Robert Dewald

9/21/10

• Girl Sues School for Invasion of Privacy
• A 17 year old high school student in Pennsylvania just received $33,000 after suing her school. This was following the confiscation of the girl's phone during class and the later finding of nude images of the girl on the phone.
• The stakeholder's in this case are high school students as well as teachers and administration of high schools.
• This specific case relates to privacy as a part of Social & Ethical Issues.
• This article relates to me because I have my own personal cell phone.
• To solve the issues at hand, a rule should be implemented that if a student's cell phone is confiscated by a teacher or administrator, the person who confiscates it does not have permission to look through the files on the phone i.e., pictures, videos, etc

9/17/10

• Social Networks Predict Epidemics
• People could possibly be able to predict future epidemics by studying and investigating the information posted on the different social networks available to citizens.
• This article relates to the "people & machines" aspect of the listed Social & Ethical Issues.