Cell Phones and Privacy

Prepaid cellphones could be used in many different ways. I know in my family my brother got a prepaid phone for his first phone just so he could make phone calls and become mature enough to get a real cellphone. They are good for young teens to have them for emergencies. Prepaid phones are good for people that cannot afford phone bills. Now a day to just buy a cellphone through companies is hundreds of dollars and that is not even to pay for the monthly bill.  The law should be able to control prepaid phones but not ban them because a majority of the people uses them for good reasons. We should keep the prepaid phones but they should be able to be registered for safety issues.

Location Tracking

Personally I do not believe that implanting computer chips is a good idea to put into children or teenagers because there could be many health risks to it. I understand that parents want to have their children safe but they could keep them safe in a different way. Even though little children do not know any better I feel as though putting computer chips into there body is taking away their own rights. If at a young age they are taken away there rights they wont know better when they are older.  If there was a bill in Congress to require ID chips in children under the age of 5 I would not support it because parents should not have to have chips in their children to know where they are. We have gone many years without computer chips why have them now? I would still not agree to have a senior who has Alzheimer’s to have a computer chip put into there body because it could possibly have worse side effects. I do feel as though in this circumstance if the family agrees to it have a GPS shoe but nothing implanted into his or her body. I feel as though everyone should have the right to his or her own privacy.
 

CS408-01 Assignment 3

Hi! My name is Amanda Zamis and I am currently a freshman. I am studying Communications Sciences and Disorders. I am taking a Computer Science class called Living in a Networked World: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I decided to take this class because I was interested in how much the internet impacts today's society. I am also interested to see how society will be like in a few years after more advances in technology. I have never made a blog before so I am very interested to see how this all works out.