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Posted on 30 November 2010. The prevalence of mobile devices with personally identifiable location-based information and the increasing use of social media are top concerns for 2011. With more personal information available on the Internet, in everyday consumer applications and stored in corporate databases, risks to consumers and companies will only grow in the next year.

How the European Union (EU) decides to move forward with their online privacy laws in regard to personal information, will greatly impact how the U.S. proceeds with theirs. The "economic partnership" between the two nations are so heavily intertwined, that legislations across seas will impact U.S. companies. The EU has implemented legislations protecting the rights of online customers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., companies have been reluctant to work with the government in providing U.S. online customers the same protection, because the majority of their profits stem from online advertising. These advertisements work so well because companies have been able to track consumer activities and in turn cater to them according to their habits. Implement government regulations that prevent big companies from doing that and their profits will plummet.

This article explains how the balancing of personal freedoms works into the government and the workplace of citizens today. A big example this article touches on is how online activity can be monitored. What is really private today?

Technology is advancing faster and faster every minute and privacy is something known of the past now in my opinion. One of my teachers told the class that everything you learn about computers during your freshman and sophomore years of college will most likely be outdated by your junior year - just to help realize how fast technology is actually growing. Anything online can affect you now-a-days it seems. On the news the other day, there was a story about Facebook Friends and your credit. People are actually being denied car loans or things of that sort because of the friends they have on Facebook because if their friends seem unreliable and have bad scores, then the company will assume you do too. It's getting ridiculous to be honest.

These days employers monitor and know everything you are doing. Knowing this, I feel like if you are acting in a way that is respectable both at work and in your personal life, you will have nothing to worry about. I do not see this issue of lack of privacy changing, I see it increasing as time goes on.

This guy has some interesting ideas. Ending the war on drugs by legalizing drugs and taxing them for profit and allowing people to consume or not consume anything they choose seems a bit extreme. I do agree that a rebalance of taxes would benefit the hard working middle class families.

A really good article with a lot of good ideas. I especially liked the idea about fixing the infrastructure. I saw a special a few years ago talking about how the infrastructure was deteriorating and I can only imagine it's gotten worse.

Verizon on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

This would make a great topic for a research project.

After the overwhelming increase in cyber bullying, states are trying to figure out acceptable punishment. Protesters believe that their freedom of speech should be protected in cyber bullying and that being bullied is apart of life. The schools are trying to educate their students so the fatalities of cyber bullying can be prevented.

This article states more rules on net neutrality as well as some arguments that are occurring with net neutrality. it also states what you can do if you want to report an ISP. You can report it informally or formally: informally, you would fill out a complaint form. It is not recommended that you formally report an ISP unless you represent a large company.

You're not writing enough for your summaries.

This site mentions different rules that internet service providers must adhere to. Some said rules are: transparency, which is stationary and mobile broadband providers must let people know about their management practices and terms of conditions and unreasonable discrimination, which is fixed broadband providers cannot discriminate in transmitting network traffic that are obeying the law.

The internet in our every day lives is open and free, we can all see the same videos the same links and pages. Net neutrality is meant to keep this freedom open, where as those against net neutrality want to restrict the access we have.

This site shows some very good examples of how bad it could be if net neutrality were to not exist. Some good points in the article would be: higher prices on internet and worse customer service to name a few.

Another Net Neutrality website that has a good amount of information on this hot topic

This web page is about rioting over people's personal freedoms being abused. Britain is trying to limit violent talks over the internet.

This article talks about the increasingly popular method of self treating ones own illness in the UK. It talks about the side effects and warnings as well as the benefits of treating yourself. There is also information about how the internet helps promote self medicating.

Although we have the freedom to make choices on a daily basis, I don't think people realize how much the media influences those choices. Can we really call it a "personal freedom" when so many of our choices are based on what we see on tv or the internet? This article touches on how the media, from commercials to porn, influence the decisions we make day to day. We can learn a lot from what we see, hear or read from the media but when is it too much?

This is actually kind of funny, but it does show how easy it is for companies to spy on people. This company goes over board tracking this stolen computer. 

Technology has become a huge part of our lives. It is a little scary to think about how life would be with out the internet or cellphones. For most of us it seems easier and more fun to stay at home and surf the web, game it out, or watch movies. Paper maps are a thing of the past.

Is it important to us that our government looks at our Metadata? The government work's hard to Prove that our privacy is safe however they take liberties when it comes to private Phone Communications. The information they gather is much larger then we think.

If they "need" to look at our metadata it makes me wonder what they're doing with all our information.

In this day and age this is to be expected, the government is all about control, and when it comes to phone calls or even the internet they will do their best to control these places. Not siding with the government Im just stating their poor reasonings for doing this.

The revelations that Obama administration secretly collected phone records and accessed the internet activity of millions of Americans have raised new questions about the public's willingness to sacrifice civil liberties in the interests of national security. Since 9/11, Americans generally have valued protection from terrorism over civil liberties, yet they also have expressed concerns over government overreach and intrusions on their personal privacy.

this article shows many reasons why Americans would buy phones from safe sources to prevent backdoor. This also shows why people prefer encryption on their phones then an unsafe one. Backdoor are a common in this article explaining why authorities can use it on your phone to check your traffic.

Today's young adults, born after or around 1995, have most likely never seen a day without some form of social technology. #privacysecurity

Today's young adults, born after or around 1995, have most likely never seen a day without some form of social technology. #privacysecurity