Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Analysing ITGS Situations

Instructions: Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.

News article title: Data Privacy Day, Twitter and Google focus on government requests

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/tech/social-media/data-privacy-day/index.html

Brief description of situation: Twitter and Google release reports about users ask for personal information, most of them are from goverments.

Key stakeholders: Online users, government, Twitter and Google.

IT system involved: Twitter, Google and Other Social Networks

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3 Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance,

This article is related to reliability and integrity because this social networks are showing that users can rely on them to safe keep their personal information, except with governments. Also security and privacy and anonymity are affected because if the social networks involved share their personal information, their privacy and security may be at stake. Finally policies are also involve in this IT system because every social network have certain policies about privacy that they have to respect.

Areas of social impact:

Economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.

It has an impact on politics and governments because government are the ones that are directly asking for personal information.

Evaluating the impacts:

Are the impacts serious? Are they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are the impacts likely to lead to future problems?

The impacts are very serious because the privacy of the users and also the needs of the government are at stake. All the parties involved may be affected because if the information is given to governments, the social networks infringe with the privacy policy, while wif they don’t give the information, the government may have a lot of problems in finding certain people they are interested in, such as terrorists.

Conclusion: The consequences of this is the loss of privacy of the social network users to the government

Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Analysing ITGS Situations

Instructions: Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.

News article title: Data Privacy Day, Twitter and Google focus on government requests

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/tech/social-media/data-privacy-day/index.html

Brief description of situation: Twitter and Google release reports about users ask for personal information, most of them are from goverments.

Key stakeholders: Online users, government, Twitter and Google.

IT system involved: Twitter, Google and Other Social Networks

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3 Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance,

This article is related to reliability and integrity because this social networks are showing that users can rely on them to safe keep their personal information, except with governments. Also security and privacy and anonymity are affected because if the social networks involved share their personal information, their privacy and security may be at stake. Finally policies are also involve in this IT system because every social network have certain policies about privacy that they have to respect.

Areas of social impact:

Economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.

It has an impact on politics and governments because government are the ones that are directly asking for personal information.

Evaluating the impacts:

Are the impacts serious? Are they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are the impacts likely to lead to future problems?

The impacts are very serious because the privacy of the users and also the needs of the government are at stake. All the parties involved may be affected because if the information is given to governments, the social networks infringe with the privacy policy, while wif they don’t give the information, the government may have a lot of problems in finding certain people they are interested in, such as terrorists.

Conclusion: The consequences of this is the loss of privacy of the social network users to the government

Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Analysing ITGS Situations

Instructions: Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.

News article title: Data Privacy Day, Twitter and Google focus on government requests

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/tech/social-media/data-privacy-day/index.html

Brief description of situation: Twitter and Google release reports about users ask for personal information, most of them are from goverments.

Key stakeholders: Online users, government, Twitter and Google.

IT system involved: Twitter, Google and Other Social Networks

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3 Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance,

This article is related to reliability and integrity because this social networks are showing that users can rely on them to safe keep their personal information, except with governments. Also security and privacy and anonymity are affected because if the social networks involved share their personal information, their privacy and security may be at stake. Finally policies are also involve in this IT system because every social network have certain policies about privacy that they have to respect.

Areas of social impact:

Economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.

It has an impact on politics and governments because government are the ones that are directly asking for personal information.

Evaluating the impacts:

Are the impacts serious? Are they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are the impacts likely to lead to future problems?

The impacts are very serious because the privacy of the users and also the needs of the government are at stake. All the parties involved may be affected because if the information is given to governments, the social networks infringe with the privacy policy, while wif they don’t give the information, the government may have a lot of problems in finding certain people they are interested in, such as terrorists.

Conclusion: The consequences of this is the loss of privacy of the social network users to the government

Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Analysing ITGS Situations

Instructions: Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.

News article title: Data Privacy Day, Twitter and Google focus on government requests

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/tech/social-media/data-privacy-day/index.html

Brief description of situation: Twitter and Google release reports about users ask for personal information, most of them are from goverments.

Key stakeholders: Online users, government, Twitter and Google.

IT system involved: Twitter, Google and Other Social Networks

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3 Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance,

This article is related to reliability and integrity because this social networks are showing that users can rely on them to safe keep their personal information, except with governments. Also security and privacy and anonymity are affected because if the social networks involved share their personal information, their privacy and security may be at stake. Finally policies are also involve in this IT system because every social network have certain policies about privacy that they have to respect.

Areas of social impact:

Economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.

It has an impact on politics and governments because government are the ones that are directly asking for personal information.

Evaluating the impacts:

Are the impacts serious? Are they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are the impacts likely to lead to future problems?

The impacts are very serious because the privacy of the users and also the needs of the government are at stake. All the parties involved may be affected because if the information is given to governments, the social networks infringe with the privacy policy, while wif they don’t give the information, the government may have a lot of problems in finding certain people they are interested in, such as terrorists.

Conclusion: The consequences of this is the loss of privacy of the social network users to the government

Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Analysing ITGS Situations

Instructions: Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.

News article title: Data Privacy Day, Twitter and Google focus on government requests

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/tech/social-media/data-privacy-day/index.html

Brief description of situation: Twitter and Google release reports about users ask for personal information, most of them are from goverments.

Key stakeholders: Online users, government, Twitter and Google.

IT system involved: Twitter, Google and Other Social Networks

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3 Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance,

This article is related to reliability and integrity because this social networks are showing that users can rely on them to safe keep their personal information, except with governments. Also security and privacy and anonymity are affected because if the social networks involved share their personal information, their privacy and security may be at stake. Finally policies are also involve in this IT system because every social network have certain policies about privacy that they have to respect.

Areas of social impact:

Economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.

It has an impact on politics and governments because government are the ones that are directly asking for personal information.

Evaluating the impacts:

Are the impacts serious? Are they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are the impacts likely to lead to future problems?

The impacts are very serious because the privacy of the users and also the needs of the government are at stake. All the parties involved may be affected because if the information is given to governments, the social networks infringe with the privacy policy, while wif they don’t give the information, the government may have a lot of problems in finding certain people they are interested in, such as terrorists.

Conclusion: The consequences of this is the loss of privacy of the social network users to the government

Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Analysing ITGS Situations

Instructions: Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.

News article title: Data Privacy Day, Twitter and Google focus on government requests

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/tech/social-media/data-privacy-day/index.html

Brief description of situation: Twitter and Google release reports about users ask for personal information, most of them are from goverments.

Key stakeholders: Online users, government, Twitter and Google.

IT system involved: Twitter, Google and Other Social Networks

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3 Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance,

This article is related to reliability and integrity because this social networks are showing that users can rely on them to safe keep their personal information, except with governments. Also security and privacy and anonymity are affected because if the social networks involved share their personal information, their privacy and security may be at stake. Finally policies are also involve in this IT system because every social network have certain policies about privacy that they have to respect.

Areas of social impact:

Economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.

It has an impact on politics and governments because government are the ones that are directly asking for personal information.

Evaluating the impacts:

Are the impacts serious? Are they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are the impacts likely to lead to future problems?

The impacts are very serious because the privacy of the users and also the needs of the government are at stake. All the parties involved may be affected because if the information is given to governments, the social networks infringe with the privacy policy, while wif they don’t give the information, the government may have a lot of problems in finding certain people they are interested in, such as terrorists.

Conclusion: The consequences of this is the loss of privacy of the social network users to the government

Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Analysing ITGS Situations

Instructions: Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.

News article title: New York Times says Chinese hackers broke into its computers

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/31/tech/china-nyt-hacking/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_tech+%28RSS%3A+Technology%29

Brief description of situation: New York Times said that Chinese have carried out attacks to their own computer systems, breaking and stealing all the passwords of all the staff members, another thing is that The Wall Street reported that also that hackers have carried out also to their computers system. And finally The Times said that they were working with some experts to watch, study and finally expel aggressors.

Key stakeholders: The Wall Street Journal, Chinese hackers, Wen Family, FBI

IT system involved:

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3 Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance, 1.8 Globalization and cultural diversity, 1.9 Policies, 1.10 Standards and protocols, 1.11 People and machines and 1.12 Digital citizenship

Areas of social impact:

Economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.

Evaluating the impacts:

Are the impacts serious? Are they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are the impacts likely to lead to future problems?

Conclusion:

Who is responsible? What are the consequences? What are the alternatives? Is there an easy solution to the problem? 

Centro Escolar Solalto

Information Technology in a Global Society

Hardware Scenarios

FACTS

       Ss: 500

       Ts: 50

       As: 30

       Laptops: 20

       PCs: 32

       OS: win Xp, 2000, MO2003, MO2007, Winserver08

       ISP: 3Mbs

       Wi-Fi: 8routers/ 45 classes

       Upper grades bring their own Laptops

       Teachers are technically Challenged

SOLALTO

v  Ss: 350

v  Ts: 50

v  As: 12

v  Laptops: 50

v  PCs: 30

v  Os: Win7, Winserver8 ( 3 servers + 1 streamer)

v  Office: 2010

v  ISP: 6Mbit + 1Mbit

v  Wi-Fi: 13 routers/ 21 classes

v  IBSs: Bring their own laptops

v  Teachers are not Technically Challenged