Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Article


So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman
Topic: Legal

Social and ethical concern related to the IT system
¥      Privacy because is affecting the privacy of the couple just by spying them, so they could know everything about the couple, by knowing that they can kidnap the couple, they are going to be in trouble and maybe go to jail.
Describe the relationship of one primary stakeholder to the IT system.
¥        Couple and the drone, because the couple has been spied by the drone so they could know everything about from the  couple, and the drone indirectly is also affected because they can be in trouble, and after getting judge they could go to jail.

The IT concepts and processes
Describe step by step, how the IT system works
1.       A remote control send signal to the drone to start flying.
2.       The drone is flying.
3.       The remote control send signal for the drone to go to the couple’s house.
4.       The drone is in the house of the couple.
5.       The remote control send signal to the drone to start spying the couple.
Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social and ethical concern described in Criterion A.
¥         The relationship is that every signal that the remote control sends to the drone is a step that is going to affect the couple. Spying is the main factor that cause the couple to feel like harassed because are invading their privacy, so is a point for the couple to demand what is happening them and maybe the one that is controlling the drone go to jail.

Social and ethical issues
Privacy, Surveillance, and Security because the drone is spying the couple and could know everything about the couple so that affect the privacy and surveillance could be the things that the drone needs to spy the couple, like the materials, and security because every people needs to be secure in everything but always to be alert but they need their own security and privacy.

Evaluate one solution that addresses at least one problem identified in Criterion C.
Demand what is happening and hire some agent to resolve the case from the couple, so the couple is going to know exactly where does the drone come from and from whom, to evaluate certain solutions to put in evidence. 

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Essay 4


How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Brief description
Basically this article talks about Target that is a store where everything you want you are going to find it, like electronics materials, etc.  Also talks about some brief periods in a person’s life when old routines fall apart and buying habits are suddenly in flux. One of those moments the moment, really — is right around the birth of a child, when parents are exhausted and overwhelmed and their shopping patterns and brand loyalties are up for grabs. But as Target’s marketers explained to Pole, timing is everything. Because birth records are usually public, the moment a couple have a new baby, they are almost instantaneously barraged with offers and incentives and advertisements from all sorts of companies. Which means that the key is to reach them earlier, before any other retailers know a baby is on the way. Specifically, the marketers said they wanted to send specially designed ads to women in their second trimester, which is when most expectant mothers begin buying all sorts of new things, like prenatal vitamins and maternity clothing. “Can you give us a list?” the marketers asked.

 IT system involved
Target, Pole and all the people because Pole and Target Company are talking about that the birth record are usually public, the moment when a couple has a new baby, they are almost instantaneously barraged with offers and incentives and advertisements from all sorts of companies. So target tells that if a person wants something in Target you are going to find what you want they have all.

Social and ethical significance
Reliability and integrity because they are talking about when a couple has a new baby, so they are thinking only where they can find and buy stuffs that has any offers for their new baby, Target said that they have what people need, so that’s integrity because people may go to target and when they buy there, so any people was involucrate and integrated to Target.

Areas of impacts  
Environmental because are talking about what does people make, when they have a new baby, so that refers to all the people. Psychological because they what does people think about having a baby, so they sale any products for mothers like prenatal clothes or any other things, so Target reduce the prices and every people would like to buy there so they are going to have more customers.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Essay 3


Eight-Year-Old on TSA Terrorist Watchlist Gets Frisked
Brief Description
This article talks a bout a guy that is 8 years old, that his name is Mikey Hicks that is a Cub Scout in Camden, New Jersey, is a frequent flyer who can’t seem to get a break because he shares a name with another Michael Hicks who has drawn suspicion from the Department of Homeland Security. This is because they have a list about 1600 people named Mikey Hicks so all the people named like this are receiving this treatment every time they fly.

IT System Involved
TSA are the ones involved because they have to investigate who is the guy that has drawn suspicion from the Department of Homeland Security and also the family from Mikey Hicks the eight year old guy.

Social and ethical significance
Surveillance because the TSA have to investigate who is the guy that has drawn the suspicion from the department of Homeland Security, also to start watching what does the family from Mikey Hicks do against this situation.

Areas of impacts
Cultural because is affecting a lot of people from the united states that are named Mikey Hicks so its affect the family from theirs. Legal because you can demand that they are watching and investigating about your case if you are the one that has drawn suspicion from the Department of Homeland Security.

Essay 2


NASA to encrypt data after its latest laptop loss
Brief description
This news is about that a laptop and documents were stolen from a locked vehicle of one of its employees at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. The machine was password protected, but the agency acknowledged that the information might still be accessible to hackers since it was not encrypted. As a result, NASA has warned its workers to watch out for bogus messages.

IT System Involved
NASA is the one that is involved because are the ones that are suffering because some important documents and laptop has been stolen from a locked vehicle and the machine was password protected but is not enough protected so the hackers can unscramble very easy this machine and have access to it.

Social and ethical significance
Privacy and anonymity because by the stolen laptop and the documents the hackers may know a lot of important things from the NASA and also it could be security because the NASA need to improve their password protected for the hacker to be difficult to access to it.

Areas of impacts
Legal and political because the laptop and the documents were stolen the NASA should demand that and the hackers are going to be affected just because they were doing things that they don’t have to be doing. 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Essay 1


More Privacy Perils: Facebook Data Is Greater Than The Sum Of Your Likes

Brief description
This article talk about the app of facebook that, in more like you gave to a page talking about rarely topics (related to gays) in the case of religion is going to think that the person that have liked the page may be gay or not. Creates a lot of stereotypes in the people involved.

IT system involved
The ones that are involved in this privacy peril are all the users from facebook because are the ones that the other people may think they are gay just because  they are giving like to any page, they create a lot of stereotype on the person affected.

Social and ethical significance
Privacy and anonymity because every people can see what things you liked on facebook and what is the meaning of the thing you liked, and because of that they can start to create stereotype from your own. Intellectual property because they are criticizing about what you think from the page you liked with the stereotypes and that is and effect on what you think about the page you liked.

Areas of Impacts
Psychological and morally may be the area affected just because they are thinking you are gay and that is against the religion and against the people morality. Because you just liked a page about that, but doesn’t mean you are gay because of that, Stereotyping is really bad in this case, because they are creating a bad looking to the people.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Database (Case 2)




  • At least I learned how to create tables, forms, relations, etc. With any information we know how to distinguish a name, a title, a number and what categories owed to everything. So we made an exercise that we nee dto create a database for the suppliers of all the information of some animals.

  • My conclusion is that this program is really imporotant to know how to manage becasue we can use it for the life, and to do works on there that are importants for us, and also is important because some company can tell you to create a database with any information they have, so your are allowed and able to do it without any complication.