With so many advancements in technology, I am not surprised that our privacy is compromised. However, I am extremely surprised by how few laws there are to protect us with regards to the internet. I enjoy watching documentaries on Netflix, and recently watched “I am Jane Doe.” It is a documentary about human trafficking and the legal battle of American mothers for their middle-school aged daughters, who were trafficked for commercial sex on Backpage.com, an advertising website (cite). It was terrifying to see that the courts would not hold Backpage.com responsible for any damages due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (Hornaday, 2017). I know this does not relate to mobile health apps, but I feel all of this is very connected,
Here’s what- The student I performed the DIEBALS Benchmark Assessment on was a fourth-grade girl who can sometimes be hyper, but overall is well behaved and willing to learning. For privacy purposes, we will call her Jane Doe. Jane accurately read 26 words out of 31 on the first reading passage, 25 out of 44 on the second, and 30 out of 40 on the last reading passage. After finding the median of the scores, Jane had a 72% accuracy reading on the Oral Reading Assessment with a Median Retell Quality score of 1. Additionally, Jane answered 6 out of 8 questions correctly on the DAZE assessment. Jane’s scores placed her below the cut point of risk for the first benchmark assessment of her fourth grade year.
Daniel Solove, a professor who specializes in internet privacy law, wrote this book to give his personal take on how the internet was transforming the way people connect through social mediums and how that could change in the future. An important thing to note about this book is that it was published in 2007, so some of the social and technological aspects of the book are slightly dated. Regardless of this though, this book provides an inquisitive perspective on the dynamic nature of the internet as a vessel of our society’s changing norms on privacy in the social sphere. Many of our learning points in class relate to topics discussed in this book and help to strengthen the context and significance of the underlying message.
The internet is a vital part of our lives, but what if I said it was a completely public one? Privacy is a rare commodity in today's world. As Nicholas Carr writes about in his essay “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty,” corporations pay close attention to citizens. The most frightening part is that this practice is perfectly legal. Even recently the government stripped more of our privacy away. In the beginning of April 2017, President Trump repealed regulations by the Federal Communications Commission that would have forced internet service providers to gain consent before selling data collected from their customers. However, corporations aren't the only ones capturing data from internet users. The government is also making use of these records.
In the article “The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger?” written by Cathleen Cleaver presents a straightforward claim of the need for government laws to administer what is being displayed on the internet. The article begins with a few realistic examples of what is possible to occur to internet users when someone obtains a free entry to their confidential information in their computers. The point she addresses mostly throughout the article is how dangerous it is for children. The example she uses to demonstrate the danger it may have on children is that a pedophile could chat with your child, disguising as a “twelve-year-old.” They may establish an “online relationship” and arrange to meet someday after school, with the intention of molesting
Jane Elliott, international famous teachers, lecturers, diversity coach, as well as the national mental health association outstanding awards winner, exposed the bias and prejudice, it is an irrational class system based on pure random factors. If you think that doesn't apply to you. ... You're in a rude awakening. In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King jr., 30 years ago, Jane Elliott designed the controversial blue eyes/brown eyes campaign. This is now famous, according to the participants' eye color, to refer to participants as inferior or outstanding, and to expose them to the experience of a few. Every person who touches on Jane Elliott's work, whether through lectures, seminars or video, has been dramatically affected.
“The Playpen Story: Some Fourth Amendment Basics and Law Enforcement Hacking” is an analytical blog post published on the Depplinks Blog section of the Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF) website by Mark Rumold. Mark Rumold is a senior staff attorney at EFF, a non-profit organization with a stated purpose of: “defend[ing] free speech online, fight[ing] illegal surveillance, advocating for users and innovators, support freedom-enhancing technologies”. This article is one of several, written by Rumold covering the FBI investigations and prosecutions connected to the child pornography hosting Tor site called “Playpen”. The author analyzes how the FBI actions during the investigation relate to the Fourth Amendment and proceeds to contrast them with the established legal precedence. The author argues how the hacking performed by the FBI are either searches or seizures and thus covered by the Fourth Amendments. He interprets the courts’ rulings on these cases and translates them into future implications for privacy. Author’s objective tone with a hint of concern indicates that this article is for readers 25 years of age or older valuing their privacy and constitutional rights. While he could have included greater detail, it would turn off his intended audience by providing superfluous information unrelated to the analysis he is conducting. Lack of case details and references to previous postings and articles shows that he is writing for
Spinello, R. A. (2011). Regulating Internet Privacy. Cyber Ethics - Morality and Law in Cyberspace. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
In the year of 2017, it is hard to find any person whose life does not revolve around their electronic devices. The Internet has changed the way people function, and become a crucial resource in schools, workplaces, and homes all over the world. There are people who feel they could not survive a day without it, and, of course, there are people who are wary of its dangers. Children are taught from a young age to tread carefully when using the Internet, and teenagers can recite lectures they have received from their parents time and time again: “Don’t talk to strangers,” “Be careful what you download,” and most importantly, “Never share your personal information online.” What most of these parents do not know, however, is that you do not have to share your personal information for it to be collected. Not only is your information collected without your consent—it can legally be used against you. Many statutes involving Internet surveillance were rudimentary and non-invasive at their creation, but on October 26th, 2001, everything changed. The Patriot Act was signed into law, just forty-five days after the horrifying terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. The USA PATRIOT Act, more commonly known as the Patriot Act, was not a single piece of legislature, but a package of amendments to preexisting laws. The most notable changes in the Patriot Act are the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1968 (ECPA),
The internet became a very popular and huge way of getting millions of different kinds of materials and information for everyday use in the later 80's early 90's. It became easy for anyone to access millions of different kinds of materials ninety nine percent of which is decent according to our governments standards and one or less percent which is considered to be material the is indecent or harmful to minors.(ABC) These facts maybe deceiving however because there are millions of internet sites so the internet may only be one percent indecent but that means there are thousands upon thousands of sites that are indecent.(ABC) The biggest question is how can we protect our children from these indecent sites? The government believed that
Imagine logging into your social media page and you find yourself among a page full of addresses that follow the residents’ names. Your name and address is the first your eyes land upon, and you’ve now realized you have been exposed. You clearly have no idea how it got there and the number of people that have seen it. Because the internet now has your personal information you are now unmasked to many harmful people, including cyberbullies, sextraffickers, and kidnappers. That now has the advanged to use physical violence and fear towards you. In October of 2017 one of the week long stings ran in Florida that targeted human trafficking and online prostitution, it ended among with the arrest of 277 people which include trusted adults like, doctors
For over two centuries American citizens have bided by the first 10 commandments in the United States Constitution, otherwise known as the Bill of Rights, for protection over their personal liberties from the United States government. These personal liberties include, but are not limited to: The freedom of religion, speech, and press, the protection of privacy, and the right to life, liberty, and property. These personal liberties protected by the government, from the government, have always been strictly enforced with no unknown territory. That is until approximately three decades ago when the Internet was created. Over the last twenty-seven years technology has been quickly advancing creating an unknown world of the Internet and
”The internet has come so far in the last several years. It is so easy to go online and pretend to be someone you aren’t; and that’s exactly what traffickers do. Some go through Facebook, Myspace, Craigslist, and many more websites. There are over 100,000 ads posted in the United States each day (Our). 70 percent of all underaged sex trafficking victims said they were sold and/or advertised online with a picture, description, and price (Our). The United States is the number one producer of child pornography in the world (Our). The problem is, with today's technology, it’s hard to put a stop to it. These sites are highly secured, but there are still ways to get around it. With the internet, traffickers have the ability to target a much greater amount of victims.
Did you check your Facebook today? How about your E-Mail? If not, you may be missing something even now! In today’s fast-paced world of instant information, if you aren’t on the internet, you’re almost certainly uninformed. Networks and the internet make up an alarmingly large part of our life. We get our news (both personal and public) via the internet, we talk to friends, shop for things, pay our bills… but how vast is the monster that does all of this? This question, along with many others, is essential in the debate that rages on today: censoring the net. There are governments, not excluding our own, who believe in to some extent controlling who can access certain websites, and which are available to the general public. The very idea
Internet privacy is an issue that has constantly taken up a portion of the world stage for many years. Legislators are even now trying to find the delicate balance between Internet privacy and Internet security. The medium of the Internet is simply too new to be completely understood by lawmakers, and it will take some time before there is a complete grasp.
Two types of laws are adopted by various countries to protect the sensitive information of individuals on the web. The first kind, comprehensive laws, are laws “that govern the collection, use and dissemination of personal information by both the public and private sectors”6. These general laws do not deal with individual areas like health care or educational systems. Instead, they establish standards for use of private information for all entities. Comprehensive laws are usually adopted for one of three reasons: to remedy past injustices, to promote electronic commerce or to ensure that laws are consistent with Pan-European laws7. In addition, comprehensive laws often require the establishment of an independent commissioner to oversee the enforcement of the law. Unfortunately, problems arise because either a lack of resources hinders