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☆Question
Should individuals sacrifice a degree of privacy for the convenience
and benefits of technology, or should stricter regulations be implemented to
protect user data?
☆Let’s Think
Do research on the following questions and discuss them with others.
1.
What is Alyssa’s point? Provide
a case in point.
2.
What is David’s point? Provide
a case in point.
3.
Who do you agree with? Share
your opinion.
☆Hints for Points
1.
The Internet is a wild west. Laws
regulating activities that can do harm to people and the world are almost non-existent.
It is wrong.
2.
We need laws to restrict some
activities like cyberbullying, disseminating virus, plagiarism, and identity
theft.
3.
It is too late. Personal
information of most citizens is already out, and once it is out, it cannot be
wiped out even if it is deleted.
4.
Strengthening technology to
prevent problems is more practical.
5.
Hackers have enough skills to
infiltrate almost any system. They do not bother most people because most of
them are not so evil.
6.
It is a moral issue in the end.
There is not key that cannot be broken. We must make a society where keys are
unnecessary.
☆Responses for Ideas
and Expressions
Response 1: I think that loss of personal privacy to some extent is
a necessary evil. We cannot use basic internet services such as social media,
online subscriptions, and online shopping without giving up some of our privacy.
Especially, free online services are provided in exchange for our personal
information. When we make an account of a social media, for instance, we type
in our name, e-mail address, and some other information of ours. The company providing
the free service sells the information we gave it as to other companies seeking
customers. Then, a few days later, we start getting e-mail ads from shops we do
not know. It is somewhat inconvenient to sort out the mailbox full of ads, but
we cannot help using the services to stay informed, communicate, and do other
activities, although we need to be careful about protecting our lives and
financial data. (148 words)
Response 2: I believe that international laws regulating activities
handling personal data is necessary for contingency situations. The case in
point is recent Japanese administrations. They have been linking as many
personal data as possible to MyNumber cards, digitalized social security number
cards, while the system is vulnerable to data leak. The reason is corruption. Politicians
are bought by the IT general contractors, which get huge IT projects from the
government. Although the fundamental defect of the system has already been
causing troubles to thousands of people, including potentially fatal ones, the
government will not end this project. It even plans to link the card to the
universal healthcare system by eliminating the paper card, which has no
problem. This can expose all the citizens’ medical history to third parties
like government officials, business personnel, ill-intentioned individuals or
even spies. To avoid such situations, we need to set redlines. (147 words)
☆Response plan
Topic Sentence:
Supporting Details:
Conclusion:
Write
your response in 10 minutes. Show each other your responses. Write down
questions or suggestions to each other’s response.
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