Privacy Scavenger Hunt

California: More Privacy Towards Minors

Now that technology has skyrocketed into this new era of technology, California wants to regulate laws that pertain to California minors to protect their information in the digital world. 

But I believe that this problem should be solved by limiting certain things for age appropriate people. But this will go into effect in January 1, 2015.  

EPIC Files Complaint Against DoubleClick

EPIC is filing a complaint against DoubleClick, DoubleClick is an Internet advertising company. EPIC filed the complaint because the company is unlawfully tracking the online activities of internet users. This should be resolved by having the internet user, turn off their cookie settings. 

Driver's Policy 

The Seventh Circuit Court appeals that a federal privacy law, prevented a Chicago suburb from issuing tickets with the persons information. But the reason for this was because another law was made because a man found an actresses address through the department of motor vehicles, and he murdered her. 

But a way to resolve this is to have more security online and at the location.   

My Privacy Policies

Instagram

Their privacy policy says that they work with other companies and if they were to ever become bought by a company that our accounts will be intact but the company might also change it or keep it the same. 

Also Instagram has the right to give our information (username, passwords, etc.) for legal purposes. And they also share our information with the companies they affiliate with as well. It also automatically record a lot of things from your mobile device or computer.  

Twitter

They also record your data from your mobile device and computer. And they also share our information with third parties. And they basically have the same policies as Instagram but they have different affiliates. 

Facebook

Facebook also has the same policy privacy as Instagram and Twitter just a little bit more different. With both Twitter and Facebook they both share user's information when they buy something from the website or third party. 

Vine 

Also Vine has the same privacy policy as these other social media websites. 

I think neither has the best privacy policy because it records information from my devices which could and possibly become hacked. But Instagram does have the right to keep that from happening. So I would choose Instagram. The worst is definitely Facebook just because everything in my account can become exposed to everyone. I don't use Facebook as much and I feel okay with Instagram because my account is public but Instagram can prevent my account from being hacked. 

Group Progress Report 

Social Media - any online tool or application that goes beyond simply providing information, instead allowing collaboration, interaction, and sharing. Examples of social media include: blogs; microblogs; wikis; photo and video sharing; podcasts; virtual worlds; social networking; social news and bookmarking; web conferencing and webcasting.
We have two team members in our group.
Samuel is in charge in researching and Alicia will be stetting up and working on the presentation.  
For example:

EPA’s policy to use social media where appropriate in order to meet its mission of protecting human health and the environment. Agency product review processes in place for regional and program offices apply to EPA’s use of social media. 
http://www.epa.gov/irmpoli8/policies/social_media_policy.pdf 

Creative Commons and Project Gutenberg

Books 

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1513

Can be formatted as an HTML, for a kindle, an EPUB, and plain text. 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342

Can be formatted as plain text, kindle, EPUB, HTML, PDF. 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11

Can be formatted as plain text, kindle, EPUB, HTML, and PDF.  

Blog Roll Update

Blogosphere 

Broadway World

Newsarama

Broadway World is self-explanatory, its is all about Broadway news and one article really shocked me because I am a HUGE fan of Heathers: the Musical. The article said that the short-lived off-broadway musical, which was once a movie, will maybe have a Broadway run and a movie musical to come out in 2016. But I know for a fact that the producers wouldn't have more things in store if it weren't for the fans. Thank you J. Todd Harris and Andy Flickman.
This was just important thing I had to mention but a lot of the articles of breaking news of actors/actresses leaving on a absence from a musical or if a new musical is going to open or just interviews with the stars of Broadway.

I am a big comic book freak as well and I am so glad I picked the blog Newsarama. This blog just post daily news about comic books, DC and Marvel news, and updates about future Marvel and DC movies and television shows.

Chinese Gold Farming

In both the article and the video shows that Chinese men are honestly wasting their time playing video games for 30 cents an hour. These men practically live together in one house or building, spending almost a whole day Gold Farming, which is getting gold coins for virtual weapons or amour, for gamers in America or Europe in return for money. The fact that these men have other options in doing something else in their life they choose to play games. I also think that this is starting to become a stereotype with Chinese men being gold farmers. 

The video shows the different type of businesses in the Gold Farming, and how they feel about doing their job. A majority of the men said they do it for fun, but the matter of fact is that some of the men who started this business are having to close it down because of unreliable customers.