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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Information/Data Collection


Information/Data Collection

Has anyone else noticed that you can’t download and save YouTube videos anymore? I use many YouTube videos and TED talks for instructional purposes (for math skills). I like to download the videos and save them to my pen drive or Google drive(docs). If I download the videos, I always have them. If the Internet goes down, I can still teach my class. In the library world and business world, it’s all about the bandwidth. Libraries are notorious bandwidth hogs, because of our intensive need for data. The impact of not being able to download and save videos, means I need to rely on my Internet connection at all times when I am teaching. If my school does not have sufficient bandwidth, everything comes to a halt. I am fortunate to work in a district that is working to increase our schools bandwidth.



So what’s all the concern over data collection while using the  Internet ?

I use interactive games to try to illustrate to my students how pervasive and possibly dangerous social media has become. This interactive game – Gauging Your Distraction tests your “ability” to drive and text. Did anyone see the lady in white?

Whenever we use the Internet, whether to check our e-mail or Pauly’s blog, we leave digital footprints. These digital footprints can be traced and tracked back to you. This calculator can help you determine your digital footprint.

CISPA – It’s back!

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives This bill threatens an individual’s online privacy. Just as your rights under the Bill of Rights are under siege in the analog world, your rights are also under siege out in cyberspace.
If you are concerned with this encroachment on your rights, you may wish to add your voice and object to the CISPA re-introduction.

Some useful links regarding Online Privacy

American Library Association – Office for Intellectual Freedom

Electronic Frontier Foundation – check out the drone data

The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.
-----U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission, 1977


My opinions…supported by FACTS ! ! !

Julie Farrell

7 comments:

  1. Well these are some scary thoughts. Probably why no one has responded. The digital footprints that we leave our subtle. I am positive that the ads on Pauly's blog are formatted just for the individual. The ads that I am seeing are tailored to my business. I also find it interesting that when hitting the "see more" button to expand this particular blog, that there are no ads whatsoever on this page.

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  2. I get different ad results depending on which device I'm using. Cellphone vs ipad vs desktop.

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  3. 1984 is coming true. Big Brother is watching. All the more reason to keep physical money and physical mail in existence. If we let our mail become 100% email and our money all done through debit and online banking, it is possible for our world to be monitored and manipulated without consent. Keeping physical correspondence and currency keeps our society honest and tangible. A digital world may be more productive and make certain parts of life easier, but what freedoms and identity do we give up in exchange?

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  4. Anon 12:54 am + 7:23 am.
    It does seem scary at times. The reason I post this type of blog is to try to create awareness of the situation.

    In the digital world, access does not equal ownership. The implications are far-reaching. Libraries (ALA) are trying to deal with publishers regarding e-books and digital rights management. Truly a brave new world.

    You give up your right to privacy in so many countless ways in a digital world. When I go into Boston, I usually park at Alewife. The parking system has changed so that you need to pay at a kiosk before you leave the station. I never pay with a debit or credit card at these kiosks. I purchase a Charlie card with cash and pay for parking with cash so that my movements can not be tracked. More than once the parking kiosk that lets you pay with cash was malfunctioning. The ratio of cash kiosks to credit card kiosks is 3:1. people are being forced to the credit card kiosks. "They" want to be able to track your movements through your credit card use.

    This blog was just an FYI of things to come. In the near future the use of RFID chips will spread. RFID is being used in credit cards, debit cards, licenses and in the near future will be imprinted in our money. You can be tracked by your cell phone signal as well as iPad/tablet signals as well.

    I don't think "whoever" wants all this information, is looking out for my best interest.

    Sleep tight.

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  5. So what do we do to protect our rights and our privacy?

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  6. Stay informed. Monitor sites like EFF. There are core organizations fighting back on legislation that takes away our first amendment rights and our right to privacy...the right to be "let alone".

    Social media is a game changer. Like this blog and a number of other web 2.0 tools that are making mainstream media irrelevant ( like newspapers).

    You need to have the ability to check and verify all of your information sources. Is everything on this blog the truth? You won't know until you check and verify the opinions expressed and statements made. This blog is important to Templeton. It is a place to post information and see if it is true or even plausible.

    When I post a blog, I try to link up documents to back up my opinions. I encourage people to check my data/facts ...maybe they will come to a different conclusion. That's part of the process. I welcome ideas that might be different from my own. Together I think it will make for better town government. That's my goal.

    Take care...also purchase a wallet that blocks RFID signals...they do exist. I have one .

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