Freedom of information

Solove argues, while technologies are constantly changing, human nature remains steadfast. The law must meet the challenge to address these ever-changing technologies’ effect on one’s reputation and strive to protect the privacy while ensuring the freedom of speech. Consider the case of a twenty-three-year-old Yale student who desired to be an investment banker. The ambitious man named Aleksey took an unorthodox route to secure employment with global financial giant UBS. Along with his rather a

early stages Arpanet could only be seen at military bases and a few college campuses. As time went on many private companies began to show interest in the internet as its popularity was steadily growing. The number of host computers which store information and relay communications to internet users went from 23 hosts in 1971 to 10 million hosts in 1996. Today approximately 200 million people in over 150 countries are connected to the internet. As a new generation grows up as accustomed to communicating

Freedom of speech facilitated by the internet. The Internet challenges the privilege to an opportunity of expression. From one viewpoint, the Internet engages flexibility of expression by giving people new methods for expressions. Then again, the free stream of data has raised the call for content control, not the minimum to limit minors' entrance to conceivably unsafe data. This split has prompted lawful endeavors to direct substance and to new self-regulatory plans actualized by private gatherings

books or encyclopedias to find the information that you want? Some of you may be thinking “Yes, thank god for google!” and others may be thinking “Oh, the horror! I can’t imagine surviving without it!”. But there are the few that reminisce about the time when you couldn’t find whatever information you were looking for in a matter of minutes. Unlike many, Tim Kreider looks back on the times before the internet with fondness, and thinks that our easy access to information has had some negative side effects

where every-day physical objects are connected to the Internet and are able to identify themselves to other devices. It is an integrated relationship between generic objects and the virtual world in which both can communicate and exchange data and information. It keeps the objects interconnected, which can be identified by some assigned codes, names, locations, shapes or addresses. Internet of things describes a world where just about anything can be connected or communicated in an intelligent fashion

With advancements in technology, some students have chosen to complete their schoolwork through the Internet, rather than in traditional classrooms. Those who support a traditional classroom approach to learning argue that it provides more of an opportunity for students to interact with the teacher and other students. Those who feel that learning over the Internet is better argue that it allows students to learn anytime and anywhere they choose. Do you feel education is better provided in traditional

Censorship the Freedom of the Internet? The government controls much of what we can and can’t do, and also how and when we do it. For instance “taxes”, we all have to pay a certain amount to the government on a specific day where the IRS and their officials can determine how much we have to pay. The state control our cars through smog checks and how fast we can drive on the roads through tickets and fines. When the government has all of this control over us, should we give them more power? A power

whether it should be regulated. Within the First Amendment of the Constitution there is freedom of speech, but should that freedom of speech be allowed on the internet? For all American’s, the freedom of speech has always been cherished. Individual’s think that when they are online they can say, be or do anything that they want and there will not be any consequences, but that is a problem because that freedom of speech can be extremely hurtful or even dangerous. Individual’s use the internet these

any links to the site and GoDaddy revoked the website domain name. Richard Spencer, a famous white supremacist, believes only the hands of the government can actually intervene with an issue of this scale. Jillian York, director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation feels that the morality of preventing certain people from having a platform should not be discussed at the moment, and on the contrary, there should be a conversation on “who gets to decide that

LEGAL PROPOSITION ON THE PUBLIC FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OF INDONESIA By: Adistra Kusuma Waligalit, Faculty of Law of Gadjah Mada University This study identified several Legal defects regarding the Act on Public Freedom of Information of Indonesia. These legal defects will be explained along with the reccomendations of remedy as below. INTRODUCTION After experiencing a difficult time in New Order era (1966-1998), when the civil rights to freely obtain information had been abused by the government