Category: Ethics
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The Debate With Online Surveillance
The Debate with Online Surveillance The topic of online surveillance has long been an issue up for debate. According to Merriam-Webster, surveillance can be defined as, “close watch kept over someone or something,” (Merriam-Webster), https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surveillance. So that begs the questions, is there anything that is really, truly private that you can do on the […]
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Coaching and Consulting in Movies
Coaching and consulting seemingly go hand in hand. But in actuality, they are quite different. A coach is defined as someone who aids individuals or groups in maximizing their performance in pursuit of their goals. While a consultant builds a strategy for individuals or groups to implement for a shared goal or venture. Let’s say […]
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Orwell: The Right to Internet Privacy and Why There May Be Hope Yet (or Not)
Like most who attended high school in the States, I read George Orwell’s proverbial classic Nineteen Eighty-Four as a teenager, and (as every good eighteen-year-old in America should be) was frightened by the book’s implications and depictions of the cultism that can arise in a totalitarian society run by an omnipresent authority figure. Upon discovering […]
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Kiva: Using Crowd Sourcing to Serve the Underbanked
I chose to support non-profit micro lender Kiva by participating in a syndicated loan. The recipient, Milka, is a Kenyan corn farmer and mother of four who was looking to expand her farming operation buy purchasing hybrid seed corn, fertilizer and a solar lamp. https://www.kiva.org/lend/1214525 There are two primary reasons I chose this effort. I […]
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“Data, Privacy, and Personhood: A (Re-)view of Meg Leta Jones’s Ctrl+Z: The Right to Be Forgotten”
In music scholarship, the idea of infinite repeatability is one of the characteristics that separates recorded performance from “live” performance. For consumers, this means that one can (almost) always return to a favorite recording and play it as many times as one finds edifying, whereas the concert hall, opera house, or most any other performance […]