realize that the world is changing and we need to change with it. There are a lot of copyright issues. Doesn’t this affect the right of publicity issues and copyright issues? Flicker states that once the photos are up they have the right to use them. By them saying that you could make the argument that it is affecting the deformation claim and invasion of privacy claim. The court room has the right to decide what laws that they are going to use because the laws overlap in many ways. Virgin Mobile should have received her parents’ permission before using the photo. A way to prevent this is just by reading the terms of use policy. A person should always know what they are posting and who has the right to look at it. Once something gets in the wrong persons hand and they have control over it, things go bad.
CNN Video. Ryan Zehl. 4 August. 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IV88jLP2gY
People are being more reliant on the internet and this is both a good and bad thing. People need to realize that the world is evolving but a person should never fully rely on one thing. There are a lot of people out there who don’t know what privacy means; people need to have control over themselves and they need to learn how to make their own decisions. When you post things on the internet about yourself you are putting yourself at risk. There are a lot of creepy people out there and you never know what is going to happen. People need to make things safe for them. You should never put yourself at risk. I’m not saying to keep yourself fully isolated, you just should be careful.
Fredrick, Kathy. "Privacy Please!." School Library Media Activities Monthly 25.6 (Feb. 2009): 43-45. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. San Jose State Martin Luther King Library, San Jose, CA. 31 Mar. 2009http://search.ebscohost.com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=36216922&loginpage=login.asp&site=ehost-live.
-Sarah Dominguez
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Sarah, this is not really an assessment of the 3 sources. You seem to be trying to come up with an essay here instead of doing the assignment. What happened?
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I agree with the professor. It seems like you are making more a beginning argument for an essay with your critiques from these sources. Also, you have plenty of information to critique on, especially with privacy and network-sharing policies. Although, the first article did not seem like an authoritative source, but more of a a short summary report on the credit information being stolen from Google. Probably you can find a similar article arguing on how sites like Flickr are sharing information that affects individuals privacy.
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