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alyssastevie

Government's monitoring of social media raises privacy concerns - 1 views

dailycaller.com/...-media-raises-privacy-concerns

personal+freedoms government social media privacy

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  • alyssastevie on 06 Jun 13
     
    Another article about online government monitoring. The government monitors many social medias and is very concerning.
emi2191825

Pandemic takes toll on school-sick students' motivation - 0 views

www.aa.com.tr/...2085834

personal+freedom lack motivation onlinelearning pandemic students

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  • emi2191825 on 02 Feb 21
     
    The lack of student motivation has become a bigger problem during the pandemic. The online courses have affected students as they are unable to get the same face-to-face classes. The curriculum seems harder for students at home to keep up with.
mor2121575

Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society_ Big Data Private Governa.pdf - 0 views

personal+freedom algorithm private+governance

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  • The problems of free speech in any era are shaped by the communications technology available for people to use and by the ways that people actually use that technology.
  • The First Amendment, I argued, would prove increasingly inadequate to this task;5 moreover, if courts interpreted the Constitution in a short-sighted manner, judge-made doctrines of the First Amendment would actually hinder the protection and development of a truly democratic culture. 6
  • To be sure, digital companies would often find themselves on the side of the values of a democratic culture. But just as often they would seek constitutional protection for novel forms of surveillance and control of individuals and groups. 9
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  • The Algorithmic Society features the collection of vast amounts of data about individuals and facilitates new forms of surveillance, control, discrimination and manipulation, both by governments and by private companies. Call this the problem of Big Data. 10
  • In the digital age, individuals do not face the familiar dyadic model of speech regulation. In a dyadic model, there are two central actors: the power of the state threatens the individual's right to speak.
  • In the pluralist model individuals may be controlled, censored, and surveilled both by the nation state and by the owners of many different kinds of private infrastructure
  • In this world, the judge-made doctrines of the First Amendment, although still necessary, are inadequate to provide sufficient guarantees of free expression.
  • The Algorithmic Society depends on huge databases that can cheaply and easily be collected, collated, and analyzed.
  • New forms of wealth emerge in the Digital Age just as they did in the Industrial Revolution. Four especially important forms of wealth in the Information Age are intellectual property, fame, information security, and Big Data.
  • We should make a key distinction between distributed and democratic power. A form of power is democratic if many people participate in it and participate in decisionmaking about how to
  • employ it. A form of power is distributed if it operates in many different places and affects many different people and situations. In some ways the Internet and its associated digital technologies have made power more democratic. But in other ways the Internet has made it possible for power to be widely distributed but not democratic.
  • We tend to associate power with the effects of technology itself. But technology is actually a way of exemplifying and constituting relationships of power between one set of human beings and another set of human beings. This was true even of the technology of writing, which, Claude Levi-Strauss famously asserted, was used to organize the labor of slaves. 20 It is true today in the development of decisionmaking by algorithms and Al agents.
  • the Algorithmic Age is a struggle over the collection, transmission, use, and analysis of data. For this reason, the central constitutional questions do not concern freedom of contract. They concern freedom of expression.
  • The most important question is not whether robots have First Amendment rights; it is whether companies will be able to shield themselves from regulation by claiming that their uses of Al agents, robots, and algorithms are First Amendment protected activities.
  • Two key ideas help us understand when the First Amendment permits legal regulation of the people and organizations that use Big Data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. The first is the concept of information fiduciaries. The second is the concept of algorithmic nuisance.
  • Governments can impose reasonable regulations on how information fiduciaries collect, use, distribute, and sell information derived from their fiduciary relationships with end-users.
  • Fiduciary relationships involve asymmetries of power, information, and transparency. 2 7
  • Although these businesses use data and share data, the First Amendment does not prevent regulation of how they make and implement their decisions. That is because permissible regulation aims at the outputs of algorithmic decisionmaking: discrimination and manipulation.4 1
  • This means that many of the digital organizations that people deal with every day - including Internet service providers ("ISPs"), search engines, and social media platforms - should be treated as information fiduciaries with respect to their clients and end-users. Therefore, consistent with the First Amendment, governments can subject the information fiduciary to reasonable restrictions on collection, collation, analysis, use, sale, and distribution of personal information.
  • his is the idea of algorithmic nuisance. The concept of algorithmic nuisance applies when companies use Big Data and algorithms to make judgments that construct people's identities, traits, and associations that affect people's opportunities and vulnerabilities.
  • The classic examples of information fiduciaries are doctors and lawyers. 2 9 Both collect lots of personal information about their clients, their operations are not transparent to relatively untrained clients, and clients' ability to monitor professionals is limited by their lack of training.
  • Businesses use algorithms and ratings systems derived from algorithms to make decisions about who gets what opportunity - credit, a job, or entrance to and exclusion from any number of different benefits. In order to make these decisions, businesses increasingly rely on Big Data and algorithms, because so many decisions have to be made and it is too costly to engage in individualized decisionmaking. 47
  • The idea behind algorithmic nuisance is that algorithmic decisionmaking has cumulative side effects on populations as more and more public and private businesses adopt it.49 Algorithms construct people's identities and reputations by classifying them as risky,
  • To deal with this new organization of consumer products and services, we need the concepts of information fiduciary and algorithmic nuisance. Home robots and smart appliances collect an enormous amount of information about us which, in theory, can be collated with information about many other people that is stored in the cloud. Home robots and smart appliances are always-on, interconnected cloud entities that rely on and contribute to huge databases.
  • The second set of issues is symbolized by the ideas of "the right to forget" and "fake news." These two issues may seem unrelated. In fact, they are about the same issue: a fundamental change in how freedom of speech is regulated in the digital era. This alteration in governance has two key elements. The first is a change in how governments regulate - or attempt to regulate - speech in the digital era, from "old school" to "new school" speech regulation. The second is that privately owned online platforms engage in private governance of speech.
  • Both the creation of a right to forget and recent calls for a solution to the problem of fake news are examples of a larger phenomenon: the emergence of a new form of government speech regulation.
  • Nation states have not abandoned old school speech regulation. But they have increasingly moved to new school speech regulation because online speech is hard to govern. Speakers may be judgment proof, anonymous, and located outside the country, and they may not be human at all, but an army of bots. By contrast, owners of infrastructure are usually large for-profit enterprises, they are readily identifiable, and they have assets and do business within nation states
  • The first key feature of new school speech regulation is collateral censorship. Collateral censorship occurs when the state aims at A in order to control B's speech. 6
  • Problems of collateral censorship occur whenever governments adopt intermediary liability rules. 7 0
  • A key problem of administrative prior restraint is that it involves informal or bureaucratic censorship. 7 2
  • In a system of prior restraints, by contrast, the effects of the burden of action are flipped. The speaker may not speak unless he or she gets prior permission; until the bureaucrat or employee gets around to giving permission, the speech is forbidden.
  • Because of the dangers of collateral censorship, some governments, like the United States, provide for varying degrees of intermediary immunity. 7 7 Intermediary immunity rules relieve collateral censorship by holding the infrastructure owner harmless for content that is stored on their sites, or moves through their channels, when certain conditions are met.
  • A second key feature of new school speech regulation is public/ private cooperation and cooptation. 8 1 Governments aim at infrastructure providers in order to get them to censor or regulate the speech of people that governments cannot easily otherwise control. New school speech regulation seeks to coax the infrastructure provider into helping the state in various ways.
  • The relationship between nation states and infrastructure providers varies along a spectrum. It ranges from direct regulation, to threats, to suggestions that things will go better for infrastructure operators if they cooperate, to negotiations over the terms of cooperation.
  • mor2121575 on 07 Sep 21
     
    A research paper by Jack Balkin on the rise of algorithms within society, repercussions of these algorithms being used by large businesses, and the scope of relationships between Big Data, private consumers, and national governmental bodies. Primarily, this paper looks at the increasing interconnection of these relationships, how they've changed in the years since the internet and algorithms have been introduced, and how the First Amendment may no longer be enough in this new online space.
alyssa_penuelas

What Are Social Justice Issues? | Maryville Online - 3 views

online.maryville.edu/...what-are-social-justice-issues

rights personal+freedom freedom+of+choice

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  • alyssa_penuelas on 03 Feb 21
     
    This article talks about how everyone deserves to have the same equal rights. There are many different types of social justice from climate change to affordable healthcare.
  • ciarareyes on 04 Feb 21
     
    So glad I wasn't the only one who looked up a foundation article!
fra2224486

Social Issues in Healthcare | Maryville Online - 1 views

online.maryville.edu/...social-issues-in-healthcare

Health care Class Policies

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  • fra2224486 on 13 Sep 21
     
    This article talks about how healthcare is accessible to class, religion, gender, race and ethnicity. They explain how healthcare is a social determinant of health.
Whitney Morgan

Will we care about internet privacy in 20 years? - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...privacy-outdated-digital-age

Person freedom+ Online+ Privacy

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  • Whitney Morgan on 03 Jun 13
     
    CNN describes how Facebook abuses our privacy to make money. They seem to question if people can just disregard their privacy and move on to the next big thing.
Tyler Kendall

Reporter targeted by FBI, accused of being a spy - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...news-corp-vs-fox-news.html

Conspirators NorthKorea Personal+Freedoms

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  • Tyler Kendall on 03 Jun 13
     
    James Rosen, a fox news reporter got his hand on classified information about a source in North Korea. Government is now taking his and Fox News' phone records and such.
Elizabeth Pebbles

Second Amendment Foundation Online - 0 views

www.saf.org/

personal+freedoms gun control Second+Amendment Constitution safety

shared by Elizabeth Pebbles on 25 Jan 13 - Cached
  • Ryan Brooks on 25 Jan 13
     
    The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is dedicated to promoting a better understanding about our constitutional heritage to privately own and posess firearms. The SAF maintains several educational and legal action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun control debate.
  • Elizabeth Pebbles on 27 Jan 13
     
    This site is based on educating and promoting programs to inform the public about gun control. There are resources that even list states Right to Bear Arms provisions.
Dabriel Hand

10 Reasons the U.S. Education System Is Failing - 0 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ucation_system_is_failing.html

American education parents schools technology teachers k-12 college personal+freedoms

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  • Dabriel Hand on 05 Sep 16
     
    Editorial Project in Education of Education Week is a quality source for Americas educational awareness that uses it's articles, blogs, online chats "24/7" to help advance the quality of education in America. This article in particular explains what the ten most major educational issues are and the reasons they are contributing to a failing educational system in America.
  • nat2036759 on 07 Sep 16
     
    I like this article, even though it does show us why the education system is failing drastically apparently we don't know how to fix it. In my opinion I feel like we should maybe look into other education systems that other countries have that have a strong education system and start going off that. I feel like this could be a god topic to have for a research paper, I will most definitively look into that more.
luminitaparavat

Women - Oxford Islamic Studies Online - 0 views

www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/...e370

women rights Islam culture

shared by luminitaparavat on 28 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • luminitaparavat on 28 Jan 17
     
    The role of women in the Islamic Culture, an overview from the historical point of view. How the historical and political changes along the years influenced the view on women's rights.
bri2209985

We need an education system that excites children - 1 views

www.teachingtimes.com/...evolution-education-system.htm

Children freedom+of+choice personal education life young adults

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  • bri2209985 on 25 Jan 17
     
    The article talks about how the educational system need to be more then just math, english, and science but also teach children active life skills and young adults life skills for the future career they may want in the future, teaching that the SAT's isn't the best approach for testing, very well written article that I enjoyed reading.
  • luminitaparavat on 28 Jan 17
     
    On this topic, so many things to say. I have to admit here the educational system is very different than other countries. What really surprised me, was that the classes like history, biology, chemistry, geography..are optional. I really don't understand how you expect a child to learn and get some general knowledge, if these classes are optional. It is most likely that the child would chose none or one maybe, and then we think oh, the child can learn from internet or TV. But, the child would rather play a game online or watch a movie. The educational system needs readjustment and the curriculum changed in some classes where you have only dry material to study. We live in a society where technology is everywhere in all forms, we should take advantage of that, and create something more attractive to kids with the purpose of learning, almost like a game. I am sure that will attract children, and it will even encourage competition among them. For example, some of the educational apps, we see on all devices.
kat2222004

5 Challenges of Mental Health Care Today - 5 views

counseling.online.wfu.edu/...es-of-mental-health-care-today

health personal+freedoms mental+illness

shared by kat2222004 on 26 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • kat2222004 on 26 Jan 17
     
    Even though mental illness is a common problem it's handled very poorly. People with mental illness struggle to get help for a variety of reasons. They lack the money to pay for therapy and the support they need.
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  • ari215 on 27 Jan 17
     
    I agree, mental health care is very important and sadly is not always easy to get. Mental health needs more funding and more awareness. Being stable mentally is just as important as getting your yearly doctor's exam. I view mental illness's such as depression, anxiety and so on to be just as important to treat as any physical sickness or injury that requires medical attention.
  • sldaly on 27 Jan 17
     
    I also agree that mental healthcare is very poor and not getting the attention it deserves. I have someone really close to me that has mental illness and they don't get all the proper things that they need to deal with it because of money.
  • dan2084143 on 27 Jan 17
     
    As someone who has struggled with mental illness most of my entire life I know all too well the challenges that mental health faces in our country. It might help you to look at the Reagan administration and their decisions to close several mental health hospitals and programs in the late 80's. This had a huge impact on how mental health was dealt with in this country.
  • luminitaparavat on 28 Jan 17
     
    Being someone that has worked for a number of years with mentally disabled patients, I have to say that there is a lot of indifference toward this medical condition. Patients are not always receiving the best treatment option, they rather receive what is convenient for the health care provider or sometimes the cheapest alternative because family does not want to pay for treatment, whether it is a therapy or medication. It is very unfortunate that these people are ignored just because they have an ilness.
  • monique102 on 28 Jan 17
     
    I work with a variety of patients and some do have mental disabilities. Most don't seek help because they have the lack of knowledge and don't know where to start. Also like the article states they don't have the support or don't want to spend the money. A lot of people who don't get the correct help they need then tend to become suicidal. Very sad.
  • aus2127741 on 29 Jan 17
     
    Mental health definitely needs funding. A lack of funding will result in higher poverty and an increased suicide rate among the disabled. Not too long ago the mentally ill were put in asylums. Being someone who has Asperger's Syndrome I have experienced shutdowns and anxiety. At my last college I was unofficially withdrawn. When I have anxiety I often cannot leave my bedroom and school has become very difficult.
  • che2146091 on 29 Jan 17
     
    The main reason many do not seek professional help is not due to money, but the stigma that society places on someone with mental illness. Suffering in silence is a common way to handle the disease. Many also self medicate with alcohol and drugs. There is free help out there, just have to look for it. Catholic Family Services and Christian Church groups are there to those who ask for the help. The first step is to ask.
Roxanna Dewey

Privacy Lost: Does anybody care? - 8 views

books.google.com/books

technology_privacy

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  • Roxanna Dewey on 09 Jan 13
     
    Is the loss of civil liberties worth the convenience of technology?
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  • ktfaithtom on 05 Sep 16
     
    This is such a compelling question, isn't it? We all rely on technology to make our lives "easier." But what price do we pay? We have now had to start worrying about new things such as what our online presence tells current and future employers.
  • christiana333 on 05 Sep 16
     
    So far it does seem to be worth it but it could a whole different feeling in the future. The only effect I see is annoying ads that mysteriously relate to what I have searched for in Safari. I'm a little bit scared of what someone with ill intentions could do with all my information collected by technology.
  • luminitaparavat on 28 Jan 17
     
    Very controversial. We like the commodity of using the technology, how easy it is for us to do almost anything, but then we ask ourselves, and I think everyone here, is it safe. Is my information safe, secure. what if someone, somewhere, decides to play and steals my information. It is scary. And, how can I protect myself and be 100% sure that nothing happens. As christiana333 mentioned, everything that we search, shows up as advertisement in whatever page we open. We have now the smart phones, cute ones and lots of apps that help us in many ways, but do we really need them? Or, should we just keep the basic functions of a phone and nothing else, because really what we need is a phone to communicate?
  • monique102 on 28 Jan 17
     
    Technology just makes our lives so much easier. Like ktfaithtom mentioned, but what price do we pay or will we pay? I use my phone for pretty much anything and I always think what if someone does steal my information? As a mother I worry about my childrens privacy as well. What are the right steps to making sure our information is secured correctly?
  • smagenot on 29 Jan 17
     
    It's an interesting article and topic. It makes one wonder if we have really gone so far down the proverbial rabbit hole with technology that the levels of privacy we once enjoyed are now lost to us forever.
  • che2146091 on 29 Jan 17
     
    Have you ever wondered how grocery stores know just what coupons to mail you. Stores like Fry's use our membership number to gather information to determine our spending habits. Everything about our lives is stored in some computer somewhere. Three times last year I received a notice from a two major stores and one hospital that my information may have been stolen by an employee. Wow, we are not even safe at the hospital. I used to call my boy the conspiracy squad. After reading this article, may be I should have been listening to them.
  • cheyennehorne on 29 Jan 17
     
    Technology has and will always be a huge part of my life. Having grown up with a brother heavily into gaming, programming, and IT work I got to see first hand the in's and out's of how the web works. It all comes down to how you manage your own security. Of course, there will always be the paranoia of being monitored but that has been happening for a long time. It all comes down to being cautious with what you do alone and or over technologies.
  • albertskarsten on 29 Jan 17
     
    This book captures the many facets of information gathering by digital dossiers. It reminded me of the recent unveiled programs called Tempora and Prism used by the United Kingdom and NSA. The extent of these programs capacity to siphon user data iset deeply guarded and not known in detail, however the dossiers gathered by our internet traffic on an individual basis should alarm users. I belive privacy is priceless, if I told my grandfather who passed in 2006 the extent we divulge our personal information on social media he would probably find it unbelievable. He was born in 1920 became an officer in the United States Air Force and served in WW2. The idea of privacy has changed with each generation. The way we perceive the handheld devices we all carry as young as the age of 5, may seem to our greatest generation who is currently exiting our society as a mere tracking device for big brother. This reading was very informative.
Devon Feagans

Khan Academy Could Change Education - 0 views

guardianlv.com/...academy-could-change-education

personal+freedoms free+education school Khan+Academy alternative+learning

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  • Devon Feagans on 02 Sep 13
     
    This article reports testing of a new system of teaching by the Khan Academy, a provider of free online teaching videos. It is currently being tested in a group of schools in San Francisco. Once more information on results is gathered, the new system may become an effective tool to reach more children that struggle with learning.
anonymous

Ban on Smoking | Debate.org - 0 views

www.debate.org/...quality-of-life-for-the-public

personal+freedoms ban smoking public spaces debate

shared by anonymous on 30 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Aug 13
     
    This website is an online community where people can read debates on current issues. They can also create and participate in debates. This particular web page contains many reasons why people think that banning smoking in public places is good or not.
anonymous

Religious Freedom Is About More Than Religion - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...4783204578624510558738282.html

religious freedom and more personal+freedoms

shared by anonymous on 02 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Sep 13
     
    People agree to respect each other's freedom in order to avoid religiously motivated strife. We humans reflect on our condition and inquire into the origins of the cosmos and the meaning of our lives
anthonshep

Cyber bullying - 1 views

www.cnn.com/...rbullying-online-bully-victims

personal+freedoms control Personal Freedom+of+choice

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  • anthonshep on 02 Sep 13
     
    This article talks about cyber bullying and how kids face it on a daily basis
Austin Spicer

Gun control by the Obama Administration - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...3324904579042793499670358.html

personal+freedoms gun control freedom government rights

shared by Austin Spicer on 02 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Austin Spicer on 02 Sep 13
     
    President Obama is passing that there be a law that only allows two gun sales of military import. Stricter background checks to ensure that the gun is being used for non violence. His approach is to decrease gun violence.
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