...our everyday lives. We are capable of doing incredible discovers due to the availability of products that is constantly being renewed and produced. Our technology grows with every single day becoming newer and better possibilities. Eric Arthur Blair, known more famously by his pen name, George Orwell, wrote 1984 as a statement against totalitarian governments, surveillance techniques employed by them, and as a warning to the future. The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is not allowed to rebel against Big Brother’s tyrannical rule. Rather, he must find ways to escape living a private life in a very public and exposed world. The novel has caused researchers, writers, students, and professionals to question whether our own government could become a modern day Oceania....
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...workplace. You may think your United States employee rights authorize you to have a privacy workplace. People are wrong because, according to workplace privacy studies, the odds were good that your employer was monitoring all your internet actions, including your web pages and chat rooms (Niznik, 2011). If your company policy does not state there is a workplace privacy policy, your employer may watch, listen, and read just about everything in workplace area. Employers have the right to protect their business, their finances, and all of their equipment. The American Management Association (AMA) conducted a study of 526 employers which most use some type of electronic surveillance of the employees (Niznik, 2011). Many employers will deny they use any type of electronic surveillance however; the odds are good that your employer has “the eye,” watching your every move at work. Employers are not required to provide workplace privacy because your employers own everything you use at work. Your employers own the computers you work on, the telephones you talk on and the buildings in which you work. There are only a few weak employee workplace privacy right laws that exist. Since there are so few workplace privacy laws, it is legal for “the eye” to spy on you without your consent or your awareness. The only time an employee should have privacy at work is when they are changing their clothes or using the bathroom. Surveillance should not be allowed when you are in a place where you will expose...
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...markets to quality American goods and services (for instance, NAFTA) Economic security council / Advocacy Center / CIA / FBI –Economic Counterintelligence Program The stakes in this game are high! 5 FRANCE: UBIFRANCE -Offices in France (partnership with chambers of trade) -80 offices in 60 different countries (156 in 120 countries if Economic Missions considered) -More than 1,400 collaborators MISSION: to make French exports easier, to support and to monitor French companies abroad. 6 7 “Private economic war” International competition Is it replacing military conflicts? Competitive intelligence and/or industrial spying? Information is a weapon (by/for/against) Law could also be a weapon Macro: norms (protect innovation/advantage) Micro: lawsuit as guerrilla wars Economic/ industrial spying increases each year (30% in the U.S.). 8 Geopolitics, International Environment and Business Risks identification Major international risks 9...
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...Week 2 Homework 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Federal Registration- Distracted Driving Grant Program This will affect every person who drives and texts, which has become a big concern with DOT, highway patrol and the safety of others on the road. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) the Department of Transportation (DOT) announces the availability of funding authorized in the amount of $17.525 million in Federal fiscal year (FY) 2013 funds to provide grants to States for enacting and enforcing distracted driving laws. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) My comment is that the distracted driving grant program is a good idea, although around $5 million of the federal...
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...3K7 Tel: (519)661-3208 Fax: (519)661-3882 Email: cases@ivey.uwo.ca Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction,storage or transmittal of this material without its written permission.This material is not covered under authorization form CanCopy or any other reproduction rights organization. Ivey Business Journal Online is published by Ivey Management Services a division of the Richard Ivey School of Business. For subscription information,please contact: Tel: (519) 661- 4215 Email: ibjonline@ivey.uwo.ca or visit www.iveybusinessjournal.com Negotiation is not a competitive sport Taking a hard line may be fine -- but only in the short term, and only if you really believe that your counterpart is your adversary. But negotiation is often a series of episodes, which means that considering your counterpart as a partner or a collaborator is the foundation of trusting and fruitful-- and ongoing -- negotiation. How the game is played matters more than who wins. puts itself in a position it can't get out of without losing face. This is as true in international diplomacy as it is when a parent tries to reach an agreement with a fifteen-year-old child. When parties adopt a position, locking themselves into a narrow range of 'acceptable' outcomes, they often conclude that the most appropriate approach to negotiation is to treat the process as competitive - where the outcome has to yield winners and losers. The short-term thinking that underlies...
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...one of the oldest forms of this, ensuring that Canadian’s have an ethical government that protects their basic rights and freedoms. It is disturbing for me to see fear being utilized as a tool to remove these rights; such as free speech. Considering the capacity CSIS has for spying on Canadians still remains relatively unclear, the lack of transparency of this bill should worry Canadians, as the outline of the bill could be interpreted various...
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...A Trip to Grand Rapids - Essay In the short story, ‘a trip to Grand Rapids’ by Garrison Keillor in 1987, the main topic is family, where we are getting to know about the conflict and how it is to realize when your children are getting older and more independent. Roger Hedlund, his wife Cindy and their two daughters, Cathy and Martha Hedlund are living at a farm in Lake Wobegon with their new black kitten, a dog named Oscar and some hens and chickens. Roger Hedlund is a strict man and kind of like “his words is law” type of person and he is conscious of it. “You don’t? No? Well. I don’t know either,” She said. “I was hoping you’d know. You’re always so – so-“ “Strict?” (Line 87-89) Here we can see that he is aware of him being so strict. But I don’t think he really is as tough as he tries to be, for example at the beginning of the text, when he orders Martha’s new little black kitten to spend the night outside. Here I think Roger wants appear tough on the outside, but really is softer on the inside and that’s why he ends up in the middle of the night looking for the kitten because he feels pity for it. I will say that this is one of the signs about Roger’s honor and pride. He doesn’t want anybody to know that he gets pity over a “stupid” kitten. So when Martha says it’ll be easier if it just stays inside, he immediately agrees, which she didn’t seem to expect, so without notice she continues to try and convince him, even though he already agreed to...
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...According to a Pew Foundation report, “79% of male gun owners and 80% of female gun owners said owning a gun made them feel safer, and 64% of people living in a home in which someone else owns a gun felt safer.” This statistic shows that being around guns make people feel safer, which gives people a good peace of mind. This makes the people happy, and when the people are happy, the country is peaceful and stable. According to Wayne LaPierre, he states that, “’If you look at why our Founding Fathers put it [the Second Amendment] there, they had lived under the tyranny of King George and they wanted to make sure that these free people in this new country would never be subjugated again and have to live under tyranny.’” This quote shows that the government will get too much power, and the government may eventually ban guns and confiscate them. A criminal will still get a firearm illegally even if the government banned guns. The right to self-defense will make people feel safer, and they can protect themselves from attackers and a tyrannical...
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...when hijackings and bombings became the method of choice for subversive, militant organizations around the world. Although security at airports has always been tight, the 9/11 attacks awoke many people to a harsh reality. Airport searches are composed of identity confirmation, bag check, metal detectors, and full body searches. These few steps are seen by some as a violation of privacy but in my opinion it is extremely important. The reason as to why I truly believe it is vital for the safety of all citizens is because if these searches were done back in September 11 then maybe the attacks to the Twin Towers would not have occurred. Airports are taking safety procedures very strict now due to that mishap, if you even say the word “Bomb” they will pull you aside and search you. Although this may seem extreme, due to past circumstances the...
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...federal law that stated if you are married to more than one person at a time you can get fined $500 dollars or less, or be put in jail for no more than 5 years because it’s against the law. George Reynolds had said this law was unlawful, and it had violated the first amendment. In the First Amendment it says you have the right to practice your religion, and he had believed it was his religious duty to marry more than one woman at a time. Soon this case had come to the Supreme Court. (3) Opinion: When the case was reviewed the court had decided on Monday, January 6, 1879, that everyone has to follow the law, and they cannot excuse themselves from it just because of their religion. The court had also confirmed George Reynolds conviction and the congress’s power to ban polygamy. According to the Supreme Court the First Amendment did protect religious belief, but it did not protect religious practices. Just because religions had their own religious beliefs it doesn’t mean it’s right, like practicing polygamy which means being married to more than one person at the same time. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) (1) Constitutional Question: In Louisiana, was it unconstitutional to separate whites and blacks on railway cars under the Fourteenth Amendment, section 1, and the Thirteenth Amendment, section 1? (2) Background information: An act called the Separate Car Act was passed in Louisiana, which meant that Blacks and Whites had to ride in separate railway cars. If they did not ride in...
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...employee privacy of over their personnel records, the use and storing purposes by employer over employee personal data. Especially, when the privacy falls into the subject of electronic surveillance by employer at this electronic age in the workplace. Most employees are becoming self aware and frequently increasingly concerned about their privacy on daily basis, as their employers are constantly monitoring them electronically way more obvious than ever before. Thought, attempt had been tried to block this sneaking activity, but the number of failures at some state whom tried to prevent this monitoring activity still failing, as employers always have some strong various reasons to sneaking into their employee. The reasons could range from monitoring or spying on employee email, phone line to internet activity with the reason to ensure the productivity of the employees at workplace. When it comes to employment, many employee privacy rights are granted by specific laws, rules, and regulations. Employees should always be treated with respect, dignity, appreciation and not be exploited. Federally protected rights that employers should honor are: a. not to misuse employee health or medical information for insurance purposes. b. no privacy invasion because the employee works at home. c. always inform workers about surveillance. e. To keep the employee’s information confidential. f. To get clearly informed consent from...
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...The Issues of National Importance Based on Current Events 1. Nature And Animal Conservation Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. 2. Tobacco It is well know that tobacco smoking kills millions. But it also exacerbates poverty, contributes to world hunger by diverting prime land away from food production, damages the environment and reduces economic productivity. Second hand smoking also affects other people’s lives. Despite many attempts to prevent it, a global tobacco control treaty became international law in 2005. However, challenges still remain as tobacco companies try to hit back, for example, by targeting developing nations, increasing advertising at children and women, attempting to undermine global treaties and influence trade talks, etc. 3. COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference Posted Monday, December 02, 2013. An overview of the Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 19), held in Warsaw, Poland in November 2013. Predictably and sadly, the same issues have resurfaced: West stalling on doing anything, lack of funding, disagreement on priorities, etc. Climate Change And Global Warming Introduction Last updated Monday, November 11, 2013. The climate is changing. The earth is warming up, and there is now overwhelming scientific consensus that it is happening, and...
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...play a huge part in the way a spy can carry on their lives. Focusing in on the issues regarding loyalty and betrayal, we can see that in the novel, “Cause for Alarm” by Eric Ambler, the main character Nick Marlow Encounters many problems regarding these spy problems. Marlow is involved in a few different parties and with the variety of involvement comes with vast issues regarding who and what he is actually loyal to, and whom he is betraying in regards to his actions that he takes throughout the novel. One of the early loyalty issues we come across through this novel is when Marlow decides to take the job of going to Italy and selling the machine parts to the enemies of his home country of England. To some it would be viewed as betraying your country by aiding the enemy with their munitions processing. By the Italian government have a huge hand in buying Marlow’s product, he is helping out the enemy and he is in a large state of betrayal. Marlow insists that by doing what he is doing is just his job, and he has no moral or political positioning in what he does, just simply that he is doing it because he is doing what his employer has asked him to do. Marlow states his loyalty to his employer by saying “ My company purchases my loyalty by paying me to represent it,”(95) This suggests that Marlow is bluntly showing loyalty to his employer by only just doing the job that he has been sent to do, regardless of the buyer. The company that Marlow works for is mainly concerned about...
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...Eavesdroppers of the new genNxt It is one of the bad things which are a possible way in any relationship like love life, marriage life and so on, discovering our husband or wife has been false love. If we are not sure with the relationship, there are many things that we can do find out the truth of our partners. We have the option to sit down with a local private detective agent who gave a few tricks about the false thing which happened in our life to catch any cheater. Have we ever felt like we are being watched our partner in our own relationship? In the previous time, spying on someone meant chronic outside their home or following their car at every time, but now a day’s technology does most of the heavy climb and so detective and private...
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...loved tinkering with pocket watches and simple farm equipment would lead a manufacturing revolution. Henry Ford did. Even from an early age Ford understood that he wanted to change the world. His dream was to design and build a “horseless carriage,” a dream that he accomplish in 1908 (Ford, 2008). However, not even Ford could have predicted the magnitude at which both his invention and his business strategies would have on the world. Henry Ford was born in the small town of Dearborn, Michigan on July 30, 1863. The town was better known as the Greenfield Township. Ford’s parents were both European immigrants. His father, William Ford, emigrated from Ireland and his mother, Mary Ford, though born in the United States had strong ties to Belgium. (Henry Ford, 2012) The Fords were a successful farming family and never had to worry about money. While Henry Ford knew at an early age that taking over the family farm would have been a safe and advantageous decision, his ambition kept him focused on other possibilities. (Ford, H 2008) Ford’s teenage years were instrumental in helping him develop is dream and his career. There were two important memories that Ford could recall that sparked his interest in motor vehicles and engineering. Around the age of twelve, the Ford’s were traveling to Detroit with family when they passed a “road engine” delivering farm machinery (Ford, H 2008). This was the first non-horse pulled vehicle Henry had ever seen. From that moment Henry knew he wanted...
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