When rape goes viral

After reading this article, it made me feel a lot of grief for victims and their families. For them, whether it is reported or not, and whether or not there is justice, it still becomes a lose-lose for them. The examples of stories that were in the article never had a happy ending. Once the privacy of the girls were leaked, they believed there lives were ruined and reacted based on that. Its sad how many of these girls ended up taking their own lives based on the rumors, pictures, or videos that were released. Its even more sad that most of these cases of sexual assault would have never been reported or never had action taken if it hadn't been for the privacy invasion when they posted it on social media. The fact that someone has to be pushed to the point where they feel they have no where to go is disgusting. I believe there should be new policies instated that help to reduce the number of unreported incidents and make people feel more safe about reporting these kinds of things. Also action should be made to make women more safe in dangerous environments. After reading this article most people can see that there is an issue at hand that needs to be solved as soon as possible.

Why should we care about our privacy?

Most people when it comes to privacy just try not to think about it too much. I was the same way until i actually looked into what information about us and our personal lives are being gathered. You may have nothing to hide, but that does not mean all your information should be spread across the internet. Something people don't realize is that their information is actually worth a monetary value. Most businesses use this data that is collected to help marketing and campaigning. So why should we just give it to them? There are two main gatherers when it comes to information. The first is the government and the second is businesses. Some people are probably still thinking, why should i care? But the thing is the government and businesses use this information to snoop on peoples personal lives without permission. Unlike businesses, the government is subjected to the Privacy Act of 1974 which requires that agencies give the public notice of their systems of records by publication in the Federal Register. With businesses it is a lot more scary because they are not legally bounded to release what information has been collected or even what they are doing with it. Personally i am very concerned with where are privacy is dissolving to and hope that changes are made to protect law abiding citizens from this sort of stuff.

First blog for CS-408

CS-408 is in introductory class that explores what it is like to live in a networked world, including the good, the bad, and the ugly. This course talks about all aspects of the internet including internet ethics, coding, analyzing urls, and tons of other things. It teaches us how to use the internet safely and effectively by giving us some insight of what goes on in the internet world. We talk about exciting things like hackers , and some other less interesting things like bytes. Overall this is an excellent class to take with an excellent teacher.