Location Tracking

After thinking for a while about this topic of location tracking with children, I actually think that it could be a good thing overall for them. It would help solve many kidnapping cases and help parents keep track of their kids. Once the children are old enough to think for themselves, then at that point they should not have the chips for tracking. I only feel that it is productive and a good idea when the kids are very young like 5 and younger as mentioned in the question. It is a complete invasion of privacy when you think about it, but for such young and helpless kids it is a good thing. Parents will have one less thing to worry about while caring for their children. Certain risks are that once the little child is of older age, how do they take the chip out? That could be a cause for concern, but other than that I do not see too many risks with this idea. As far as the Bill requiring a chip goes, I cannot say that I will ever agree with this. Although it says children under 5 which is the age I personally think it would suit well for, I don't think it should be a law. Parents should have the right to do it at their discretion. They should not be forced to do so because if they clearly don't want a GPS chip inside their kid then they should have the right to say no. Making this a law would be a huge invasion of privacy and I am sure that it would have a lot of negative feedback and I can't say I could ever see it passing anyways. Older people with Alzheimer's could fit in the same boat as the young children five and under for me. At the discretion of themselves and their children/caretakers, they should have the right to choose whether or not they would like to implant a chip or not. It could serve well just as I feel it will for children. Overall, I do find this to be a positive thing and the good heavily outweighs the bad in my opinion, but I would never support a Bill trying to be passed to require such things.

Social Media and Privacy

Social media and privacy are contradicting things in my opinion. The second you post anything on a social media website, it is out there forever. There is however a huge difference between you posting something yourself for others to see and someone else posting something of you without your consent. These different cases of rape related photos and videos being posted to Facebook is absurd. For one, who in their right minds would videotape someone being violated and even worse post to Facebook for the world to see. The only reason anyone should ever be taking a video is so that they can take it to authorities for legal matters. I cannot seem to find any positives from doing such a thing. I do think if the videotapers/cameramen took the evidence to police privately then maybe it would be a good thing, but I don't think its ever a good idea to post it publicly for all to see. Clearly nothing good comes from it, only pain and suffering from the victims like the girl who's naked body was shown on Facebook. All her classmates made fun of her daily to the point of suicide. Overall, I do not believe there are any positive effects of posting such horrible incidents on any social media websites.

CS408

This course has taught me many things already regarding the internet and it's only been a few weeks. I am curious to see what else we will learn. So far, the most interesting thing I have learned was the last QQI we had to do with disappearing and how technology will affect it. I think its crazy that it is so easy to track a person through their internet usage.