VIGNETTE “Sexting”
1. Does sexting represent a form of expression that
is protected by the First Amendment?
Answer:
For me sexting is just another form of
expression which should be protected under the First Amendment. It is, moreover, beginning to result in criminal prosecutions, and the statutory penalties are severe.Some prosecutors are using child pornography and
other felony charges against teenagers.
2. What can be done to protect people from the
dangers of sexting while still safeguarding our First Amendment rights?
Answer:
For us people will able to be protected from the danger
of this sexting is to avoid from texting to those people who you do not know and ignore them.
The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF)
1. Visit
the EFF Web site at www.eff.org and develop a list of its
current “hot” issues. Research one EFF issue that interests you, and
write a brief paper summarizing EFF’s position. Discuss whether you
support this position and why.
Answer:
EFF issues Google Desktop warning
Google has released a revamped version of its desktop search tool which introduces the ability to search the contents of one computer from another. Previous versions of the tool indexed files on user's PCs, but using the optional "Search Across Computers" facility in Google Desktop 3 temporarily stores text copies of searchable items on Google's ownservers for up to 30 days.
Search Across Computers makes a range of files - including web histories, Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, power point presentations as well as PDF files and text files in the My Documents folder - searchable from other computers. The contents of secure web pages are excluded from the list. Users would log on using their Google password can find data on files they've worked on regardless of which PC they used to produce them. Users can also exclude certain file types or locations from indexing.
Even so, privacy activists such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have said the feature "greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy". It describes the facility as a gift to government snoops and a convenient "one-stop-shop for hackers" who've obtained a user's Google password. Users should avoid using Google Desktop 3, it advises.
Google argues that the growing use of multiple computers by users makes the feature useful. "Too many people are working across multiple computers now," Google vice president Marissa Mayer told USA Today. "This makes their lives easier."
In fairness, Google does acknowledge that the tool involves a trade off between functionality and security. That's a compromise Windows users ha3ve been stuck with for years, you might think. But even before the search engine behemoth was subpoenaed for search information by the Department of Justice, Google's latest desktop revamp would have raised eyebrows. The EFF, for one, is adamant users shouldn't trust Google with the contents of their personal computers.
"Unless you configure Google Desktop very carefully, and few people will, Google will have copies of your tax returns, love letters, business records, financial and medical files, and whatever other text-based documents the desktop software can index," EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston said. "The government could then demand these personal files with only a subpoena rather than the search warrant it would need to seize the same things from your home or business, and in many cases you wouldn't even be notified in time to challenge it."
I support this because Google does acknowledge that the tool involves a trade off between functionality and security. and this makes our or their lives easier.
2. What
reasons might a firm give for joining and supporting EFF?
Answer:
I've
been supporting it in a minor way for many years, joining early on and making
small contributions of news services and money. It's been doing very good work,
and you should examine the resume of that work on the EFF web site. It's my
firm belief that there is no greater catalyst for the success of a society than
liberty. History tells that story again and again around the world. As new
aspects of society -- and whole new societies -- are built online, the EFF's
mission is to protect that liberty. The payoff, if it succeeds, is tremendous,
a huge increase in economic prosperity and an incalculable dividend of personal
freedom
Link: http://www.templetons.com/brad/eff.html/
3. The
vice president of public affairs for your midsized telecommunications equipment
company has suggested that the firm donate $10,000 in equipment and services to
EFF and become a corporate sponsor. The CFO has asked if you, the CIO,
support this action. What would you say?
Answer:
Yes, i support this to make easy to manage. and it is also a marketing strategy for the company to be a part of being a subject welfare corporate sponsor of this advocacy.
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