vanessa calhoun's List: Digital Citizen Presentation

•  Digital Citizenship    Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:                 

  a.	advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
  b.	exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
  c.	demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
  d.	exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

• Mining text messages from mobile phones, intercepting voice calls and emails, logging instant messages—even covertly turning on a mobile phone’s microphone so it can be used to record and transmit audio without the knowledge of its owner.
• The mobile phone eavesdropping technology appears similar to that offered by companies like England’s Gamma Group. Rather than conducting a wiretap via a telecom company, such tools allow authorities to lodge Trojan-like spyware on phones to mine data and record conversations.
• mobile phone surveillance technology
• MIT announced that they had developed an “urban war fighter” radar to detect movement through walls from up to 60 feet away.
• Security Tracking Devices,
• The technology may have been purchased to help fight crime, but it seems almost unavoidable that it will end up being used occasionally to commit crime, too.

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• First, data mapping has been simplified by Viridiana Rios
• Data mapping allows authorities to filter Google data about drug cartels and find out which cartels are operating
• in which territories.
• When authorities can analyze certain statistics and movements regarding drug cartels, the government can then design policies to address such movements and decrease violence.
• Second, social media has aided in improving safety in Mexico.
• networks could be created for citizens to safely (and anonymously) report cartel activity without fear of police corruption.
• technology is being used by common people to end media blackouts.
• technology helps bloggers to fill that niche anonymously.
• This information can then be used by researchers and authorities to fight cartel violence.

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