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TED TALK
Privacy and Revenge Pornography
I listened to Darieth Chisolm discuss how our privacy is violated even when we give consent for it and how it can later come back to haunt us with new technology that is used for revenge porn. I have always been aware that what we put out on social media can harm us in the future since everything is highly accessible during this new era. We have to be careful with who comes across our pages and what their real intentions might be. A lot of online profiles have been using disguising techniques to capture and bait young adults into thinking they are someone who they are not, this scary tactic is also known as "cat-fishing" someone into believing they are someone else. These accounts have been used to target, harm, embarrass, and expose individuals and publish personal information and messages about them without having their consent.
During the Ted Talk, she discussed what revenge pornography is and how it is being used to threaten and force individuals into doing something against their own will by threatening them with exposing personal photos and messages that they do not wish to be surfaced on the web. I remember a few months ago I was reading an online published article about a High School teacher who was being threatened by her ex boyfriends with graphic photographs that she had sent to him while they were in a romantic relationship. This teacher was an adult and was capable of making her own decisions and had sent photos to her boyfriend at the time, without thinking that anyone would ever be able to see or use these photos. Her ex ended up exposing her photos online where the High School was later notified about this and she was fired from her job of 6 years because a student had come across this photo. It is still a debate whether or not she should have been fired from her position because of this problem which was out of her control and was something she was not able to prevent because of the threats that she was given. We live in a scary world where everyone can gain access to anyones information and privacy within seconds. We have to be careful and alert of who comes across our profiles and what the consequences are and we should also be educated of what our rights are, especially
online.
Privacy and Revenge Pornography
I listened to Darieth Chisolm discuss how our privacy is violated even when we give consent for it and how it can later come back to haunt us with new technology that is used for revenge porn. I have always been aware that what we put out on social media can harm us in the future since everything is highly accessible during this new era. We have to be careful with who comes across our pages and what their real intentions might be. A lot of online profiles have been using disguising techniques to capture and bait young adults into thinking they are someone who they are not, this scary tactic is also known as "cat-fishing" someone into believing they are someone else. These accounts have been used to target, harm, embarrass, and expose individuals and publish personal information and messages about them without having their consent.
During the Ted Talk, she discussed what revenge pornography is and how it is being used to threaten and force individuals into doing something against their own will by threatening them with exposing personal photos and messages that they do not wish to be surfaced on the web. I remember a few months ago I was reading an online published article about a High School teacher who was being threatened by her ex boyfriends with graphic photographs that she had sent to him while they were in a romantic relationship. This teacher was an adult and was capable of making her own decisions and had sent photos to her boyfriend at the time, without thinking that anyone would ever be able to see or use these photos. Her ex ended up exposing her photos online where the High School was later notified about this and she was fired from her job of 6 years because a student had come across this photo. It is still a debate whether or not she should have been fired from her position because of this problem which was out of her control and was something she was not able to prevent because of the threats that she was given. We live in a scary world where everyone can gain access to anyones information and privacy within seconds. We have to be careful and alert of who comes across our profiles and what the consequences are and we should also be educated of what our rights are, especially
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