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chr2131264

BBC - Future - Why governments are broken - and how to fix them - 0 views

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ineffective government democracy personal+freedoms

shared by chr2131264 on 02 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • chr2131264 on 02 Sep 19
     
    This article touches on the inefficiencies of governments as a whole, not specifically to the United States. Suggestions on how to fix are long term, and the immediate removal is highly discouraged. Technology is changing and our government should meet the demands.
smurphy6600

The Ethics (or not) of Massive Government Surveillance - 0 views

cs.stanford.edu/...ethics.html

personal+freedoms government+ethics social+technology tech+surveillance

shared by smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • Prominent examples of surveillance include surveillance cameras, wiretaps, GPS tracking, and internet surveillance.
  • expression of control
  • profound impact with regards to the ethics of placing individual under surveillance
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  • close surveillance is much more intrusive than it has been in the past.
  • Constitution protects American citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures
  • citizens have not been given the same protection with regards to electronic surveillance
  • "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear."
    • smurphy6600
      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      This statement has an Orwellian tone to it to indicate the tone of the article to the reader as cautious, paranoid even, and fearful
  • as most people are law-abiding citizens, most ostensibly will not be targeted for surveillance and it will not impact their lives,
  • safer through the elimination of criminals.
  • the government already has the ability to track a known target's movements to a reasonable degree, and has easy access to information such as one's purchasing habits, online activities, phone conversations, and mail.
  • if the individual has been treated unfairly and procedures violated, are there appropriate means of redress? Are there means for discovering violations and penalties to encourage responsible surveillant behavior
  • allowing surreptitious surveillance of one form, even limited in scope and for a particular contingency, encourages government to expand such surveillance programs in the future
  • the danger of a "slippery slope" scenario cannot be dismissed as paranoia
  • British police are now pushing for the DNA collection of children who "exhibit behavior indicating they may become criminals in later life"
    • smurphy6600
      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      This opens a door for discriminatory profiling from government agencies and educators who report the behavior
  • M.I.T. professor Gary Marx, who argued that before implementing surveillance we should evaluate the proposed methods by asking a number of questions, which we enumerate below:
  • does the technique cross a personal boundary without permission (
  • are individuals aware that personal information is being collected, who seeks it and why?
  • consent
    • smurphy6600
      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      The issue seems to be that consumers using the technology our government tracks aren't aware of what they are consenting to due to the long and overly-articulated terms and conditions presented to them in a purposefully confusing manner in order to gain access to their data
  • human review of machine generated results
  • With the expansion of surveillance, such abuses could become more numerous and more egregious as the amount of personal data collected increases.
  • security of the data be adequately protected?
  • are the goals of the data collection legitimate?
  • In general, we feel that surveillance can be ethical, but that there have to exist reasonable, publicly accessible records and accountability for those approving and performing the surveillance in question.
  • smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
     
    The website offers links to various sources of information on the collection and distribution of surveilled data from government agencies in an attempt to inform its readers and covers the paranoia tinted tone of those who find government surveillance in todays society to be too close to "Big Brother" methods and presents an argument for their point of view through the methods of MIT professor Gary Marx. The argument is presented in a series of questions on the ethical stance of what the government surveils, what the surveillance consists of as well as the consequences of any action taken as a result of surveillance and the reality that American citizens never consented to the constant surveillance of their personal lives. The position of inclination towards complacency is concisely summed with a strong amount of surveillance being presented by the double edged statement of "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.".
mor2121575

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

personal+freedom algorithm private+governance

shared by mor2121575 on 07 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • 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.
jos2429699

https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-media-texas-social-media-c76b1dc146ede0b2f... - 0 views

apnews.com/...6b1dc146ede0b2f1bac70e6b18f39f

personal+freedoms Abortion Women's+Rights

shared by jos2429699 on 08 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • jos2429699 on 08 Sep 21
     
    Texas has put an abortion law that prevents women from getting an abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. This has led to people flooding their websites with false reports to deter their efforts in enforcing this law.
  • lynnmarie17 on 09 Sep 21
     
    I don't understand why they wanna regulate what we do with our bodies. Some people can't afford kids or are just not ready for kids and I don't think we should be ridiculed for that decision . I hope they overturn that law.
chrisfowler94

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2019 | Commonwealth Fund - 0 views

www.commonwealthfund.org/...h-care-global-perspective-2019

personal+freedoms health+care affordable+health+care u.s.

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  • chrisfowler94 on 07 Sep 21
     
    This article compares what Americans spend on health care to other high-income nations such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Compared to these countries, Americans spend nearly twice as much on health care. The article goes over the causes of this such as obesity and expensive technology as well as affects such as higher rate of death from preventable causes and less doctor visits than average.
anonymous

Phone Companies Sell Customer Information - 0 views

money.msn.com/...post.aspx

phone+companies customer msn personal+freedoms privacy privacy+act freedom+of+information+act

shared by anonymous on 02 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Jun 13
     
    This article is a MSN report about phone companies shady practices. Through legal avenues, phone companies are able to sell our personal information to outside sources without our knowledge.
Enrique Vargas

Alternatives to Employee Internet Monitoring - 0 views

humanresources.about.com/...ployee-internet-monitoring.htm

monitoring internet big+brother freedom surfing

shared by Enrique Vargas on 11 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Enrique Vargas on 11 Jun 13
     
    This article explains why companies should not completely restrict their employees from using the internet for their own personal use. Some employees use the internet at work to do quick shopping or reply to an email, and then get back to work.
Becky Hannah

Google Glass, the beginning of wearable surveillance - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...chertoff-wearable-devices

Surveillance+privacy Personal+freedom

shared by Becky Hannah on 12 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Becky Hannah on 12 Jun 13
     
    Discusses the use of new Google Project Glass that allows consumers hand free access to Internet. Pictures, Videos, face recognition, directions, emails, etc. all of this right before ones eyes. It poses the question, what will the advanced new technology do to citizens privacy??
Becky Hannah

Google Glass and Privacy: The Changing Face of Privacy - 0 views

idtheft.about.com/...Google-Glass-And-Privacy.htm

personal+freedoms breach+of+privacy

shared by Becky Hannah on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Becky Hannah on 10 Jun 13
     
    Article discusses the new age technology and how it can personally affect our privacy. Google Glass will allow consumers to have hands free access to the Internet using lens free glasses and their voice. Allows users to take pictures and videos without anyone knowing they are being videotaped.
Teresa Olivas

SOPA: Internet Piracy Bill Criticized as Internet Censorship - ABC News - 0 views

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Personal+Freedoms+Internet+law+politics

shared by Teresa Olivas on 01 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Teresa Olivas on 01 Feb 13
     
    Critics of the two Internet bills, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (protect IP Act), say the bills will eventually end in "Internet censorship". They were introduced to the Senate and House of Representatives as a way to prevent online piracy of movies, music, and other online media.
Alberto Sandoval

Your Right to Privacy - 0 views

www.aclu.org/...your-right-privacy

personal+freedoms Privacy school search

shared by Alberto Sandoval on 24 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Alberto Sandoval on 24 Jan 13
     
    It asked some common questions regarding a persons privacy. The site also offers other freedom topics in the topics below the article.
Bianca Lombardi

13 PC resellers accused of Windows piracy - 0 views

www.pcworld.com/...accused-of-windows-piracy.html

personal+freedoms china piracy

shared by Bianca Lombardi on 25 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Bianca Lombardi on 25 Jan 13
     
    In an anti-piracy campaign, Windows is taking action against those they believe are selling copies of the Windows Operating System. With China being the largest PC seller in the world, this directly affects our economy and technology distribution.
zurielgrijalva

Obama Courts Immigrants in Science, Technology and Engineering Fields - 0 views

immigration.about.com/...hanges-For-Stem-Immigrants.htm

immigrants STEM rights

shared by zurielgrijalva on 12 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • zurielgrijalva on 12 Sep 16
     
    This article talks about how changing the immigration law will benefit the U.S. when it comes to allowing highly skilled immigrants professionals to work in the United States.
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

shared by Dabriel Hand on 05 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • 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.
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

shared by bri2209985 on 25 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • 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.
Devon Feagans

Privacy on the Internet - 0 views

www.nbcnews.com/...cation-doesnt-exist-6C10962853

personal+freedoms internet privacy privacy+rights security spying email

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  • Devon Feagans on 02 Sep 13
     
    The article discusses the difficulty of achieving "perfect privacy" with internet communication tools. The shortcomings of several forms of communication in protecting privacy are described.
Austin Spicer

Facebook Privacy analyzing our photos - 0 views

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personal+freedoms Personal rights privacy

shared by Austin Spicer on 02 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Austin Spicer on 02 Sep 13
     
    Facebook uses facial recognition in tagging photos to allow your friends to tag you in their photos. This goes against our privacy and takes away our right to not have unwanted pictures posted.
Megan Nitka

How The Affordable Care Act Will Affect Doctors - 0 views

thehealthcareblog.com/...e-care-act-will-affect-doctors

personal+freedoms doctors ACA

shared by Megan Nitka on 02 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Megan Nitka on 02 Feb 14
     
    This article talks about the affect the Affordable Care Act will have on the doctors. The majority doctors believe it will have a negative effect, not just on their salaries but also the access they will have to technology for practicing medicine.
Shaun Gray

NSA: Analysts spied on love interests - 0 views

thehill.com/...alysts-spied-on-love-interests

NSA Abuse spying on love interests

shared by Shaun Gray on 07 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Shaun Gray on 07 Oct 13
     
    Article from "The Hill" documenting certain abuses admitted to by the chief of the NSA. This article gives just one example of why something like this is just too much power for humans to have.
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