When Did You First Realize the Importance of Online Privacy?

When Did You First Realize the Importance of Online Privacy? | Electronic Frontier Foundation:

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In a comment below, address the following questions:  

1.  When Did You First Realize the Importance of Online Privacy?

2.  Do you agree or disagree with the recent changes in privacy legislation (see videos embedded above)?  How will these changes affect you?

3.  What are you doing to protect yourself online?

4.  How could you become more involved in the ongoing fight for your rights to privacy?

Why You Should Care About Apple’s Fight With the FBI

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Why You Should Care About Apple’s Fight With the FBI:

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Tim Cook says Apple will fight US gov’t over court-ordered iPhone backdoor

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Google’s CEO just sided with Apple in the encryption debate

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If Apple loses to the FBI, we're all screwed

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This is why the FBI can’t hack into iPhones

Instructions:  

Read the five articles linked above regarding the ongoing legal battle between the FBI and Apple.

Read the official letter from Apple, linked here:  http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

Summarize the issues in a comment below.  State the arguments from each side.

• Explain where you stand on these issues, on privacy in general, and your understanding of what is at stake for all of us.   
• Include an explanation of what we stand to lose if Apple does not win this battle.

Net Neutrality

Net neutrality loss: What it has in common with SOPA.:

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• A)  What is the definition of "net neutrality"?
• ( ...and in your own words, Jordan Webb!!)

• B)  What is the big deal about net neutrality, and how does it affect you?

• C)  What is at stake in the battle over net neutrality for the following entities:

1. Internet Service Providers (like Comcast and AT&T)
2. Media producers (like NBC and Universal Studios)
3. Internet companies (like Netflix and Google)
4. Consumers (like you and I - the general public)