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Privacy has taken on a new meaning in the age of the internet. No longer do we think about the privacy of our own homes or having a safe space away from others. Privacy is now a leading issue of internet usage, and it’s now common to assume we never have privacy online. Many peopleContinue reading “FINAL PAPER: Children & Online Privacy”

Social media is a major part of our everyday lives, but something we never think about is what happens to a person’s account once they are no longer living? Each platform has its own way of handling the deceased individual’s profile, but there are many factors that go into it.  For Instagram, the biggest factorContinue reading “Blog 10: Social Media Accounts of the Deceased”

“Robots have infiltrated the human world. We built them, one by one, and now they are all around us,” writes Adrienne LaFrance in What is a Robot. The 2015 film, Ex Machina, explores the idea that these robots we build can develop more than just what we program them to do. The movie takes onContinue reading “Blog 9: Ex Machina”

In my research I found that one major ethical concern with e-commerce is the issue of poor customer service. While brick-and-mortar stores allow face-to-face interactions between customers and employees, there is a barrier when it comes to online shopping that makes customer service difficult.  According to Chron.com, “Unethical e-commerce companies can make it very difficultContinue reading “Blog 8: Unethical E-Commerce Practice”

One case of cyber vigilantism I’ve seen fairly recently was in the documentary, Don’t F*ck With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, on Netflix. I watched this a few months ago, but the effort put into finding an internet killer was incredible. The documentary follows a Facebook group of concerned users from all over the worldContinue reading “Blog 7: Cyber Vigilance”

A platform with specific guidelines to protect certain groups is Instagram. This social media platform, which launched in 2010, allows users to share photos on their feeds or stories, along with comments and likes on others’ posts. Being that it’s a platform of sharing personal information for many, Instagram has set certain rules and measuresContinue reading “Blog 6: Social Media & Privacy”

Facebook, a social media site created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, has come under fire across the globe for scandals involving tracking and selling users’ private data. While privacy laws in the United States where the platform was created are looser and not strictly regulated by federal laws as in other countries, elsewhere around theContinue reading “Blog 5”

The documentary, “Terms and Conditions May Apply” was interesting for its deep look into the one thing we always agree to without knowing exactly what it is: the terms and conditions. It was scary to think of all the ways users of websites, apps, devices, etc. are being taken advantage of by the government andContinue reading ““Terms and Conditions May Apply””

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is a nonprofit internet governing body that works to coordinate the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure no two web addresses are the same or conflict with each other. In order to do this, ICANN “outsources the actual buying-and-selling of those domains to third parties, andContinue reading “Internet Governance”