Week 13 Muddy Point

My muddy point after this weeks readings.  How can our privacy rights just be given away so easily?  How can the collection, analyzing and selling of personal information NOT be a violation of our civil rights?  When did it become so "right" to know the intimate details of our lives without our knowledge?  Who decided that our every move should be known and followed?

Assigned Reading 13 No Place to Hide

Book that was written that describes how private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to created a security-industrial complex.  This tells how the government depends on private information and how every aspect of our lives our used to "promote" homeland security.

Ways we are identified:  Cell phones--our location

 credit/debit cards--our purchases recorded

cars--tracking devices built in

there are now all types of information collectors and sellers--

Lexis Nexis--personal records

Choice Point--collects, analyzed and sells

Verint Systems--works with marketers to track ans assess customers

Assigned Reading 13 TIA and Data Mining

TIA  is a tracking system used to detect terrorism through the analyzing of information.  It was envisioned to give law enforcement access to private data without undo cause or warrants.

It was developed to tract potential terrorists by collecting information using computers, algorithms and human analysis.  This information is collected from multiple sources to create a virtual, centralized grand database.

in 2003 the funding was eliminated.

There were additional articles that told of what has become of TIA, the critics that were against this "tracking system" and how it is an invasion of not only our privacy but also of our civil rights.

Assigned Reading 13 You Tube Video

I tried to watch this but the banner across the top said the video was no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom Inc.  Was anyone else able to watch/find this video?

Comments week 12

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Assignment 12 Weblogs

this article told about the use of blogs and how they have progressed throughout the years.  Blogs can be used to disseminate all types of information as well as personal thoughts and ideas.  Blogs can also be useful in place of emails--in the work place.  They give people the freedom to express their ideas and thoughts but ideas can be archived by date and time.  It is also easy to read and comment on people's blogs--the owner is able to allow who can comment and read, thus keeping their ownership.

Blogs are becoming more popular and there are all kinds of software available to the consumer.

It is interesting to write about a blog article on my blog!  I really didn't know what they were until I had to make one and it is interesting to read and comment on other's thoughts, ideas and viewpoints.

Assignment 12 MUDDY POINT

If social tagging is so beneficial, why arent more libraries doing it?  It seems like there are benefits to the patrons, yet this way of researching and keeping information is still not a well known used piece of technology.