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Notes from today, and questions for Wednesday 11/30

The final version of the research paper is due by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, November 30. To prepare the final version, please review the drafts I distributed and be sure you delete all comments and changes using Comments and Track Changes in the Review ribbon in MS Word. For formatting and other questions, please refer to the guidelines as well as the template and the checklist I distributed by email last week. If you have questions not answered by these documents please get in touch early; do not wait until Tuesday night.

There is no reading assignment for Wednesday. We will be talking about the future of information, and to prepare for class discussion, please consider how you would answer the following questions:

•Has the way that you think about information changed over the course of this semester?
•Has the way that you use information changed over the course of this semester?
•How?
•What do you see as the future of information?
•What challenges will this future bring?
•What opportunities?
•Are you ready?

BE PREPARED to discuss your answers in class.

Groups for the online documentation project were established:

Rudolf, Lissette, and Manish

Marc, Chris, and Lukasz

Wale, Randell, and Nityah

Carla, Yan, and Sebastian

Jonathan, Wendy, and Tarik

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

privacy online

To my opinion we have no privacy as soon as we click on the post button on any website. We generally sign up for coupons and discounts to some web site, they ask us to agree to the “terms and conditions.” I had taken one day to read the “terms and condition” of one third party provider and all it kept emphasizing is that personal information may be used by some other party and its agents. These days we are so internet savvy, many companies use the internet to transmit information, let alone some of these files get interrupted and find itself online,  these same companies will not tell their customers about errors so the person is aware of their private information online. Example of such like in the 2010 New York Presbyterian patient information leak, the play station was secretly gathering personal information which found itself on the net, finally the collection of peoples location by Apple (iPhone 4). GPS locator is a great device but someone could map all  trips you make and will be able to sell that information to another party even without your concern. These are just a few privacy concerns but they are lots more that have not being mentioned.