Amelia: Media Law and Literacy

  From Robllewellyn.com             Juan Enriquez compares our electronic footprint to a tattoo. Tattoos are permanent and often provide personal, intimate details about someone much like your online presence. What you post online can compile details about your personal life and can never be completely removed from the internet. In the last five years, the increase in technology, social media and telecommunication networks has only made it more difficult to hide from your electronic tattoo. One concept in particular, facial recognition, revolutionized the digital world. By posting a photo to any platform, third party companies such as Face.com, later bought by Facebook, compiles a database of faces from posted pictures. So not only is your information stored, but your physical identity. Because of this technology, serious problems such as stalking, identity fraud and predatory marketing are becoming more and more common. Facial Recognition from BBC.com  

Five Eyes taken from defensenews.com Although this concept was not the one I presented on, Five Eyes immediately intrigued me. This could be largely due to the fact that I had absolutely no idea this organization existed. Instead of focusing entirely on the organization's background information which has already been presented on, I wanted to take a look at how Five Eyes has been discussed in the news lately. For a brief background, The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The alliance was created in order to share information such as signals intelligence, military intelligence and human intelligence. There are certain regulations within a country that prohibit a government from spying on civilians, however there are no regulations that prohibit foreign countries from doing so.  The topic of the Five Eyes has made its way to current headlines in regards to concerns with the Chinese company Huaw