Word Wars Over the past decade technology has enabled people to express and showcase the right to freedom of speech in ways that they never could before. Technology promotes freedom of speech but also facilitates hate speech, thus bringing countries into an ongoing brawl. Through text messages, Facebook live, photographs and even videos, the age of the internet has exploded into a time of instant knowledge and access to anything a person has to say, and freely doing so in that matter. In countries
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The Opinions About Internet Freedom How could the Arab Spring succeed through using internet? People was opposed to the dictatorship policy and they organized a new block online. Finally, they make a protestation to overthrough their leader and they succeeded it. Today internet, is much more common in the world. Many people can connect internet. People can share their idea which can be both positive and negative almost freely. Some governments tackle to create free internet because they know
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publicized in the use of a commercial. He expresses his concerns for the publication of drones and what effects drones would have on our privacy. I agree with Greenwald’s accusations that NPR should not have used the commercial to promote drones because it creates bias, does not explain the overall effects drones have on civilization and how it goes against our personal privacy. In NPR’s commercial they express nothing but positive aspects of the drone. Within the five-minute commercial, four
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America exemplifies the life of Laura and Jim, a couple on their honeymoon, and their journey across the United States, from Las Vegas, Nevada to Georgia. During the journey, they parked in Wal-Mart parking lots for a free place to sleep and every employee they ran into absolutely loved to work for the company. The employee’s positive outlooks form an exceptional reputation for Wal-Mart and its corporation. Of course, this sounds too good to be true. This story, after investigation by Jonathon Rees
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As a person who swore to protect and defend this nation, along with my other comrades of the Armed Services, I take national security very seriously. However, as the same person who took the oath of service, I also swore to protect the rights and liberities of my fellow Americans. Being as young as I was when terrorist attacked the U.S. in 2001, I can't recall the immediate effects the attack had on my civil liberties. As I matured and gained a better understanding of the attacks, I have viewed numerous
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All of these are covered by the data protection act however the data protection act does not say anything about privacy which means companies can sell of some things to other companies for example Microsoft could sell some information about you to another company and they would sell the same thing to another company which would then lead to you getting a call from people that work at a PPI place and this would happen because you put down some information to create an Xbox live account got sold off
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It seems as though it would make sense to keep the Fourth Amendment the way it is, but with warrants issued if a probable cause is given it is possible one could acquire a warrant with false information. Although it is illegal to search private premises without a warrant the NSA was given a warrant to obtain phone records not only of certain individuals but for anyone that gave them genuine reason to believe they were engaged in terrorist activities (Avalon project). This gives the NSA an opportunity
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WhatsApp have recently boasted of providing end-to-end encryption for all its features. That is, every message you send, whether its text, photo, voice, group or one-on-one, is kept secure during transmission until it reaches its recipient. An organization committed to advance secure communication technology worked with WhatsApp to implement an encryption system that offers full coverage. With the help of Open Whisper Systems, WhatsApp messages have become secure, and users will see corresponding
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been questions after questions regarding the privacy of the things people do online. People are fearing that the government and their respective agencies are overreaching in their collection of citizens’ data. The whole topic on its own, raises quandaries; and at times even resentment due to America’s belief in securing their personal data from the government. In today’s highly technological society, surveillance and monitoring do not encroach upon privacy, but rather aid in promoting civil liberties
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Surveillance over the internet is a relative new thing that has happened over the past 30 years. Recently in the past 15 years the restrictions and surveillance over this valuable resource has greatly improved. Not only are governments getting in on the data mining but also corporations. I highly disagree with the idea that it is okay to know what individuals are doing on the internet and to restrict content due to that. This paper will describe what monitoring is happening of the internet (that
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