A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
After you read the material from The End of Trust, please reply to the discussion board here on the issue of privacy/surveillance.
I don’t want to lead this discussion too much because I want it to be organic/interesting/student-driven.
You have several options for this. They include (but are not limited to): responding to one of the readings with a comment or question for the class; talking about a personal experience that has something to do with privacy (see my example below); responding to another person’s post in any way (try to further the discussion, if you can); and/or posting any kind of thought or rant about the importance of privacy as it pertains to law enforcement, tech, or our basic civil liberties.
The only pressure here is that you will have to use at least one thing that gets posted in your upcoming research papers (i.e. this discussion board will be a source).
Example:
OK, I’ll start with a quick story about finding a woman’s purse in a coffeeshop bathroom (it was a unisex bathroom, btw). There it was on top of the hand dryer. I was going to turn it in at the counter, but, to be honest, I didn’t know if I could trust the coffeeshop employees to do much more than toss it in the back room. So I looked in the wallet for an ID. I punched her name into the internet, found out she was local (Berkeley grad). Looked her up on LinkedIn and found out where she worked. Recognized the name of her workplace because they sell some skincare products my girlfriend uses. Texted my girlfriend for the address. Walked the purse a couple of blocks, walked in the store, said: is there a ___[woman’s name]___ here? Then it hit me: this might freak her out. Who was this unshaven guy who just called my name? But it was too late. So I held the purse up, and she realized what had happened. I told her the story, and we had a good laugh about how easy it is to track a person down…
*100 words
Please post the answer by5pm, 24th
