Privacy policy

What is Apple? Apple is a multinational technology company. So far Apple has had a problem with the FBI. The FBI wanted Apple to create a new software that can hack into a person’s iPhone to examine their personal information, but Apple refused. Apple’s decision on not allowing the FBI to hack into people’s iPhone was right. In the article entitled PRO/CON: Should Apple have resisted FBI pressure to hack an iPhone? By Tribune New Service, examines the area in which Apple had the right or not…

For the “Good Thing/Bad Thing” assignment I chose to watch the first episode of Black Mirror, a British anthology series that features controversially dark and sometimes satirical themes that examine modern society, particularly in regards to the the unknown future of technology. Despite finding the first episode highly disturbing to the point of comedy, I found myself indulged in the series as a whole and even got excited upon hearing that Netflix will renew the series for another season. The…

Marisa Taylor is an investigative reporter and Jonathan Landay is a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, based in Washington, DC. The National Security Agency (NSA) is turning down requests from individuals who want to find out whether the agency is holding records of their telephone communications. Simply answering yes or no, the NSA argues, is classified information that would jeopardize the effectiveness of its data-collection program. That means that…

case we are faced with an employee caught in the crossfire or an employee setting boundaries to protect employees, students and other involved, but also violates those same groups right to privacy. Under most circumstances, those employed by the city, state or federal government are subjected to limited privacy. Organization are often uncertain were to draw the line between protecting the company’s assets and employees while providing a safe and secure work and school environment. In this…

belongings in order to keep the community safe. Safety is not as important as privacy. Officials should not be able to use information they obtained from private devices or social networking sites in order to protect the community. There are many reasons why officials should not be able to monitor students’ online activity. For example, monitoring someone else's online activity and phone snooping is an invasion of privacy and a violation of freedom of speech. Gregory Diaz, a criminal…

In the TED talk, “A vision of crimes in the future” Marc Goodman speaks about how advancing technology is used for crime. From terrorists to robbers, the use of technology allows these people to have an advantage over law enforcement. The terrorist attack in Mumbai used modern communications to allow the terrorist to have an advantage over the police by having a live feed of information from a control center. On the other side of crime is the advancing of gene and cell technology. The same…

Direct Quote Would you rather risk national security or your own personal privacy? Right now that is the question for all Apple users. The FBI is requiring Apple to create a software to get passed the auto-erase feature on the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooters. They believe that there is important information on their phone about other terrorists. Kurt Opsahl, general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital rights non-profit explains that “the…

What I took away from the video Online Therapy was an odd combination of “of course that makes sense” and “I have never thought of it that way before.” I am sure there are younger people in our class who are very comfortable with the concept of therapy in the digital age. However I am past 40, and at first, the idea seemed like something I would not consider. I must confess though I have taken part in therapy sessions for my son utilizing online methods without even realizing that is what I…

Informatics Electronic Health records: A boon or privacy nightmare? Health records are supposed to be private and secure. This article shows how not all health records end up being private and secure. Health records were stored in different ways. People were trying to steal private information. Then you had people that didn't know they could be committing a crime and saw it as no big deal.Health records were supposed to be secure years ago and now. If health records were put in the wrong…

E. Thompson, there are imperfect ways to spy on citizens around the world. The government is finding ways to use surveillance to notice what is going on around the world. But some actions that they've taking lately aren't really "protecting ones privacy." It can be many ways that unsolved crimes could be solved so increasing all the technology in the world can be safe and unsafe. The government makes decision's on what happens in the world already, but some are satisfying and some decision's…