12/6 Reading Responses

No Place to Hide

I think that this website was fairly interesting, because it discussed issues about which much of the nation’s population is concerned in this increasingly digital age.  Even though much of the information on this site is not surprising, I still found some of the information to be informative. This website provides many interesting links to other sites such as the Center for Democracy and Technology’s site, the site for the Department of Homeland Security, and the Direct Marketing Association’s site.  The interviews with people such as Asher, Ashcroft, Dinh, etc. were interesting, although unfortunately many of the interviews were too short.  I think that the Center for Investigative Reporting is an important organization of which more people should become aware, because it provides many good articles about the status quo of security in the United States.  Generally, I thought that this website was rather interesting and discussed issues of which more people should already be aware.   

TIA and data mining

This website provided more important specific information than the first website in my opinion.  Tracking systems such as TIA may be intended to be used for strictly anti-terrorist purposes, although these systems could be abused in specific ways by those controlling them, and those in control of such systems should be scrutinized to prevent invasion of privacy.  I found this site to contain a great amount of interesting news links and resources from the past, although unfortunately there are not any recent news articles.  I think that this website could be a very informative site for anyone not aware of the events that have occurred within the last ten years regarding electronic information privacy.  I would like to find more sites like this in the future, particularly ones that could provide more recent information regarding electronic information privacy.   

YouTube Video

Apparently this video was removed from YouTube because of a Viacom copyright claim, so I could not write a review for this article.