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Assignment 3B

I feel very strongly that we all have the right to be forgotten. I don’t think ones story shouldn’t be said but in cases of foreclosures and personal information then that should be able to be removed. To not have the right to be forgotten is a breach of privacy.
In order to have ones information on the web for anyone to see is a major invasion of privacy. when one removes their information then that would keep them at ease.

I don’t believe that it clashes with our first amendment because it is ones right to remove his personal information. its not as if one is asking the removal of anyone else’s info nor to have a story removed but in the case of financial or so then he/she should have that right.

when we talk about digital identity then we are referring to all the information that you display or show simply by just doing some searches or entering certain websites. after watching the Ted Talk by Gary Kovacs it showed a new light of who controls your digital identity. it seems its not fully understood exactly who controls it, but its very clear a lot of information is displayed to any site looking to follow your every move.

assignment 2w

Seaman:

  1. Would you consider presenting it to make it a law?
  2. How would one possibly get it removed from all sources?
  3. Would it be fair to limit the rights of a journalist?

Newman:

  1. Should the United States try to implement the same right as Europe?
  2. Would it be possible to limit people to access people’s information instead of totally removing it?
  3. Can the European stop independent sites that reside in all other countries?

The influence of corporate interest

In todays society many companies have an interest to defend themselves. In order to so they usually find a way to cover the public eye by taking the main focus of what they are hiding. I have heard for a while now about this but never tried to look up some examples of it. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/02/04/5-ways-new-media-are-changing-politics in reading this article I seen that in order for companies to make you make you have an opinion which coincides with their interest they push this through bombarding the common reader with social media or whatever form which one would see all over the internet what they want you to see only. https://smartknowledgeu.com/blog/2013/smartwealth-academy/independent-v-mainstream-news-a-choice-of-being-informed-v-being-re-educated/ in this article I seen the major difference of how mainstream news shows you things that independent news sites you would see in a whole new light. this now shows me that in order to get the full tory behind any event one should exhaust all resources to understand what is happening in the world.

Paper Text vs. Digital

Although I’m always used to reading text on paper I figured I would give a try to read in digital form in order to see the difference. For this assignment I read an article in the New York Times “Clinton and Trump Each Lay Claim to Military Brass” and at first I was extremely against doing so due to the fact that I’m usually against digital print. I was being bias, and to tell the truth it was mostly due to the fact that I don’t have a tablet or any device with a large enough screen. I usually use my phone for quick reads.so I used my laptop to read the article and found that it wasn’t as bad as I predicted. it would still take some getting used to, but surprisingly I didn’t find it as dreadful as I thought it would be. I now look at digital print in a different perspective. Though not as good as paper print at least I now know that I’m able to read some text in digital form. its good knowing it wasn’t a nightmare after all.