Privacy
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6 Links That Will Show You What Google Knows About You
Article In this article, there are 6 links featured that, when clicked, give you a peek into the data Google has...
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Adblocking: How About Nah?
Article In this article, the author discusses the ethics of using an ad blocker, and highlighting the position that ad blockers give users...
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Advertising is a cancer on society
Article In this article, the author argues that modern advertising is similar to how cancer takes over the human body. After...
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American Spies: how we got to mass surveillance without even trying
Article This article is a book review of American Spies by Jennifer Stisa Granick. It describes the legal complications surrounding Internet privacy in the United...
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A Message To Our Customers
Article This letter from Apple to its customers explains why Apple refused to comply with the FBI's request for a "backdoor" to...
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Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?
Article This article discusses a 2019 keynote address by Attorney General William Barr in which he argued that information security "should not...
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Catholic Officials on Edge After Reports of Priests Using Grindr
Article This article describes the reports of Catholic clergy using the hookup app Grindr by the conservative Catholic blog The Pillar. Editors...
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Dialogue Group 10
Dialogue Group This dialogue group meeting prompt was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues Course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and...
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“Everything as a service” is coming—but we’re not there quite yet
Article This article discusses some of the challenges in moving towards cloud computing as a service. One issue mentioned is privacy and...
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Facebook Knew I Was Gay Before My Family Did
Article This article tells the story of a closeted gay Facebook user who received targeted ads offering assistance with coming out. The...
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Group Project 03: A Visual Guide to Security and Privacy
Group Project In this group project, students in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department are...
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Guardian of the GPL: Online advertising is becoming “a perfect despotism”
Article In this article, the author provides an overview of Eben Moglen (Guardian of the GPL)' s thoughts on why online...
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Article In this article, the author tells the story of how Target learned to identify when women are pregnant to target...
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How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
Article This article discusses how limits must be put on surveillance in order to maintain a healthy democracy. The author poses...
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Pillar Investigates: USCCB gen sec Burrill resigns after sexual misconduct allegations
Article This article describes how Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, Catholic priest and former general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference, was accused of sexual...
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Privacy Fundamentalism
Article In this article, the author argues that there are alarmist privacy arguments out there and explains why one by Farhad...
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Reading Quiz 12
Reading Quiz This reading quiz was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Notre...
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The Convenience-Surveillance Tradeoff
Article In this article, Adrienne LaFrance discusses how Americans view the tradeoffs between privacy and surveillance based on a recent. Pew study....
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The New Age of Surveillance
Article In this article, the author discusses how the emergence of the Internet of Things is ushering in a new age...
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To catch a priest
Article In this article, the author speculates how cell phone data was used to demonstrate that Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill was using...
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Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism
Article In this article, Ian Bogost provides an overview of the history of business intelligence. While the uncannily-appropriate nature of the targeted...
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Who Watches the Watchers? Lecture Slides
Lecture / slides Slides for Lecture 23 of Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department. In this lecture,...
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Why The U.S. Government And Big Tech Disagree On Encryption
Video This video has the following description: Encryption takes data like a text message or email and converts it into code to...
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
Article From the article description: "The internet is a tracking and monitoring machine. We will ceaselessly self-track and be tracked. We’re expanding...
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Writing Reflection 05: Exposure of Anonymity?
Writing Reflection In this writing reflection for the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department, students are...
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Writing Reflection 10: Hackers and Leakers
Writing Reflection In this writing assignment for Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department, students are asked...