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Jacob Nemirov

Santa Clara University - Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm? - 0 views

  • In addressing issues such as the balance of power between individuals and the state, weighing the benefits and harms that result from a particular privacy-related practice, or considering whether privacy is a right that must be respected, you are engaging in a process of ethical analysis.
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      This debate is one that we must have and is very relevant today. 
  • the need for space in which to play and to try out new ideas, identities, and behaviors, without lasting consequences
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      An interesting take on privacy. The internet is an inherently public space though so is there a place for privacy online and if so how can the proper balance be achieved?
  • Increasingly, governments, corporations, and other entities are collecting information about you that you willingly or unknowingly give out online.
Jacob Nemirov

A Movie about the Death of Privacy in the Internet Age - 0 views

  • Sell your information to the highest bidder
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      An interesting way to look at this: We provide our personal data to companies for free just by visiting their sites and they profit off of it. We are essentially slave labourers and we don't even mind.
  • Track everything you do on the Internet
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      with cookies.
  • Anything you do or write on the site is the property of the site – forever
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      i.e. data retention.
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    This article clearly points out the three most troublesome aspects of using the internet and social media today.
Jacob Nemirov

Facebook, Google and the death of online privacy [Infographic] | memeburn - 0 views

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      I found this Infographic was very good at explaining some of the most common issues we face with online privacy today. I was also unaware that Facebook and Google must comply with audits for 20 years. It is shocking to me and highlights the seriousness of the situation in my opinion of how our privacy and data have been compromised.
Jacob Nemirov

NameTag Uses Facial Recognition to End Privacy As We Know It - 0 views

  • NameTag uses facial recognition technology that will allow you to take a snapshot of the person you forgot
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      and compare it to online data to give you a profile of the person.
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    I found this article to be very disturbing but hopefully people will realize the clear negative aspects of this and never widely adopt this. In my opinion this prospective technology is very dangerous.
Karen Espinola

Who Owns This Image? : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    This article is about the intellectual property law regarding the visual arts where a French photographer is claiming copyright infringement because of another artist's manipulation of the original piece without breaking any intellectual property laws. The exemption of transformative nature allowed for the modification of pieces just as mashups find the loophole in the copyright law.
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