I remeber in my intro to electronic media we talked about how the internet is not regulated by the federal government almost anything can be put on the internet. When we went over society and how it relates to IS 215 it was one of my most interesting classes. We talked about having the rights to privacy from the government. Opt In or Opt Out but is that really privacy.
You may think that you have privacy and your information is being kept secret but just like the videos we watched in class on the hacker who turned that into a career. Or the pizza delivery ordering video. People information is being looked at and sold to other companies everyday to look at buying habits. Example my old professor told us how a younger boy was over his house while he went on a date and he called one of those chat lines. He said that he received subscriptions for up to two years for dirty magazines and other things of that nature.
i think that it is good that the U.S has the Opt Out unlike Europe with the Opt In. However, credit card companies sometimes make it seem like we have an opt in. I remember growing up and the phone would ring. My mom would answer and say how did you get my information I did not subscribe with you. She'd threaten them and they would hang up.
I think it is very important to make sure your internet is secure. There is a lot of information floating around. The right information can get into the wrong hands. We all have seen it happen
ReplyDeleteOnce I was shopping online, my credit card information was stolen by hackers. How can we get a safe internet environment.
ReplyDeleteThe key to being safe on the internet is to have so little money in your bank account that no one would want to steal your identity. Works for me!
ReplyDeleteI think that it is funny how people think that the internet is at all secure. When it comes to things like facebook or myspace people think that just because it is private they think that no one can see their page. Its amazing what hackers can do and people just dont know it.
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