By:
Elizabeth Aleman
Amanda Caceres
Gabriela Redondo
Diana Vargas
#staywoke
The Internet and Millennials
Cont.
Internet Surveillance
Media Power
"Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct."
- Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kenned
Millennials and Social Media
Today's Laws
- Surveillance is understood as the purposeful monitoring of individuals by those in authority, whereas ‘participatory surveillance’ is a type of surveillance where people willingly keep watch on each other through social media
- For example, an anonymous focus group and an online survey of 81 Australians categorized as part of the Millennial Generation investigated their experience of both authority and participatory surveillance on Facebook, that is, their awareness of the level of surveillance they are under and their surveillance of others.
- The results reveal that this group is concerned about privacy and security for their personal information, though not always sure what they should do to ensure it, and that they are willing to access and distribute the personal information of others. They feel that protecting their information from individuals and the government is a greater concern than ensuring privacy from commercial entities. However, this group believes that a reduction in privacy, on and off online, is part of contemporary life, and giving up some information is necessary to participate in the online environment.
The world we live in- in which Google and Facebook now have far more power over privacy and free speech of most citizens than any king, president, or Supreme Court justice could hope for.
Preserving constitutional values requires a different balance of legal and technological solutions, combined with political mobilization that leads to changes in social norms.
Virtual stalking rather than a legitimate investigation therefore is an unreasonable search of a person.
Introduction
- Millennials are the first generation that has not known life without digital media
- Social media is one of the greatest changes to ever happen in the world of the internet
- Despite their “share everything” image, privacy still matters for millennials
- Millennials are the generation that least trust the NSA
- Social media such as Facebook has introduced a new dynamic into watching others
Cont.
- Today’s laws are not prepared to deal with the ever changing technologies and how they affect an individual’s right to privacy
- Courts have continually questioned whether social media was private or public
- Samuelson has argued that ‘people seem to crave popularity more than they fear the loss of privacy’.
- Facebook changes
- The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN specialized agency focusing on information and communication technologies (ICT), pioneered some of the early work in the field of cyber peace studies along with the Vatican and the World Federation of Scientists
- “Right to be Forgotten” - 2014 Court of Justice of the European Union decision Google Spain v AEPD
- Only so much power it has
- limited to domains vs domains from other countries
Security and personal privacy is often breached by private companies and government alike, why do millennials trade their privacy for the use and access of the internet?
Millennials - a person reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century
Internet privacy - the privacy and security level of personal data published via the Internet
Social Media - websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Computer and network surveillance - the monitoring of computer activity and data stored on a hard drive, or data being transferred over computer networks such as the Internet.
- The monitoring is often carried out covertly and may be completed by governments, corporations, criminal organizations, or individuals.