Short answer
- What is an RFID tag and what does it do? It is a radio frequency identification tag, they contain data that track the tag's location.
- What is an EDR and what does it do? It is an event data recorder, it records information events happening in places such as cars and planes.
- Is it possible to identify someone, perhaps a patient, knowing just his or her gender, birth date, and zip code? Explain. It is possible, it is just not the best way of doing it. People can have a lot in common and this can at most narrow down a select group of people.
- What is the difference between "big brotherism" and "little brotherism"? Big brotherism is someone watching over us, whether this be the goverment or companies that we give data to. Little brotherism is people looking up information based on whats already out there.
- How do you feel about “Big Brother” watching you? Do you think having security cameras everywhere is good or bad? I feel like it can be bad or good depending on the situation. The goverment has a right to put cameras and such on the streets and goverment owned property, but spying on people's homes or private property isn't.
- Is the Privacy Act effective? Explain. I feel like it is a good thing but not necessarily effective. Goverments can still spy on you, and chances are they will. Putting laws in place only matter if it is followed.
- “The digital explosion has scattered the bits of our lives everywhere: records of the clothes we wear, the soaps we wash with, the streets we walk, and the cars we drive and where we drive them.” (pg 20) Marketing companies use these data to build models of our preferences and use these models to recommend products to us.. In 1 or 2 paragraphs, address the question 'Am I willing to trade some of my privacy for the convenience of having a computer or a company recommend products to me? Why or Why not?’ I feel that having a company recommend products based on what I look at can be a good thing, if it is done properly. It should be done by actions on the website that will be using the data, not through cookies that store all that you do.
- How do “we leave digital footprints and fingerprints?” Do you think this is important for everyone to know? Why or why not? All websites have something to agree to when you make an account and most websites use cookies, and after awhile of using the internet it builds up. It is important for everyone to know, everyone has the right to know that they could be tracked.
- How has the social evolution affected privacy? Consider social networking. Yes, as it changed the way we are day to day. People put their whole lives on social media, and have mostly started shopping online. I feel that people feel obligated to put their lives on the web due to social pressure.
- What are our responsibilities as app developers with data that is gathered from the apps we create? Our responsibilities as app developers are to make someone that people will want while protecting their privacy. We are responsible for what they have trusted to give us.