5. What could you have done differently during our lobbying exercise to ensure the opposite outcome?
5. For the lobbying exercise, my role was Diane Schwier, an aggregate inspector with the ministry of natural resources. In order to change the outcome of the quarry not being built I and the other Diance Schwier could have done more advocating against the quarry. As a part of provincial government, we could have talked with other provincial government peoples about why we should vote against it. In my case, voting against the quarry did not make a lot of sense as an aggregate inspector however we could have also prepared ourselves more for opposite roles. If I went into this activity with promising side affects and downfalls for both sides, …show more content…
During Brett Gaylors DoNotTrack web series, he poses many suggestions as to what we can do in order to protect our privacy online. He explains that we all have been taken advantage of in that we are signing contracts, which allow websites to use our identity and do whatever they essentially want with it. He explains that although we are being taken advantage of, there are advantages such as security. There is no such thing as privacy without having security and that we have many opportunities to protect our identity online to a certain extent. One, being to watch what websites you’re visiting. Where do our gigabits go? What parties and trackers do we really want to be using our privacy? This can be seen in the first video of DoNotTrack where we have the ability to type in a news page and view what other websites are then tracking us and accessing our identity through cookies. We can protect your privacy online by also viewing and reading the terms of use and privacy settings. This is something that many people do not do, however would be surprised and upset at the fact that for instance, the pictures that they are posting on Facebook of their children are actually being sold and used on third party websites. And this is one hundred percent legal, as you signed the terms of use saying that anything you post on Facebook becomes there content. If we read these terms of use we would be aware of how much of our identity a website is trying to take from us. With this, we can restrict what we post and present online. Next, is to understand the hidden cost of free. We live in a time where people want everything for as cheap as possible and a way the Internet has taken advantage of this is through keeping these websites such as Facebook and Google free. In exchange, a third party is buying the data you leave behind. The last main suggestion Gaylor has for Internet users are to pay attention to what we are liking and viewing on social media. When you like or follow
5. For the lobbying exercise, my role was Diane Schwier, an aggregate inspector with the ministry of natural resources. In order to change the outcome of the quarry not being built I and the other Diance Schwier could have done more advocating against the quarry. As a part of provincial government, we could have talked with other provincial government peoples about why we should vote against it. In my case, voting against the quarry did not make a lot of sense as an aggregate inspector however we could have also prepared ourselves more for opposite roles. If I went into this activity with promising side affects and downfalls for both sides, …show more content…
During Brett Gaylors DoNotTrack web series, he poses many suggestions as to what we can do in order to protect our privacy online. He explains that we all have been taken advantage of in that we are signing contracts, which allow websites to use our identity and do whatever they essentially want with it. He explains that although we are being taken advantage of, there are advantages such as security. There is no such thing as privacy without having security and that we have many opportunities to protect our identity online to a certain extent. One, being to watch what websites you’re visiting. Where do our gigabits go? What parties and trackers do we really want to be using our privacy? This can be seen in the first video of DoNotTrack where we have the ability to type in a news page and view what other websites are then tracking us and accessing our identity through cookies. We can protect your privacy online by also viewing and reading the terms of use and privacy settings. This is something that many people do not do, however would be surprised and upset at the fact that for instance, the pictures that they are posting on Facebook of their children are actually being sold and used on third party websites. And this is one hundred percent legal, as you signed the terms of use saying that anything you post on Facebook becomes there content. If we read these terms of use we would be aware of how much of our identity a website is trying to take from us. With this, we can restrict what we post and present online. Next, is to understand the hidden cost of free. We live in a time where people want everything for as cheap as possible and a way the Internet has taken advantage of this is through keeping these websites such as Facebook and Google free. In exchange, a third party is buying the data you leave behind. The last main suggestion Gaylor has for Internet users are to pay attention to what we are liking and viewing on social media. When you like or follow