jueves, 7 de marzo de 2013

Analysis #7



News article title: Why Facebook may want to track your location


Brief description of situation:
Facebook may be working on an app that will let your friends, or even complete strangers, know where you are at all times

Key stakeholders:
Facebook and Facebook users.

IT system involved:
A new app from Facebook for mobile devices that will track all the time your location, to make your friends know were are you and if they are near you.

Related issues of social and ethical significance:
privacy and surveillance, security. Makes that your location is public so anyone, including friends and strangers know where you are all the time. This could be helpful but can be harmfull because you will never hide from everybody.

Areas of social impact:
legal and cultural impact. In the legal poelpe need to has the option to turn on or off the app when they want, the app doesn’t has this option. In the cultural because the society will be more connected.
Evaluating the impacts:
This impacts are serious. Now everyone will know where u go and where you are going, you will fell like tracked every time. Every user will lose their privacy. And their security will be in risk every time.


Conclusion:
In my opinion  this new app will make more damage thaqn help because it is against the security and this will cause more kidnapps because everybody will know were are you going and located.

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