# 9 : Google's street view violates privacy

Over millions of people are using website Google. People even usually say “Googling” which means that they surfer on the internet. There are many services on this website, such as finding direction, website, book, or weather. Street View is one of the services on website Google. We cannot deny that it is a very useful service. For example, we can preview the road condition that we want to go; also, we are able to understand and to learn the way of destination the direction is complicated to find. Sometimes, the address does not indicate what I want to find in the map. However, if we know this service, Street View, we can notice before.

On the other hand, there is a critical problem on Google’s street view, which is privacy. By using this, we can see anywhere we want; it does not matter it is even a private property, important military spot, or sensitive establishment, hospital, prison, or women’s shelter. According to Ella in Techno News, “A Swiss court has ruled that Google is breaching citizens’ right to privacy with its Street View service and should take greater steps to obscure people caught by its cameras.” According to Daniel, this service might be able to invade the possibility of “Potential tourists” to show the region on the internet. Other countries, France and Israel, are also afraid that the Street View provides information to terrorists.

Of course, Google’s Street view makes our lives more convenient and easy. However, I am questioning that “Do we have to use this service to just get temporary easiness?” “Aren’t we living without this?” I think Google Corporation has to consider about privacy problem on the service.

#8: Internet Safety with Children

On the internet safety, I found, there is a difference between South Korea and The United States. My country, South Korea, strongly filters and blocks the violated and sexual website to protect children. For some website, they have to type in their identification to access as adult. However, in America, there is no limitation to search or to access to these materials that I mentioned; which means everyone, including children, can easily find these materials. It was shocked for me, and I asked own-myself “Is this country just pursuing freedom without thinking about the effect to a child?”

Children learn better and faster than adults. Why? They do not have basic knowledge about what they are trying to learn. That means that they just get it purely without analyzing that this is right or wrong. By developing the internet, it is easier to get information. Therefore, children are easily searching on internet whatever they want. On the internet, children are going to believe and trust everything from sexual issue to political issue without filtering the information is right or wrong.

 By increasing the usage of the internet, the internet is becoming important thing in the future; so, we cannot prevent that children use the internet. Even, we sometimes have to teach them how to use it. The point that we need is that we have to start appropriate education and protection for our children. Recently, there are many programs to protect children from the illegal stuff. However, in my opinion, it is not enough to protect our children from them. We need a specific government action like my country doing.

I believe that children are the most important asset for our brilliant future. Although we get a little inconvenient due to the protection of children on internet, we have to dedicate our interruption on this.  

#7 : Visual Analysis

           

As my one of the topics, internet safety, this picture is able to be a good example. Basically, there are a baby and an adult. The adult is whispering to the baby that “Sometimes people lie…” “Even on the internet.” At the same time, to hear about it, the baby is really surprising about it. Also, there is an explanation about this situation as small letter.

Basically, in this situation, we can predict that a baby indicate a child or a person who is not fully educated about the internet or the society. Those people are considered as who easily believe and trust the information from the internet no matter whether it is true or not. In addition, an adult might be indicating who is able to do filtering whether the information can trust or not. The adult is telling the truth about internet to the baby, so we can see that the baby is surprising.

Next, about letter, they use exclamation mark to make sure indicating a baby is surprising. Also, to emphasize the letter, internet, red color and bigger letter is used. Because other letters, such as additional information, is not more important than “Internet” or “Sometimes people lie…,” they use small size for them.  

            Using a baby on the visual symbol is the best choice to announce about internet safety. Usually, we think that a baby is always protected from bad things. Because of this, it can be fully explaining to reader the message, internet safety.

#10: Is Password enough to protect your ID?

Today, we are able to use the internet everywhere with Free-Wi-Fi service or your cell phone by many devices, such as computer, PDA, or Ipad. In this way, internet users are increasing by time. However, the internet is not always fulfilling our lives. On the internet, there is a serious problem, which is ID theft. 

Most internet users, who have account on the internet, are thinking that their accounts are safe, but it is wrong. ID theft is occurred everywhere and anytime without their knowledge. The ways to theft ID is going to be professional and various. Even, sometimes, the companies, which protect from ID theft, fail to prevent from the crime.

Obama, the president of the United States, is thinking it is necessary more than Password. The news about this policy says “One of the problems in this issue is that people make the password complicating enough.” Additionally, “some 11.7 million Americans have been victimized in the last two years.”

The internet is becoming closer to our lives, and people try to save their information in their computer and in their account. Personally, it is not enough to save our information with just Password from the crime. Like Obama said, we need double or more protection instead of Password.

#6- which one are you going to choose?

By developing the internet technology, we can do many things on the internet, such as shopping, communicating with friends, or searching for what you want. Definitely, it makes our lives convenient and easy. On the other hand, our privacy stuffs are easily exposed and attacked by many application and software that we are using on the computer.

Here is a confusing question whether privacy or convenient. A year ago, Facebook started to do News Feed service which is posting the news if the person has registered as friend. Some people believed that it is violating privacy because they do not want to be posted some news or pictures to their friends, but it is automatically announced. On the other hand, we cannot deny that it is obviously a convenient service because we can easily hear our friend’s news unless visiting the each friend's Facebook homepage.

On the internet, we always wish to be quicker, easier, and more conveniently. As much as we want to be quicker, easier, and more conveniently, the service or software also needs to collect our personal information. As a result, we have to put in our privacy more on internet, and the danger of violating privacy is going to be higher. Consequently, we have to realize that we cannot have only the benefit side. So, now, we have to make a decision for this.
What is your choice in this situation whether to protect privacy or to be convenient? 

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