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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
EOC Week 6
Supreme court Prayer
The separation of church and
state has been a big issue lately. Some people and groups feel offended and
like second class citizens when certain governments and places start am meeting
with a Christian prayer. A perfect example is with Susan Galloway and Linda
Stephens. One Jewish and an Atheist
sound this really disturbing. They said it created and bad atmosphere and felt
out casted based on their view on the God Question. Many theologians would quite convincingly
argue that an assumption of “one God” is itself sectarian, but the court has
set a different floor on that definition. Thirty-seven states have guidelines
for chaplains and/or guest prayer-givers that at the very least strongly
suggest (if not require) non-sectarian prayers, as do the guidelines of the
U.S. House of Representatives, which note that the body consists of “members of
many different faith traditions.”
Many
of the prayers offer at the opening of town council meeting in Greece, NY were
similarly worded. For years and years they were delivered only by a Christian
clergy, they would ask attendances to stand and bow their heads. They
frequently involved Jesus and the Holy Spirit. In 2011 the 2 sued over the
prayers and lost in the federal court. In 2012 the won in the 2nd
amendment U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. They ruled that the towns approach to
public prayer added to the endorsement of Christianity. After the ruling a layer for the town argued
that the 2nd circuit erred in
the using of the endorsement to decide whether the town officials had violated
the 1st Amendment. “American
are not bigots, and we can stand to hear a prayer delivered in a legislative
forum by someone whose views we do not agree with,” said Hungar. “That is the
tradition of this country and that is why it doesn’t violate the Establishment
Clause.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/07/supreme-court-prayer_n_4228715.html
I personally think that there should be a separation
of church and state. I think in public places that prayer should not be allowed
because not everyone has the same beliefs. It made me uncomfortable especially in
when it is in public places. If I wanted to pray I would go to church.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
EOC: Legal Issues involving the Internet
Legal Issues
involving the Internet
There are a lot of problems and issues surrounding the
Internet. One, Internet law is pretty new and they are a lot of questions and
problems that haven’t been set yet. I am going to discuss Identity Theft,
Online Gambling, and Privacy Laws
The first is issue which one of the biggest is Identify
Theft. Identity theft is where a person gets information and poses as you to
get money, credit, merchandise, and to use your identity to commit other
crimes. To obtain the persons info that use cracking, or surveying.. Surveying
is where the person guesses personal info about them. Simple questions like
mother maiden name, pet names, or spouses to gain access on their username and
passwords. There are better ways to protect your self, stronger passwords,
cookies, look at your credit score periodically. The reason identity theft is
hard because it can take a long time to figure out who stole your identity and
they have to a full investigation to prove that someone stole your identity and
it can take a lot of time to get your money your credit back, but surprisingly it is
still safer to give out your credit card number on the internet then to give
it to an unknown salesperson or waiter. 97% of all identity theft crimes
are caused from offline instances, not online. For instance, two places that identity
thieves get your information from are your mailbox, and your trash can. http://www.offthepagecreations.com/legal_issues_internet.php
The second issue is Online Gambling. Gambling
online falls into a legal grey area. It illegal in most of the U.S. the
prosecution and conviction of individual gamblers is hard to find because they
are gambling from home. It is illegal for a gambling Web site to operate within
the U.S. so that is why most online casinos are located in other countries.
There are about 70 countries that have legal online gambling. The reason online
gambling is hard to regulate because the US has gambling laws that are
different from other countries laws. Because a person is gambling online they
could be under age, or breaking some of the US gambling laws but it hard to
tell that because they are at home. Issues
of jurisdiction and sovereignty make gambling laws even murkier. The U.S. Wire
Wager Act makes it illegal to use an electronic wire method (which courts
generally agree includes the Internet) to transmit bets to places where
gambling is not allowed. So a casino set up in the Netherlands is breaking U.S.
law if a player in the U.S. plays their games. However, the U.S. doesn't really
have the legal authority to prosecute someone in another country. Since players
are almost never prosecuted either, we're left with an illegal act that
generally goes unpunished. Of course, if an off-shore casino decides to cheat a
player out of winnings, and online gambling is illegal in that player's
locality, the player will have a difficult time suing the casino. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/online-gambling2.htm
The last issue is
Privacy laws. Privacy laws are very difficult to track and are up for huge
debate. With everything being mobile and the Internet is everywhere. On our
phones, at work, at home, in our cars, and our tablet. Our Internet information
is everywhere. The debate is how do we keep our smartphones and keep our core
rights to privacy? Should we allow huge companies to obtain information about
us without breaking privacy laws? How do you regulate that? First, the key is to include
privacy and security from the very start while designing products and components.
This way we can use technology without technology using us. Second, we already
use firewalls and other approaches to limit who can reach our desktop
computers. We could engineer similar technical intermediaries for our new
devices. Third, privacy tools should be as simple to use as products
themselves. Finally, it is rare for technology to entirely solve the challenges
technology creates, so we need new privacy laws that are savvy and wise. There is much
work to do, but we can build an awesome future without trading away our human
need for privacy. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/09/08/privacy-and-the-internet-of-things/laws-can-ensure-privacy-in-the-internet-of-things. I think is hard to
regulate. On personal experience I do like that some things have info on me
because it is easy to look up things, but on the other hand how much personal
info are they allowed to get with our breaking laws. I think this topic is
going to be up for debate for a awhile and some of the laws regarding this
topic will always be changing.
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