What is cyberbullying??

Cyberbullying, as defined by Google, is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Nowadays there's so many different social media apps and outlets people are using that its easier than ever to be attacked. Its even happening to celebrities. There's been a bunch of recent cases in the past few years of cyberbullying leading to suicide. Cyberbullying can consists of posting rude/vulgar comments on someones page, continuous degrading text messages, and also pictures are being used. The article "Audrie Pott, Rehtaeh Parsons suicides show sexual CYBER-BULLING is 'pervasive' and 'getting worse,'" by Julia Dahl, talks about how laws aren't up to date with the new technology and the threats they can lead to. They have a hard time prosecuting because usually they're dealing with minors and the parents of the kids being bullied aren't happy at all.Some states have begun adopting new laws but not fast enough.  "Law enforcement is behind the times on this,...as it becomes easier to post or text or comment on a photo, sexual cyber-bulling and cyber-stalking is becoming 'more pervasive, more common, and more acceptable.' law enforcement generally lacks understanding and training about the realities of how the old problem of so-called 'slut-shaming' and blaming rape victims for things like how they dress or what they drank has evolved in the digital age 'It's not getting better, it's getting worse'".

Legal and Ethical Issues

Personally I think that some information should be made available free to the public. I find most copyright laws annoying. Like scholarly journals and published books and things like that should be made available online for people who need it. I feel like if it was made for education purposes then students should be able to read it and see it for free and not have to pay for it. Thanks to open access some research is made available to universities as explained in the article, "Open access research grows in popularity", by Joseph Harvey. It says that "Open access research is becoming the prominent way to publish university research due to government pressure. Open access research, which is a push to make tax-funded research available to the public, is not new idea. However, it has gained attention due to recent federal pushes toward these types of results". Copyrighted material works a little different because its legally binding. In order to use copyrighted material you're supposed to be licensed to do so. Although people do it everyday even though it can be considered illegal. I think music and movies are the hardest ones to control. I hate having to pay for my music it was easier to get free music when I had an android phone but I feel like apple makes it alot harder to download "illegal" music. I think it should be free though, famous people get enough money out of us.

Privacy and Security

I think privacy on the Internet is something I worry about a lot. Nowadays technology is growing so much that you really have to wonder if anything is really private anymore. One of the articles that stood out to me was the one about a supposedly "private" picture that was said to have only been shared with friends but was seen by the public. The article " Facebook Privacy is so Confusing Even the Zukerberg Family Photo isn't Private" by Rebecca Greenfield addressed the problem that users have when posting pictures on social websites and whose actually seeing them. " The way Facebook works, friends of your friends tagged in a photo album also see the entire roll, unless you choose otherwise in the settings of the album posted. (It's not a universal setting.) The term "friends" in this album at right indicates my friends and all the friends of people tagged in the post. Changing that involves clicking "custom" and unchecking a box that reads "friends of those tagged." You have to go through extra measures to make sure people not on your friends list don't see your pictures, its not the default setting which is really strange. Personally I feel like if you're willingly to put any photo online then you understand that its gonna be out there forever and most likely seen by people you don't even know. Even people on your friends list can copy your photos and who knows what can happen with them from there. I think Randi Zukerberg made a big deal about her photo getting out to the public to be honest, she should at least know better if she didn't want the world to see it then it shouldn't have been put up. 

Another Article I read that I thought was interesting was "Self-driving Car are A Privacy Nightmare. And its Totally Worth it" by Timothy B. Lee. Ever since I was little I waited for the day where cars like this would exist! I don't think there's a major privacy issue I agree with the article. "The benefits of self-driving cars are likely to be so enormous that American consumers will sign up in droves, regardless of the privacy implications.We know this because American consumers have already enthusiastically adopted a technology that allows the government to track their every movement: the cellphone. To complete incoming calls, your cellphone company needs to know where you are at all times." I feel like if the government or someone really wanted to find me they wouldn't have that much trouble due to today's growth in technology. Some people are more naive and think they hide themselves so well but seriously if the government wanted to find you they will. If you have nothing to hide then you really have nothing to worry about.