Interviews

Adam Bunting -
Telephone # to reach him at CVUHS is: 802-482-7151
Email: ABunting@cvuhs.org

Robin Lauzon-
Telephone # to reach her at CVUHS is: 802-482-7131
Email: RLauzon@cvuhs.org

Court Cases

One court case that has recently became a wild fire of talk and gossip, is Robbins VS, Lower Marion School District. A student named Blake Robbins was brought in to his assistant principles office, apparently he had been performing  "improper behavior in his home." but how would she know? well the school district had been spying through the built in webcams on the laptops they gave to the students in a new computer program where EVERY student gets a laptop for the year. She used a picture taken from the laptop as evidence against the young boy to try to punish him for out of school behavior. Three schools got the laptops, and multiple students are now suing the school district for their violation of privacy.

Another case is Quon VS. Ontario police department. In this case OPD gave their employees pagers. Many of the officers went over the limit for texts, even though they had to pay for the overage fees the OPD was curious as to weather they needed to increase the plans or if it was mostly personal usage. They got the messages from their carrier and began searching through the messages. Quon was later fired do to explicit content in the messages during work hours. he them sued the OPD for a violation of the 4th amendment. The court later announced in favor of the OPD. 




First part:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/school-accused-of-using-webcam-to-photograph-student-at-home/

http://www.newser.com/story/86446/spying-school-district-has-thousands-of-secret-pix-of-kids-lawsuit.html

http://www.newser.com/story/81237/school-gives-kids-laptops-spies-on-them-via-webcam.html

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html


second part:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1332.ZS.html

http://iepolitics.com/2010/04/20/inlandpolitics-ontario-police-department-case-matter-heard-before-us-supreme-court%E2%80%8F/

Currrent Interpritation

As of now there are NO nation wide laws about your internet privacy or safety. On the other hand some individual states are starting to take action for example. Nevada and Minnesota are requiring internet service providers to keep certain information private if it concerning their customers, unless the customer gives permission to reveal the information. Where as in California and Utah, the laws which are not specifically targeted to online businesses, also require all non-financial businesses to reveal to customers, by writing a letter or by email, the types of private information the business shares with or sells to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Under the California law, businesses can post a privacy statement that gives customers the chance to reject sharing the information at no cost.

These Law only affect four states what about the other forty six states? they get left out, unprotected, and victim to scams EVERYDAY

http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=13463

Constitutional Connection

As I stated in my previous post, The 4th amendment in the Constitution Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause. So, A computer is part of your home right? well then why do people we don't know get to check out the things we do on them? being apart of our home implies that we have to right to deny any search upon any aspect of it. But on the other hand the internet is something that is not apart of our home so therefore there is a loop hole in which people take advantage of. How did they get the right, privilege, and permission to go through our personal, private business? Being that there are two sides to this problem in the 4th Amendment, it puts our need to know answers in a gray area causing HUGE controversies over the problem at hand.


Freedom of speech, does this include the following:

• Getting denied from collage for saying something you think?
• Getting denied for blog post? 

I don't think it mean you can say something you think then get your life denied because of an out loud thought. It means the freedom to say what you feel with out consequences. 

Issue Explanation

Internet Privacy is a big topic right now because people are starting to learn their internet lives aren't as private as they might think. "Privacy refers to the general belief that certain things such as written materials, oral communications, and matters having to do with personal relationships are confidential and should remain so unless they are voluntarily divulged." stated by James P. Colt. But why is that our PRIVATE email accounts are open to anyone? James P. Colt also confirms our fear, "digital footprints remain after one surfs the Internet, posts information to a Web site, or sends and receives email or text messages." Does this tell us we have absolutely NO privacy? Yes, social security numbers, passwords, online banking information... all of which are a hackers dream come true. All of your account information is there for who ever knows how to get it. But now its getting easier, Facebook, just about everyone has heard of the social network sweeping across the nation.Well as a lot of young people put their phone number and address there Facebook is selling it to third party companies. Facebook has recently announced that they are making members phone numbers and addresses available to developers and other third party companies.this means you will be getting spam text messages. NOT COOL. Facebook also tried to say they are asking permission to give away information, according to Chloe Albanesius "there are just too many attacks happening on a daily basis which trick users into doing precisely this." which mean the Facebook pop up you get... isn't always Facebook. Overall When your online and your asked if you want your information private, Remember, NOTHING on the internet is private! Is there a law against this? nope! The 4th amendment in the constitution Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause. Does this include computers and internet searches? why or why not? things such as this are why internet privacy are in a gray zone for people. Unknown searches through our private things all the time, and the right to refuse isn't even there.

http://issues.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1560148?terms=internet+privacy
 

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE|EJ3010735214&mode=view http://realestatecoach.com/blog/?p=294

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375888,00.asp

Trial Search "The beginning"

Internet Privacy, something that not a single person in this world has. No matter what your searching looking at or posting someone can see it. Personal emails.... Think again the government can access with ease. Just graduation high school? wanting to go to collage? How about that post on Facebook about the party you went to?? UVM: DENIED! Yes that's right collages will also snoop through your social pages to see what you have been up too. do you like online gambling? Well GOOD NEWS!! People sell that information so you can get scammed into signing up for something FAKE! Okay so we've learned that computers aren't safe but what about cell phones? NOPE there not safe either. I know sad right so that text message you sent five minutes ago about the under age drinking at a party yesterday is open for just about any hacker to see! We now know our world of electronics is NOT private at all.

• Why are people allowed to look at our personal things?
• Why don't we have any privacy?
• Do we lack privacy do to being less important? 
• Is there anyway to protect our selves?
• does privacy mean anything?