2016年5月4日水曜日

Who protects privacy?

As we discussed in class, how a person behave in social networks and how the person actually is in real world isnt the same in most of cases. This is because the date about a particular person collected by cybervetting is not reliable. So cybervetting of job application is not good for not only employees but also employers because employers cant always expect the exactly the same person as the person in social networks even if they want to hire the person based on what he/she posted on social networks.

As for schools monitoring their students on social network,
I think a school should just leave students and dont have to surveillant students unless a student does something illegal. Also, a school shouldnt try to see students profiles or postings on social network service until some problems actually happened since as Boyd states, teens likely seek the places where they can compensate for lack of freedom in real world. If schools surveillent students and take their places to be free from restrictions in real world, they would feel oppressed.


So basically I oppose cybervetting of job application or surveillance over students. However, I disagree with Andrews because lately most of social networks provide us ways that enable us to block someone or set display restriction on social network. Thus, making a law, Social Networks Constitution, that bans any institutions from taking advantage of a persons information posted on a social network is not reasonable because we have a mean to protect ourselves even though what we can do to limit exposure of our posting or activity on a social network. We should be responsible for our own private information as long as we are given some methods to do so. I think its not the governments job.