Due:
Monday class: Friday, February 7
Wednesday class: Monday, February 10
Find and read an article, or academic paper, from a reputable source that discusses one or more privacy or security issues that arise from the collection of location data. Your article should be unique. It is your responsibility to make sure no one else in either section of this class is posting the same article. This assignment will be easier if you do it quickly! I will ask some of you to discuss your articles in our next class meeting.
Check the settings on your phone, (instructions for how to do this: on an Android device and iPhone). How many apps are/were you allowing to track your location? How many apps are/were you allowing to track your location all the time?
Create a post on this site. Go to https://socialethical.cs.unm.edu/wp-admin to login to the site. Your post should include the following:
- A short (1 paragraph) summary of the article, written in your own words
- A link to the article
- A short (1 paragraph) summary of what you found out about how your own location is being tracked, including whether or not you changed any settings.
- Add your post to the “Student Work” category (on the right side of the page) and the appropriate class section category (Monday or Wednesday).
This assignment will be graded as follows:
- 25 points: article uniqueness and quality
- 25 points: post fulfills all listed requirements
- 50 points: quality of writing
A good place to search for academic papers is the ACM Digital Library: dl.acm.org.