OWN REFLECTION

On this ITGS second term I have learned how to analyze the cases in a better way.
-I have improve my writting form using more ITGS terminology.
-I also have learned important information about social networks and their personal manipulations
-The correct use of databases
-NASA situation and their new technologies and the drone system.
-More specific details about the IT system processes
-More developed solutions to the cases
-The extensive variety on type of networks
-Finally, I have learned how the networks work, the options from applying and making use of them, the extensive networks system as for example the regional networks.

Eight-Year-Old on TSA Terrorist Watchlist Gets Frisked

ESSAY *4


Describe one social/ethical concern related to the IT system.

One social ethical concern it could be Reliability and Integrity relationing it with the IT system that may be the computer with all the information of the name of the persons on the TSA. So this are related because in the TSA the name of this Little kid appears like a terrorist and person that is dangerous so this is not good for the reputation of the kid because he is just a kid not a murder, and also he was not borned when september 11 happens, so this is unfair for the kid for his integrity, and also it is not funny to every time you fly to get like arrested by a Little time because you are on a terrorist list, just because your name match with the name of a dangerous person





Describe the relationship of one primary stakeholder to the IT system.

So the stakeholders here are the kid and his family and the TSA and thecomputer system, this are related because of the information of the TSA on the system of the computer it appears the name of this Little kid that maches with the name of a dangerous person, so this causes that this Little kid tries to fly he is stoped by the pólice and arrested because they think he is dangerous because they think he is dangerous, but he doesnt, its just a match with the name, an error in the system








Describe, step by step, how the IT system works.





This IT system work lik this, first you search for the name of the person that is dangerous, you see why he is dangerous, you putt he name in the list, so the computer sabe all the information of this person and order it with the other names. then that is organized the names is divided in Dangerouse, can fly and others. Then all the information that is well organized is passed to all the other computers that have this thing called TSA, so here they can see if somebody is dangerous or not.





Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical concern described in Criterion A.





The relationship is that because of the error that is in the sysmet of the TSA, everytime the kid wants to fly he cant because they think is dangerous because his name matches with the name of a dangerous person, so this affect in his social ethical concer because it is affecting the reliability and Integrity of the kid making people think bad about him.





Evaluate at least three impacts of the social/ethical issues on the relevant stakeholders.





Relliability and Integrity, People and machines, standards and protolos or maybe anonimity. The first one because its getting to this Little kid a bad image of him so this is ruining his reputation, the second one because the error in system of the TSA is scruing the life of the kid and of many people when they fly or in other ways or times, and maybe anonimity because everytime he travel people want to be calm ando to nobody bothers them but with this errot in the TSA it will make it to be stoped all the time and to disturb people because they think they are dangerous.





Evaluate one solution that addresses at least one problem identified in Criterion C.





The solution for the problema its to improve the error in the system, and to change it to a better one that has like more specificated information of the dangerous people and saying more caracteristics of them so in this way they will not be disturbing everyone that has the same name, only the real guy that is dangerous.


http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/eight-year-old-on-watchlist/

NASA to encrypt data after its latest laptop loss

ESSAY *3
The article is about the new security method proposed by the NASA that consists in encrypting the laptops to prevent from possible thieves that can get their personal information. It has been frequent over the last years and the managed information on these laptops is part from national security area.

Social and Ethical Issues:

Security is the principal issue on this case because the stored information on NASA computers is really important and contains too many specific details about new technologies and human resources. But we are also talking about Us Government Administration that in association with NASA share the international transport of weapons and nuclear equipment information from the country.

It is National Security problem and possible copying of methods or processes from the beneficiate entity that could probably send the thieves. The possibility that other enemy countries are involved would be critical in some privacy aspects from USA controlling system from information.

Areas of Impact:

The area of impact is Legal because the responsible people from stealing this laptop and especially this important information could be judged for threating the United States national security, surpassing the regulations from the law.

NASA has been affected in too many aspects as the politics from the entity, classification from employees, new technologies, IN-PROCESS technologies, specific and secret immovable from work, etc. All these aspects lead the case to the legal impacts, the information had been stolen and can accuse to critical effects, the case must be investigated and analyzed.

IT System:

Inputs: Laptops codes and serial numbers identification and classification, also encryption program development or purchase.

Process: Organize laptops importance, depending on their classification; configure the computer to meet the minimum requirements from encryption. Encrypt the laptops: Configure MCSS compliance, install a robust password, install the dual boot operating system, configure DNS settings depending on what are your preferences.

Storage: Updated system, encryption passwords and codification including the type of Upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. Users profile data saved.

Outputs: Secure information on the laptops, almost impossible access from hackers or intentional steal from information from other entities.

Stakeholders:

Primary: NASA because is the direct affected from the case.

Secondary: Us Government (Export administration regulations), the ones who have stolen the laptops and the personal and other workers from NASA.

Solution to the issue:

The solution is included on the case, and is basically the encryption from the computers, but could be to redesign their organization methods and itinerary from work. This could include GPS localizer on each laptop and inaccessible chips on the laptops that contain all the information and couldn´t be find on each computer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20343745

So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman

ESSAY *2
Describe one social/ethical concern related to the IT system.

Privacy is the social/ethical aspect I am going to relate to this article. Because by having a drone over your house, this will imply that they could use it for violating your privacy right. How can they violate that right? By taking aerial pictures from the drone into what is happening inside the house.

Describe the relationship of one primary stakeholder to the IT system.

One primary stakeholder that appears in this article is the couple that is being affected primary by the drone. The relationship exists when the person flying the drone decides to over-fly that couple’s backyard. After independently deciding what they will use the drone for.

Describe, step by step, how the IT system works.

Input: the drone is commanded by a pilot that is located in the ground from a remote control.

Storage: The UAV films through the camera already installed and displayed the images on the control remote commanded by the pilot.

Output: The pilot gathers the information took by the camera. 

Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical concern already described.

This relationship will be between the privacy issue and the unmanned aerial vehicles (drone). What will happen is that the drone by overpassing to the aerial space that covers the couple´s backyard will be allowed to do that because no law forbids that the drone flies over because "the air is a public highway". But when the drone uses its camera for taking pictures inside the house, that is considered privacy invasion and that is, in fact, against the law. But for now there are no restrictions of flying over houses ever since you don’t abuse and don’t interfere with the privacy of other people.     

Criterion C --- Evaluate at least three impacts of the social/ethical issues on the relevant stakeholders.

 There are some social/ethical issues that come along with the stakeholders. The privacy that we already discussed, it tells that the drone by taking pictures from inside the house is violating a law and it can be penalized by authorities. The people and machines relationships can cause problems along their development because sometimes the machines are used based on bad intentions. At last point, the policies that involve technology are not strongly based upon law but when the machines that people use violate any law they could be penalized.

Evaluate one solution that addresses at least one problem identified in Criterion C.

I could say that one solution could be creating new laws based on the technological usage and what fines could be imposed if any of these laws is violated. There is only one big problem with this proposal, technology is always developing and at rates even faster every time, so it would be silly and useless to create laws preventing this kind of technological use. The solution I would give is: that you can use technological discoveries anywhere the law allows it but when it is affecting the privacy and security of an individual or group of people, this has to be penalized and fined, before something worst happens. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/so-this-is-how-it-begins-guy-refuses-to-stop-drone-spying-on-seattle-woman/275769/

CASE 2:DATABASES

Process from Creating Databases
1. Organize the different classifications that include the animal, supplier, type of payment, species, health and customer specifications.
2. Create the relations between different areas as for example animal id on the animal and customer sections.
3. Fill the tables with animals, customers, health, payment, species and supplier specifications. On the animals section, specify if they are exotic animals or not.
4. Create the forms from each of the sections and fill 5 of them by each topic.
5. Create the reports in which all the information appears.
6. Specify the exotic animal sales on the month.

Some examples from Tables, Forms and reports.

Social Network Issues

Social Networks
ESSAY *1

The article is about the unknown importance from whatever you like on Facebook have in relation with the ads that appear on our wall right side, and how do their system qualifies you related to political, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and religion aspects.

Social and ethical issues:

Privacy is the most important and remarkable issue on this case because almost every Facebook users, don´t know anything about this reports or classifications applied on what they like. This means that every kind of information from your qualities could be published on social statistics or general information from Facebook users and this is a violation to privacy.

Security could be also included, but in this case the probabilities from bad consequences on this term are minimal.

Areas of Impact:

It is related to the Legal area because there could be some point in which people demand explicit changes in what can or cannot be inferred algorithmically from their behavior on the network. Facebook must have certain control from the information they manage about users, some of their sign up privacy politics could be contradicted with these types of classifications that their systems administrate.

If there is the case in which someone don´t agree with these reports about people´s information and make the demand, Facebook could be very affected in how people recognize the site and construe the security from being subscripted or registered.

Moral area of impact could be established as the second with more magnitude on the case. This is because it is not acceptable for some people to be classified in a way they aren´t and just supporting on what they “like” on Facebook. Based on the ads that appear on their profile, determine their orientations and friend´s ideas about them. It is true that they are using advanced technologies and could have an approximate data about their user’s orientations but it is not morally correct.

IT System:

Inputs: “Likes” from Facebook users on different pages, famous people sites and general topics.

Process: Facebook system is organized in a specific way and codified to give the necessary reports from user´s likes. After the users like something the operative system works algorithmically. For example, it’s possible they have these specific algorithmic specifications.  

·        Heterosexual men “likes” classification (x, y, z) pages. Homosexual men “likes” classification. (A, b, c) pages, including TV show Desperate Housewives or the musical Wicked.

·        On politics, Republicans “likes” classification (x, y, z) pages. Democrats “likes” classification (a, b, c) pages. Examples could be the Facebook pages from the presidential candidates or political party magazines and sites.

·        Christian people “likes” classification could be everything related to the bible, the pope and distinct catholic or protestant churches pages. Atheists “likes” classification could be related with no religious sites, importance to just humanity, no god for them. Islam “likes” classification could relate to the Coram, Mahomet, etc.

After analyzing these selections the server decides what perspective the qualified users have and for example in this case if they are heterosexual or homosexual, Christian, Islamic or atheist and republicans or democrats. So then, the results are translate to different databases and published for Facebook administrators, having a complete report and perspective about the users.

Storage: The information from the users: politic inclination, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. The characteristics from the pages used by Facebook, approximate results from the analyzed people aspects, graphics and data tables automatically compared with other sites on the network and regional qualities according to their location users and their selections. In general the databases form the users with their specific qualified aspects.

Outputs: The reports transmitted by the algorithmic system from Facebook. Some approximate results.

And basically how people behaves on Facebook and very probable how their personality is.

Stakeholders:

The primary stakeholders are Facebook users because are the directly involved on the case, their privacy, orientations and inclinations, security, and perspective are some of the aspects that relate them with these Facebook social-technology methods.

The secondary stakeholders include:

Publicity agencies that are related to the ads that appears on the user’s profile. They probably have established contracts with Facebook and this method give them some benefits as more recognition and business major involvement.

Facebook that is the responsible from these user´s analysis don´t have anything to loose and to the contrary they might have economic benefits.

Cambridge Team that is related to the case because they are informing about how Facebook work with people selections.  

Solution to the issue:

Realize different surveys on Facebook, specifying what are they doing with what people like, and how are they classifying the information. Then analyze the results classifying them by interested people keeping with this analysis, non interest people and people that disagree with the system. Finally keep the methods or avoid them depending on the results to prevent an abuse to privacy.

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml