Geolocation

Advertisements, or ads, on a webpage are affected by who’s viewing it and other content on the page, causing ads to be tailored to users. For example, someone who has searched for sports gear (or is viewing a sports article) would see ads relevant to sports. Third Party Ad servers are used so that each individual web domain host can focus on the actual content of their page instead of the ads to be displayed. Google can manage and track the performance of advertisers on their site. Publishers…

Critical reflection – Reviewing issue on police brutality related to ethnic minorities A disquieting number of 1,146 people killed in 2015 and 307 of them are black, this includes death from police use of a Taser, deaths caused by police vehicles and dispute in police custody as well as those killed by officers who opened fire (Swaine, Laughland, and Lartey, 2015). Although there was a higher number of white people killed in the US (Gabrielson, Grochowski Jones and Sagara, 2016), it shows a…

The dark net and all its secret Drugs, human trafficking, and cyberwarfare, these are the thing that can be found on the dark net. The dark net gives us access to all of the content that is not available to us through the normal means. It was developed in the 1990s by the U.S Navy, it is an encrypted web search that allows anyone to search anything in the comfort of their own home without the fear of being found by the authorities. The dark net has many search engines that is well protected,…

Have you ever heard or seen those scary border stories? Do you ever watch documentaries or television shows, even the news on the border safety? Over 32% of all inmates in state prisons in the U.S. were under the influence of drugs or caught with possession of drugs. Drug enforcement agencies or DEAs makes over 30,000 arrests each year due to illegal narcotics. Nearly 48,000 people have been killed over the past 5 years in Mexico due to suspected drug-related violence. Also, remember the guilty…

The US forces could have captured Aidid and his lieutenants. The US HUMINT sources put Aidid at the target location at 15:37 of 3 October, 1993. A cyber network operator (CNO) could have accurately located Aidid sooner. Triangulating or Geolocation Aidid's phone would be simple task for CNO. The time of day and location of Operation Gothic Serpent was not ideal for the US forces. (Editors, 2016) Somalis forces were at their peak the time the operation took off. The fact is that Operation…

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, surveillance is the act of watching a person or a place, especially a person believed to be involved with criminal activity or a place where criminals gather (“untenable”). Surveillance, in the United States, is an extremely debated topic for many citizens. One person might contemplate what are the costs, and benefits; which was one of Katerina Hadjimatheou’s many points in her article on surveillance. Other citizens might ask themselves, how much of our…

Project Success: Facebook The website was born as a focused network in almost immature task of comparing the girls at Harvard University. Due to the success, part of the community became a yearning among students. First at Harvard, then at Stanford, Columbia, Yale and MIT. This was the driving force factor of the first moments of the network, in the United States and Britain. But what really catapulted the network, which has surpassed 500 million users, was the decision to maintain its API…

Social Media and Privacy. Social Media refers to the interaction between people, using a variety of web based technologies to create an interactive platform where individuals and groups engage with each other in productive and sometimes not-so-productive activities. The advent of the internet age has brought about a sea change in relations and the way we conduct business. Today the physical boundaries between nations and people have been blurred with passage of information being just a click…

The important characteristics of IR is that it can’t penetrate walls or other opaque materials. Typically, with an IR-based system, a receiver is placed in every location in which a tagged device might be found. The tagged device emits IR light, and if the tagged device is in the same room as a receiver its position is known. The major advantage of an IR-based system is that as the oldest and most installed positioning technology, solutions are generally available from a variety of sources…

INTRODUCTION/ CULTURAL DRIVERS Throughout history, communication has played a significant role in the development of cultures and more specifically effective communication. Effective communication facilitates people to understand each other, breaks down language and cultural barriers, and builds trust and respect for one another. Today people have evolved, so as the way they communicate. We can trace the first form of communication to cave paintings around 130,000 B.C.E. The theory is that the…