Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Social Media and Surveillance


This article is dominantly based around online surveillance. It also speaks about how the government can access personal information from people’s online accounts. The article begins with giving the example of a school in Philadelphia with the teachers spying on the students through the installed web cams of laptops provided by the school. This introduces the idea of people being able to spy on people in the safety of their own homes by the Government. Also, this articles mentions the way technology is improving quite quickly, meaning that people’s privacy is at more risk and could lead to very essential private information being eroded.   Lastly, this article infers on Edward Snowdon, a man who freely put up private information indicating how the governments access millions of yahoo user’s information.

Personally, I am bothered about the process of tracking. This is mainly because it erodes an individual’s privacy, not giving them the facility to feel safe and freely use the web. Recently, people have been uploading their personal information and details without knowing which is deceiving and shouldn't be allowed as people aren't aware of it. Many young people tend to use the internet as therefore this hugely endangers them, as they are vulnerable and aware of such schemes so I think the concept of data mining is rather unethical. Having to accept this change could potentially be bad as there are trolls who wouldn't intentionally mean to say rude things. However this could be misinterpreted to the extent that it could cause issues. This isn't even a small price to pay

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