Elizabeth Shreve September 20, 2015 Eng 111 4-5:15 Professor Roof Paper 1 Prosecution in the Virtual World Many online gamers will pay for virtual items with real money. Some people want laws in effect for the real world to protect their rights to their belongings. Theft in the virtual world occurs quite often. In an article titled, “Should Gamers be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing?” the author Alex Weiss calls out a young teenage boy who is being prosecuted for stealing in a video game. It seems to be a legal blunder that is very straight forward, but becomes a heated debate.
Tien Nguyen Per.3 May 1, 2015 The Surveillance Used by Big Brother The surveillance in the book 1984 has many similarities to our government and society today. The government can spy on us by looking at our texts and what we doing on the internet anytime they want. They also look at us through video recording from stores and street. Police have also been found to violate our privacy as well. Advancements in technology have revolutionized the way we as a society communicate and function.
1. How does Facebook’s privacy management of users’ personal information affect the behavior of Facebook patrons? Facebook’s privacy management of users’ personal information affect the behavior of Facebook patrons by not having our personal information protected with our privacy rights. “Facebook has a powerful incentive to push people into revealing more information”. I believe that this is a powerful statement, because there have been countless times that I have logged onto my Facebook and they have had popups telling me to share my phone number and all of my personal information and in my opinion when you log onto your networking site you don’t want to share all of your personal information.
Which one is the most dangerous to you and society? Some issues with technology are finding reliable sites on the web because anyone can make a website. Also Hacking and identity theft through the internet are the most dangerous in my society. (2 pts) What is your impression of reading books on a device like the Kindle? If given the chance would you download your class textbooks to a Kindle rather than purchasing them in the bookstore?
An activist named Catharine MacKinnon contributed an amicus curiae brief to the proceedings, and has since stated that the government neglected to raise all the relevant issues in the case. She has also campaigned for laws to stop pornography. MacKinnon claims, in general, that pornography is violence. In this particular case, she argued to the court that the Baker pornography was the threat of violence. To back up her argument about his intentions, she used excerpts from his E-mail correspondence with a like-minded young man in Canada.
Sweeping the Nation In the essay “Facing the Facebook” by Michael Bugeja you will learn about problems college students are facing because of advanced technology such as Ipods, PDA’s, cell pones, and online communities. This is not only impairing students in the educational sense but in judicial sense. Michael Bugeja makes an excellent point about technology these days and how it is affecting our world negatively. In the summary below you will read about some his points and see how genuine they are. In the essay Michael Bugeja essay he points out how the use of modern technology is affecting students.
An example of social network is Facebook, where people post personal information about themselves. Often, without modifying privacy settings and making information being visible by others. However, to protect ourselves from outsiders, we can simply go to privacy setting and change the audience to family and closest friends. Hackers are “people who gain unauthorized access to computers or networks” (Williams & Sawyer, 2013, p. 359). They break into our computer for several reasons but mainly to acquire personal information for financial gain, shut down hardware, steal people’s credit information, and destroy data.
Within social media, a disgruntled employee may also use the sites to damage confidential information regarding a patient. Having guidelines will set the standard for instances like this and allow punishment to be dealt if an occurrence happens. Enforcing fines or harsher punishments will decrease the chances of a slip in personal information. In the article written by Chris Dimick (2010), it discusses the need for privacy policies and the use of social media. The article describes how policies should be drawn up, and made aware to the staffing personnel.
People have the opportunity to construct one’s identity on social networking sites such as Facebook and My space. This allows cyber bullies with the freedom of performing horrific acts and also the intention of upsetting victim. Some social networking sites such as Little Gossip encourage anonymity. This allows cyber bullies to comment anonymously about victims. People are also able to vote on the comment in terms of whether they are true or false.
Either way he tells the story of how he discovered the internet and how he could simply hide behind his digital mask and saying things he probably wouldn’t have said if he was confronted with these people in real life. Aleks also talks about how religious and racist groups use the internet to recruit members and form a virtual weapon against anyone who doesn’t agree with their beliefs. Despite Aleks Krotoski uses the tools of relation for example his opening section: “I remember the first time I logged into a chatroom. It was 1996, and I was using my mum’s AOL account to mooch around the World Wide Web, which was