ITMG381 Week 1 Assignment

ITMG381 assignment week 1

Privacy is a concept that is rapidly evolving in relation to the most public of mediums, the Internet, which became even more concerning with social networking websites. In a recent California election, one ballot measure, Proposition 8, asked voters a question on same-sex marriage. Donors to the Prop 8 campaign found that their names, addresses, and amount of contribution were mashed up with Google Maps and thus rendered into a format showing the world a map image of donors' names, street addresses, and dollar contributions. All this data is public record information already, but still quite inconvenient to access. What are the side effects of this action?

Do not repeat the proposition in your response.  Address the question "what are the side effects" from a legal viewpoint. What are the IT tools that allowed the reconfiguration of data to expose privacy and do "you" think this should be legal? Why or why not?