Week 11

1. The critics that I got were mainly on visuals. My rough draft is mainly about topics that will have my voice recording explaining the topics as well as why each one is important. The thing they suggested was to add visuals such as pictures. It was also mentioned that a video explaining about copyright in some situations would also be good.

2. I already have a video in mind for explaining how copyrights work on Youtube as well as post some articles of copyright video removal on youtube. Screenshots that say the video is unvailable.

Week 10

Section 1

The article is mainly talking about how police use social media as a data mine. They first need to get probable cause to use some methods but the methods can be used such as using an automated program to search your personal history on the internet. It then gives an example of how police have been using this new information. When two boys of color were part of a crew and got out of it after a first offense they were tried again of different charges based on nothing more than conflicting eye witness accounts and Facebook likes and photos of who they hang out with. It goes on to describe how programs designed for commercials are now used to predict social cues as well as how geotagging is being used to track people who make the post.

Section 2

Now I am all for the police getting new technology to improve their jobs and in turn improve public order. Recently in non-lethal weapon development, an attachment to a gun would launch a small iron ball projectile at a subject that has resisted a taser or pepper spray was being developed. The officers were trained in how to use it throughout the development process. That said the officers need to understand two things with this technology and that is the lingo that people use in areas as well as how to interpret what is said on social media. To use the information a guide and to watch the area of the suspect closely before acting. Any information on the internet is free to gain nowadays and I see it is fine for the police to look at what people comment on and what sites they visit. 

Week 8 post

Level 1
The article talks about how Facebook sells its users information. It talks more on how this works economically as well as citing many different sources and people that say the same thing. It also shows the information in political views as well. The article says that Facebook sells its information to advertisement companies. These companies then take that information and send targeted advertising directly to the person. Facebook does this by recording every piece of data the user sends out. That includes posts, friends, and status updates as well as how frequent Facebook is accessed. Politically the article talks about how privacy is judged on Facebook. For socialism the rights of the workers, in this case, the users should be protected and for capitalism, the rights of the producers should be protected.

Level 2
In my opinion, the internet nowadays is a database that once you put something out there it is going to be out there forever. Facebook helps this along with its CEO saying that the goal of the site is to make the world more open. Facebook is used by most as a means to communicate with others on the internet but companies use the information that users send out to send advertisement targeted at the individual level. Truthfully Facebook does not need to send this information to anyone. A lot of people online post how to contact each other online and companies can just look at posts that people send on their own. Facebook is not the problem. It is what people define privacy on the internet that is the problem.