Privacy 

Today we want to maintain our privacy in the best manner. But we forget to take our precautions when surfing the internet and leave behind more digital track, enough track to reveal who we are. What causes this carelessness? 

When I log on the internet, first I check my e- post, and wthen I check my profile on Facebook . Popular forum requires registration, Otherwise you cannot send your message there. Then I open  my bank's website so I can pay my bills. Meanwhile, a tempting offer comes up during a commercial on one of the new webs I visit. So I decide to do some shopping online by using my credit card. Online shop offers to fill the questionnaire - no you do not order. Then I remember that I forgot to answer the e-mail I received last night, so I open my e-mail to take care of it. It's only been half an hour, but already I have left more of the digital tracks. Another clue to reveal who I am, my personality type and interests. And I'm not worried, because I do not give the consequences of leaving digital traces a thought. Information about Internet users is collected, processed, stored, and often no one is responsible for this is not the slightest responsibility. It Happens that the user does not even suspect that he composed a small electronic "file"

According to the advice of technology the amount of digital traces has increased because we communicate more and more over the web. An example is when I communicate via the web, and then our traces will be registrated and saved. This means that we can find out when the conversation took place and also the content of the conservation. 
Erichen write that cookies,these so called “information pods”, are necessary though they contains a lot of information about you and what you do on the internet, example your surf habits.

My  IP-adress will be registrated everywhere I go on the net. Hasselgård compare watching the Ip-address with watching telephone calls, this contains watching your intimate confidences. Though the IP-address is anonymous and can only be accessible for the police with a approval from a tribunal, it’s possible to find out more about the address according to
Erichen. When you send an e-mail, you’ve already disclosed your IP-address. The address can be disclosed either caused by bad safety on your computer or that the computer is provoked to give away its IP-address when you go online with the computer. If you have the IP-address, you can find out where is located. And according to  Erichen there are programs that can scan any computer that are online with an IP-address and then find out a lot about a person. 

To me it seems that IP addresses are no longer anonymous. If I was surfing the net just half an hour, and already leaving more digital traces. If it is so easy to find out about someone's personal life only with the digital traces we leave behind us, why are we not more careful when we surf and communicate online?

The Norwegian supervision of data’s has implanted a survey on people’s attitude to digital traces. The survey shows that people are less worried by abuse over their personal information that they leave surfing on the web. The reason that I don’t worry about the traces I leave behind, due to my ignorance. And that’s the reason why we don’t worry, our knowledge about digital traces are minimal. According to the technology advice, people don’t know the consequences this has for they own private information.
My point is that when it comes to laws and rules regarding personal information we have strong social and ethical norms, but not when it comes to the way we act on the web. We keep our information about ourselves close to our chest and we don’t sneak in other people’s personal information. 

In Article 8 of the European Convention on Human, it says: Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
It seems that this rule has not received proper footing when it comes to the life we live on the internet. According to Bing, the norms and rules when it comes to digital traces don’t exist because this is new for us. It has been a explosive technologic development, and the digital traces are useful. But since we don’t have developed attitudes to these traces, we don’t have ethical norms on this field. We cross borders because we easily have access on personal information. Weather this due to ignorance to the digital traces, curiosity or just simple cheekiness I think we can avoid thus if we developed ethical norms when it comes to the digital traces.

This video about Andy made me realize that there is endless information about me in the digital dossier, I can say that I have a private life? See it if you think you have a private life.

Ethics

PLAGIARISM

One must always remember that info, articles, texts, etc., located on the Internet is gathered or written by another person. It's not like that "internet" has created the text. Bottom line is there anyone who has copyright info and copyright on the Internet you can read about here. Is it stand out for me as a user of the Internet to use the free texts for various purposes? Absolutely not, and an example of what you see here. Here we see that there is a growing problem that students use information from the internet, and claiming they even wrote the text. But we also see in the article that there are systems to detect this type of cheating. And good is it, for it is not very fun to "compete" with others on an exam if they cheat. In addition, it's s absolutely not ethically justifiable to cheat on exams in this way. Not that it is ethically justifiable to cheat on the exam in any other way either then.
 Here's a video with a slightly interesting perspective on exam cheating, and a way to prevent this. 

But as it is said in the video, this is ethically acceptable when?

IKT and computers are more and more used in school today.
This raises some new challenges for the teachers.
How do we educate our pupils in using these tools? Are the pupils aware of the rules when it comes down to plagiarism? They are not.

 

The pros for this is all the pupils which frequently use the copy and paste function when they do their schoolwork, without thinking about if this is legal or not.
The cons are of course the pupils that prefer to write in their own words, rather than use copy and paste when they do their schoolwork.
It seems that some of the pupils think or believe that all the information on the internet  is "free" to use in whatever way they want, and a few of them do so.
 On the other hand, most of the pupils are aware that copying whole stories and presenting them as their own work is wrong, and they prefer to write their own stories instead.
As a teacher it is our responsibility to educate them in the rules and laws when it comes to copying, and plagiarism.
So that they are aware which rules to follow, and the consequences if they dont. Making sure that all pupils know the rules and laws concerning this issue is a good way to minimize plagiarism in school today.
Another challenge is how to know, or find out if a pupil has cheated and copied a story from the internet instead of writing it himself. 

There is some software available to check out this. It will probably have a preventive effect if we as teachers show the pupils that there are good tools easily available to reveal those pupils who cheat in this way.

Have any thoughts around this?