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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.
Sasha Ross

228: The future of privacy. Surveillance society. Mobile security. Genome identificatio... - 0 views

  • Kevin Haggerty, professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Alberta, on surveillance and security.
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    This website has 6 great radio clips that you can listen to, all relating to the topics of privacy and surveillance.  The clip of Kevin Haggerty talking about Surveillance Society I found to be particularly helpful and interesting! 
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.
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.
Sasha Ross

The Surveillance Society | TIME.com - 0 views

  • Privacy is mostly an illusion. A useful illusion, no question about it, one that allows us to live without being paralyzed by self-consciousness.
  • Like children of a certain age who think closing their eyes will make them invisible, we assume that no one sees or hears our private moments, and we’re right—until someone watches or listens.
  • The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by secrets that would not stay hidden and made a masterpiece, Rear Window, from the premise that entire lives (and deaths) are on display behind the uncovered windows of anonymous cities, just waiting for a watcher to decrypt them
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  • But the revelation of the NSA’s vast data-collection programs by a crusading contract worker, Edward Snowden, has made it clear that the rise of technology is shattering even the illusion of privacy.
  • And at the same time, ever more sophisticated computer algorithms make it possible to sift through and analyze larger and larger slices of that data, raising social and ethical dilemmas that cannot be ignored
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    This is another very interesting article on the surveillance society.  I really enjoyed this article because it includes many lines that are relatable to everyone and that also help in understanding the issue. This article is very easy to understand and gives a bunch of interesting examples on surveillance and society.
Karen Espinola

50 Disney Movies Based On The Public Domain - Forbes - 0 views

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    This contains a list of Disney movies that have used plots from movies, songs, and books in the public domain. This makes me question how many other movies outside of Disney have followed suit in taking ideas from public domain. Is there actually any original inventive ideas?
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.
Karen Espinola

Spain to force search engines to pay to display some content | News | Tech | Toronto Sun - 0 views

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    This is describing the new intellectual property law Spain is enforcing in order to receive money from search engines such as Google for providing results of content that is copyrighted. Spain are one of many European countries implementing laws such as this one.
Karen Espinola

Pirate Party's James Wilson aims to lead party nationally - New Brunswick - CBC News - 0 views

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    Canada has a political party called the Pirate Party which has existed since 2009, in which exists to attempt and loosen the laws regarding copyright and the movement of content. 
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