Cyberbullying

Cyber-bullying is unwanted harassment over the internet. As read in the article " Audire Pott, Rehtaeh Parsons suicides show cyber bullying is "pervasive" and "getting worse" expert says." These two young girls were so called "slut shamed" by their friends after reporting that they had been raped by a male student. To make matters worse photos on Facebook were put up of the alleged incident with many high school students saying terrible things about the victims. These girls never asked for harassment and only confided in their friends for help but it unfortunately ended up costing them their lives.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/audrie-pott-rehtaeh-parsons-suicides-show-sexual-cyber-bulling-is-pervasive-and-getting-worse-expert-says/

Legal and Ethical Issues

I believe that online information should be free due to the challenge of maintaining a cost to view selected information. There will always be another website that does something for free so there really isn't a way to compete with that in the end. Open Access allows for anyone to view anything online for free while claiming no specific ownership. Copyright is legally bound by someone or some group that can sue if passed of as free or sold by someone unapproved.

http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_2ddf4cc4-4a8f-11e3-8ff4-001a4bcf6878.html

Privacy and Security

Your privacy and security are two of the most important things that someone will have in their lifetime but the Internet is compromising this due to a vast amount of knowledge being told about yourself that you didn't even post online. When you post something to Facebook, twitter etc that information can be taken by anyone no matter if your face is in it. The government has date storage facilities all across the U.S monitoring what we search, what we shop for, our family pictures etc. We can put on all the privacy filters we like but eventually someone who is smart enough to hack into our photo albums and documents will have all of our knowledge on where we live, SSN etc. From the program PRISM we see how data is extracted through many search engines like google, yahoo, AOL and how social media outlets like Facebook, twitter and YouTube are all being closely monitored by the NSA to see what type of person you are. This information is then stored in an undisclosed location for an undisclosed amount of years because no one really knows how long it will be stored for since it's of little worth to anyone but maybe yourself. The debate then goes into who really owns that image because if it's on a site like Facebook then doesn't Facebook have the rights because it was uploaded to their site or does the original person who took the picture maintain his ownership of it?

Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations
http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/108232-information-privacy-changing-norms-and-expectations/fulltext

U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z1