Social Media and Privacy

Social Media and Privacy:

                Rape has become, to some people, not as serious as people once thought. There are plenty of examples of people tweeting and posting things making fun of rape and victims. Some people go as far as bragging that they committed the crime. Sexual assaults use to be a very private thing. They were reported about 50% of the time, and when they were reported it was really just a “he says” “she says” case. Now because some of the sexual assaults are posted on the internet through social media it builds more of a case against the criminal. But there are draw backs. Because they are so public, there are many cases of the victims taking their own lives. This is from basically everyone they know knowing and sometimes those people even make fun of them. I personally don’t understand how anyone could make fun of a victim of sexual assault or a victim of any crime.

Location Tracking

Location Tracking:

                I do not think that putting tracking devices into children is a good idea. There are many risks involved in this. One of the risks is if someone who isn’t supposed to access it does they can track the child’s every move. This is dangerous for the child. Also when the child grows up who decides when the tracker gets turned off? And someone could lie to the child saying that the tracker was turned off and it really wasn’t. Some of the benefits include the parents of the child always being able to know where their child is, and the child’s safety at a young age is enhanced. I believe the bad outweighs the good in this instance and because of this I do not think parents have the right to implant their children with a tracker. I believe even stronger for teenagers because they are becoming their own person at this stage and need to have some trust with their parents.

                If there was a bill in Congress proposing children 5 and under to have chip in them I would most certainly not support it. How is the person supposed to know the chip actually gets turned off or taken out after the child turns 5? The chip could stay in the person for life and the government could use it to track the person their whole life. I do not think that chips should be put into humans at all even if the person has Alzheimer’s. If the person knows that they are wearing GPS shoes I do not have problem with it because they bought them and could take the shoes off at any time. If you have a chip inside you then it is permanent until it is extracted medically.