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COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort's blogs
BT Week 4 - Strong Encryption should be restricted to licensed users only
By Bozena Tkaczyk October 22, 2015 - 1:23amBuilding trust is important for ensuring people everywhere can use technology with confidence. In a society where more and more personal and sensitive data is stored and share across digital networks, security and privacy are of utmost importance....BT Week 3 - Privacy is dead and it’s a good thing
By Bozena Tkaczyk October 21, 2015 - 12:49am“ … employees do not check their privacy rights at the office door. There is a right to privacy in the workplace, which has been upheld by Canadian courts and must be respected by public bodies as they consider what security controls...BT Week 3 - Privacy
By Bozena Tkaczyk October 21, 2015 - 12:41amSummarizing the data protection legislation for my regionBT Week 2 - Reflection Moral Obligations
By Bozena Tkaczyk October 21, 2015 - 12:37amIn my daily life, I am constantly faced with important questions about what to do. Some of this questions are very simple for me to answer while others are not. For example: Should I report a lost wallet, or keep the money? It’s not even a...BT Week 1 - Reflection Making Ethical Decision
By Bozena Tkaczyk October 21, 2015 - 12:31amWhat actions are right or wrong in particular circumstances? What are your justifications, foundations, principles for action? How do you decide between one course of action and another; how do you justify things that you know are probably...Week 5 - Reflection
By Leah Korganowski October 19, 2015 - 4:33pmThis week made me think about how I use intellectual property presently and made me conclude that my uses fall into a few particular categories.Music – In terms of music I don’t ever purchase songs. I tend to use YouTube and Songza to...COMP 607: Reflections on week 5
By nmas October 18, 2015 - 10:09amThe pyramid discussions and scenarios this week made me ponder about the relationship between morality, ethics and legality. While my mind defaulted to the concept where if something is illegal, it must be unethical, it clearly is not the case. I...Week 5: Pyramid Discussion: Whole cohort
By nmas October 18, 2015 - 9:42amThis is the area where the entire cohort discusses one or more of the scenerios in the pyramid discussion in Week 5Week 5: Pair 4 Pyramid Discussion
By nmas October 17, 2015 - 12:29pmYou purchase a copy-protected game that can be installed on only one machine. Because you are a sensible and careful computer professional, you use a piece of software that breaks the copy protection in order to make a backup copy in case the...Google book-scanning project legal, says U.S. appeals court
By nmas October 16, 2015 - 6:36pmA U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue.
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