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Post by Online Privacy on Aug 24, 2015 6:11:17 GMT -8
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Post by Paige D. on Aug 24, 2015 14:22:12 GMT -8
I think that the reason students and their parents don't care about their online privacy is because technology has become such a normal use of social activity and research that privacy does not really come to mind. Organizations, such Common Sense Media, have to exist in order to "educate families about technology" (CBS News Paragraph 11); these organizations exist because so many families are oblivious to the fact that their personal information is in danger stored on the web. In addition, privacy seems like an afterthought to some. This is because so many other people are using the web and putting out their personal information that kids and parents think they can do the same without a thought about it being viewed by strangers. Most people are not aware of of the fact that people are getting access to their private information. The article above states that "until a couple of years ago, many schools weren't even aware" the viewing of private information "was happening" (CBS News Paragraph 2). Without online privacy awareness, your credit card number could be stolen if stored on the web and a stranger could drain your bank account to leave you homeless on the streets; so yes, online privacy does really matter.
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Post by Ryan F. on Aug 24, 2015 18:17:17 GMT -8
The reason why people don't care about there online privacy is because they think it has little value. Parents trust there kids not to say anything stupid online. Like tell other people there family fiances, through an e-mail. If people are smart online and don't divulge personal information, this wouldn't be a problem.In addition, all cases when using technology, there are private policy's that you have to accept before you use them, if they don't have a privacy policy don't use that technology. If you don't agree with there methods of business read instead of just clicking accept, and then don't use them. If people weren't aware as the article states there stupid, as they don't read what there agreeing to. Even if, they sell this information to marketers you still have options to buy there merchandise. In fact it might even help you find better products that you are interested in. It wont do any harm, its not like there selling the information to terrorist groups.
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Post by sydneylivingston on Aug 24, 2015 20:36:12 GMT -8
The reason why students and parents don't care as much about their online privacy as they should is because they do not realize they are being monitored on a daily basis. Many forget that people are watching and that they are being monitored because there are no signs that it is occurring. I think if you got an email or a text every time you went online to remind you that you are being watched, people would care a lot more about it. However, this is not the case so many just go about their business without even thinking about the people watching them. Online privacy really matters because even if you don't think you have anything to hide, you may have some personal things online that you don't want your government looking into it. According to the Domestic Surveillance Directorate "The metadata we collected from this program gave us information about what communications you sent and received, who you talked to, where you were when you talked to them, the lengths of your conversations, and what kind of device you were using". This shows that they are monitoring every aspect of our lives. Some people will ask why should anyone care that they are watching how long our phones calls are, however, they won't stop here and as our technology advances and the government gains more access to our online lives, they will be able to listen in and read everything we do or say. "In mid-2015, Congress passed the USA Freedom Act allowing us to continue the bulk collection of your data for another six months" (Domestic Surveillance Directorate) which shows they are showing no signs of slowing down or stopping this invasion of our privacy.
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Post by maggiemiller on Aug 25, 2015 20:07:40 GMT -8
I don't think they realize what they are agreeing to when they buy/sign up for a new social media account or even buy a new phone or laptop. Since there are 7 billion people in the world, people don't realize that it could be them the government is watching. I know that when I send a text or post something online, I definitely do not think the government is watching me since there are so many other people who are more suspicious than me. I agree with Sydney that if people were notified that they could be watched at the moment, people would be a lot more cautious about the things they say or post. Even though I feel that I have nothing to hide, I know that I wouldn't like someone freely going through all my communications. Both parents and students need to be a lot more aware that they are being watched and monitored because it isn't fair that we have the freedom of speech, yet when we say something wrong, we will be punished. Online privacy definitely matters because these days it holds our lives. We are so far advanced in technology that rather than using it for good, it is going to be used to punish people. This is the reason it is an afterthought, we don't realize how advanced we are becoming and how they are quickly taking away our freedom. However, when we are faced with it or reminded about it, we remember what they are doing and then start to think about our online privacy.
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Post by Paige D. on Aug 26, 2015 19:44:23 GMT -8
I completely agree with Maggie when she says how "we have the freedom of speech, yet when we say something wrong, we will be punished." This is true, because we do have our freedom to say whatever we want, when we want to; this applies to our privacy, in that people should not be able punish us for our personal say in a matter. The Cornell University Law School explains the First Amendment which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech." We are given the right by law to say whatever we are feeling online and anywhere else in the world. The reason why privacy seems like an afterthought is because we all know we have the freedom to speak what we want to, without someone punishing us for our feelings; we know we are supposed to be able to speak our minds without people judging our opinion and punishing us. This is why most people don't think about their privacy when they post their opinions online. So again, privacy does matter, because we should not be allowed to be monitored and punished online for only having the legal right to speak our opinion.
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Post by jessica90zamudio on Aug 27, 2015 21:12:55 GMT -8
Students and parents don't care about privacy because anything we post online doesn't matter if it's on private or not it's online and it's part of the domain. Whenever we post stuff online we know that most likely it will be distributed throughout the internet and anyone can have access. "The technology industry spent millions of dollars lobbying against us. They would like to have unfettered access to -- by the way, your (parents') personal information -- as well as your kids' information, so we started passing these laws ... and the momentum is moving in the right direction," Steyer said.(CBS News Paragraph 11) the technology industry is always going to find ways to maneuver it's way around the system so it's much better to use common knowledge and assume that everything we post online can and will be viewed by anyone. People can take screenshots and post them on their site which isn't on private, there are many ways people can obtain access to your pictures and information. Online privacy is an afterthought because you have to assume people can view your picture and the site domain is also vulnerable to hackers, there are many possible ways people can access your posts. Online privacy doesn't really matter because it no longer exist online, so many hackers nowadays that it's impossible for many domains to not get hacked. Online privacy is not a thing, if we post pictures online we can eventually google search them and find them under images most of the times. Online privacy has been un existence for some Tim now and it won't come back since technology is evolving each day more and more, it is becoming more complicated everyday.
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Post by jessica90zamudio on Aug 27, 2015 21:28:58 GMT -8
I agree with Sydney , "students and parents don't care as much about their online privacy as they should because they don't realize they are being monitored on a daily basis" we personally don't experience watching eyes and so we don't know the feeling of our privacy being broken. We don't realize the feeling but the statistics and the documents snowmen leaked tell the opposite that we are being watched and we don't even know it, that's the whole point and yet they tell us but we are not in charge of running the government so we have no power over surveillance. I also agree that "if I got a email or text every time you went online to remind that you are being watched, people would care a lot more about it" when we see the effects we actually take charge and do something but, our instinct is to kick back if we see it does no harm to us we don't do anything until it starts annoying us like the texts if we actually got the texts that would trigger us into anxiety mode and we'd actually get frustrated because we'd know our privacy is being tethered with.
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Post by Erika Escalona on Aug 29, 2015 16:56:37 GMT -8
Online privacy has turned to a joke now in the twenty first century, its no wonder students/parents don't even hope for it anymore. We have emerged ourselves in this big tangled web called the internet that we don't even know how to make it return back to how it used to look like. The plain truth is that once we put our information in the internet, its almost impossible to keep it private. Online privacy was definitely an afterthought because I don't think anyone imagined how immense the internet would be and how hard it would be to keep things private. I mean even if we try to super secure something like the Common Sense is trying to do, there can always be a loop hole that a hacker can use. Although that doesn't mean privacy is not important, actually the exact opposite. Privacy is crucial to feeling secure and entitled to your own life. No one should be allowed of manipulating your information against you.
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Post by Erika Escalona on Aug 29, 2015 17:13:12 GMT -8
I agree with Jessica that its ridiculous that our information would stay private because its in the internet now, meaning its now part of the many files of information in there. She is right that anyone can just grab it or take a picture of your private information and send it to another not private page. We all just have to assume that anything we post online can and will be used against us. This is really important to emphasize to the younger people because I feel like they still don't comprehend the severity of this issue. That's why I disagree with Jessica, about how online privacy isn't important. A person should not be punished for the rest of his/her life for a mistake they did when they were a child. There must be a way to make certain information private online especially because we were promised or told that it was going to be.
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Post by Ben M. on Aug 30, 2015 9:54:28 GMT -8
I believe the reason why students and parents don't care about their online privacy is because they think there is nothing to hide about them. They think its only a post for their followers or a quick email to a friend and they probably don't think about it anymore than that. With all the people using the internet and social media it has come down to the point where if you don't have a life online, then you're a "nobody" and people would think you're weird. Since people accepted that being online is a normal thing now these days, they wouldn't care about their privacy. Privacy is an afterthought. I think privacy does matter if it's about a person's legal information, finances, and bank accounts. If there's posts of your food, hobbies, friends, and family then I think privacy doesn't matter as much. The internet is the second version of being outside in my opinion.
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Post by Kiana R. on Aug 30, 2015 11:47:52 GMT -8
I believe that the main reason that students and parents don’t ever care about their online privacy as much as they should is because they don’t realize that we now have the technology so that the information that they put on the internet can be accessed, even if the person makes that information private. When it comes to the internet, privacy doesn’t really exist; however, not a lot of people realize this, causing privacy to be an “afterthought”. As soon as we sign up for “free” social networks, we are paying with our privacy. In the end, people shouldn’t be putting anything they want to be private online because nothing is actually private. This is something that people just need to accept and know by default, especially as our technology progresses.
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Post by emmalandry14 on Aug 30, 2015 12:18:18 GMT -8
Privacy is an afterthought because we don't care about it until it is breached. Nobody is concerned with privacy until they have a reason to which would mean that something would have to happen for them to really care about their privacy. Students and parents don't care because they pull the "I don't have anything to hide" line and they don't think that anything they have on the internet really matters. Online privacy does matter because a breach in online privacy can really hurt an individual in a very personal way because to can lead to breaches in other types of privacy.
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Post by emmalandry14 on Aug 30, 2015 12:25:04 GMT -8
I agree with Maggie. It's not about whether or not we have something to hide because, in truth, most of us don't have any information that would be useful to the government. It's about the idea that we can't share something with our friends and family without anyone and everyone having access to it. It can make someone feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
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Post by Elise Coash on Aug 30, 2015 12:54:59 GMT -8
I agree with Kira. Before we started learning about privacy I had no idea that the government and private businesses could spy on almost everything they wanted. Many adults do not even know how to use technology, let alone technological privacy. If people were more educated on the topic I think that everyone would lean in the direction of wanting more digital privacy. After we learned about digital privacy I definatly wish for more digital privacy. Online privacy is an afterthought because it is not a main concern of Internet users. People are so focused on using the Internet rather than the repercussions from using the Internet. Also most people need to use the Internet and will sacrifice their privacy. The only way to be digitally private is to not use the Internet at all which is impossible in our modern society.
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