Computer Privacy Rights
Part 1: Previewing My Data
Reflection Question: How safe do you think your Internet, Social Media, and Email accounts are? How much information do you think you have about yourself in the Interwebs? Explain your reasoning.
Part 2: Your Internet Profile
Make sure you are logged out of any accounts that are opened OR open another Internet Browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome). Go to Google or another search engine (Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr), and type in your name (First and Last) and press enter. Answer the following questions:
Reflection Questions:
Reflection Question: How safe do you think your Internet, Social Media, and Email accounts are? How much information do you think you have about yourself in the Interwebs? Explain your reasoning.
Part 2: Your Internet Profile
Make sure you are logged out of any accounts that are opened OR open another Internet Browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome). Go to Google or another search engine (Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr), and type in your name (First and Last) and press enter. Answer the following questions:
Reflection Questions:
- What pictures, website links, and other information are you able to find about yourself?
- Try another search engine. Is there different information that appears?
- Roughly how many links did you click through while exploring your digital footprint? Which website provided you with the most surprising information about yourself? Why was it so surprising or interesting?
Part 3: Filter Bubbles
Directions: Watch the video below, and answer the following reflection question in your journal.
In his talk Eli Pariser says “I think we really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.”
As you watch the video, think about his description of web companies and how they strive to tailor their services, including news and search results, to your personal tastes and interests.
Reflection Question: Provide an example where you or someone you know has experienced this personalization or “filter bubble” Pariser describes.Why do you think companies tailor or filter their results to fit their view of what individual interests and needs are?
Directions: Watch the video below, and answer the following reflection question in your journal.
In his talk Eli Pariser says “I think we really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.”
As you watch the video, think about his description of web companies and how they strive to tailor their services, including news and search results, to your personal tastes and interests.
Reflection Question: Provide an example where you or someone you know has experienced this personalization or “filter bubble” Pariser describes.Why do you think companies tailor or filter their results to fit their view of what individual interests and needs are?
Part 4: The Internet in Real Life
Directions: Create a new Google Doc in your ECS folder, and rename it YourName(s).RealLife. Then, choose a scenario from the list below, and answer the following questions. You may need to conduct some research to find supporting evidence for your answers.
Scenarios:
#1 - Someone is in the process of being hired by the FBI. In their background checks, the FBI human resources division found the person's Facebook page. They are not willing to hire the person, because they have many Facebook friends who are posting "Legalize Marijuana" postings on the person's wall.
#2 - An 18 year-old boy is charged with distributing child pornography, because he used his cell phone to send naked images of his 17 year-old ex-girlfriend to his friends.
#3 - A boss sees an employee who called in "sick" in Facebook picture that someone posted. In this picture, the employee is partying the night before. The boss fires the employee the next day.
Questions:
- Privacy
- Safety
- Globablization
- Connectivity (keeping in touch with people)
- Permanence of Historical Information
Discuss how the availability of data has had both a positive and negative impact on two of the above Categories of SocialChange. How can we maintain a positive impact? How can we minimize consequences if there is a negative impact?
Directions: Create a new Google Doc in your ECS folder, and rename it YourName(s).RealLife. Then, choose a scenario from the list below, and answer the following questions. You may need to conduct some research to find supporting evidence for your answers.
Scenarios:
#1 - Someone is in the process of being hired by the FBI. In their background checks, the FBI human resources division found the person's Facebook page. They are not willing to hire the person, because they have many Facebook friends who are posting "Legalize Marijuana" postings on the person's wall.
#2 - An 18 year-old boy is charged with distributing child pornography, because he used his cell phone to send naked images of his 17 year-old ex-girlfriend to his friends.
#3 - A boss sees an employee who called in "sick" in Facebook picture that someone posted. In this picture, the employee is partying the night before. The boss fires the employee the next day.
Questions:
- In the scenario, did the people have the right to use the information they did or should it have been private? Why?
- Are the people who were affected by the use of this information at fault? Why or why not?
- Think about what data you've made available in different online sources and physical places (Facebook, Twitter, Texting, Netflix, Mall, Deli, etc.). What might other people think about who you are based on these data? Is it an accurate impression or representation of who you are?
- Consider each of the following categories of societal change:
- Privacy
- Safety
- Globablization
- Connectivity (keeping in touch with people)
- Permanence of Historical Information
Discuss how the availability of data has had both a positive and negative impact on two of the above Categories of SocialChange. How can we maintain a positive impact? How can we minimize consequences if there is a negative impact?