Week 5 EOC: Legal Challenges with Modern Internet

With the birth of the internet we as people have been faced with some major challenges. Three challenges that we are facing today are: privacy, copyright laws, and piracy. 

Privacy:
"The Challenge: Now more than ever, we share much of our private lives through online networks like Facebook and Twitter. We also choose to store more and more of our digital data in the cloud or on our cellphones. While information collected about our digital preferences can personalize the Internet for each of us, there is the concern that our data could be harvested and sold like crops or even used against us." (1) This problem is just on the rise and will continue to be grow. With all of the social media sites, people just want to share everything with everyone, although you can set you profiles to private, how private is it really? The increase of online shopping and digital banking has also begun to create issues that we didn't have before or not as much. People have begun to put extremely sensitive information on the web such as, social security numbers, birth dates, and credit card numbers. This information can literally ruin a persons life but yet it's an ever growing trend to shop online. Plus with our technology becoming more advanced banks are starting to become digital with robotic bankers. In order to reduce this problem we need to come up with some better privacy laws that will protect the people because if the problem gets worse people aren't going to want to keep finding ways to advance technology. It's has also been said that "text messaging and email are rapidly taking the place of voice calls as the communications means of choice; however, it's not settled whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protection extend to these modern communications. If the Fourth Amendment does apply, the government may not obtain those communications without a warrant." (3)

Modernizing Copyright Laws:
"The Internet’s power as a medium through which creators can distribute their work continues to grow, yet the current copyright laws are hopelessly out of date. For the Internet to fulfill its potential, new and modernized copyright laws must reflect the current relationship between technology and creativity." (2) Copyright laws really need to become more detailed about what is right and wrong when dealing with the internet. The laws we have right now are kind of still lost in the past when there was little to no internet. Back in the day there probably wasn't to much plagrism or stealing of digital work such as pictures. Now there is so the government needs to address like how many words or sentences have to had been copied in order to be considered of breaking the law, and maybe even consequences for rather you knew you were stealing copyrighted work or not. 

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Piracy:Another problem we are faced with is the increase of piracy. Piracy effects the economy, jobs, and it messes with working people's money. The picture shown informs readers of the statistics for the problems the piracy beings to us. This issue will only continue to grow as the internet becomes even more popular, and as people find more ways to link information.














Citations: 

1) The Internet's Top 5 Challenges In The Next 5 Years: IADAS. Retrieved on October 31, 2013 from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/top-5-challenges-facing-the-internet_n_809146.html#s223340title=Protecting_Privacy

2) Webby Judges Identify Top Challenges of the Internet.  Retrieved on October 31, 2013 from http://www.webbyawards.com/press/next5.php

3) 5 Issues That Will Shape the Internet's Future. Retrieved on October 31, 2013 from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Media/top-issues-shape-internets-future/t/story?id=10800442

4) Online Piracy in Numbers- Facts and Statistics. Retrieved on October 31, 2013 from http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/online-piracy/