Harvard Threats Posed to Privacy of Information & Their Aspects of Life Discussion

This end of module assignment is an overview of what you have learned. This is a chance for you to go over what you have learned, and it is also useful for you as it means you will produce a document that you can consult when you come to write your final paper. The more time you spend on this now, the easier the final paper will be!

Instructions –

Paragraph One – In your own words, give a brief overview of what the main content of the module was (2-3 sentences).

Paragraph Two – Can you provide a brief example of the problems that can arise if these ideas are not considered by those who create and develop computer technology? (2-3 Sentences)

Paragraph Three – How does this area of research inform the assertion that technology is not ethically or politically neutral? (2-3 Sentences)

Module Content: (Files are in the Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LhbB-uAMeq…)

Reading materials are important.

Malone, M. (2017). Who knows me best: Google or Facebook? Intelligencer. New York.pdf

Nissenbaum, H. (2010). Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford Law Books. Introduction.pdf

Palkin, S. (2014). Daniel Solove: Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? The Agenda with Steve Paikin. :

Auxier, B., Rainie. L., Anderson, M., Perrin, A., Kumar, M., Turner, E. (2019). Americans and privacy: Concerned, confused and feeling lack of control over their personal information. Pew Interest and American Life. Overview. : https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/am…

Halpern, S. (2019). The terrifying potential of the 5G network. The New Yorker.pdf halpern-5G.pdf

Poster, M. (1994). The mode of information and postmodernity. In D. Crowley & D. Mitchell (Eds.), Communication theory today (pp. 173–192). Stanford University Press. PosterChapter-1.pdf

Singer, N. (2019). What does California’s new data privacy law mean? Nobody agrees. The New York Times. pdf singer-data-privacy-new-york.pdf

Browne, S. (2017). Surveillance and race online|Simone Browne at MozFest. Mozilla. :

The Ethics Center.(2017). Ethics explained: The panopticon. The Ethics Center. : https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-panopticon-…

Zuboff, S. (2019). Databite No. 118: Shoshana Zuboff. Data & Society Research Institute. :

Crooks, R. (2019). Cat-and-mouse games: Dataveillance and performativity in urban schools. Surveillance & Society, 17(3/4), 484–498. crooks-datveillance-2019.pdf

The Surveillance Studies Center. (2019). Screening surveillance : https://www.sscqueens.org/projects/screening-surve…

This is good work overall, but be careful with borrowing language from other places and not properly citing it. Your description of the book was a little vague – I wasn’t sure what you were citing when you did cite and your argument wasn’t totally clear as a result.