...Technology Acts Paper MPS BIS/220 July 21, 2014 JM Information Technology Acts Paper With the advancement of technology, like practically everything which exists, comes the pros and the cons, the advantages and disadvantages, the benefits and the liabilities. The Internet or the World Wide Web is no different. It has exposed individuals to a literal wealth of information. It has opened borders, exposed cultures and vastly improved knowledge and productivity. In essence, the Internet has made the world a "smaller" place in that, a person can hold a face-to-face conversation with another person on the other side of the world without ever boarding a plane and information can be sent hundreds of thousands of miles in seconds. But this information highway is not only used to share useful and appropriate information but also harmful and offensive messages, leaving the most vulnerable users, children, at risk. In an effort to protect American children using the vast and almost uncensored internet, in 2000, two Acts took effect, the Children's Internet Protection Act, 1998 and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 2000. Due to the advancement in information technology and rising ethical issues, these Acts were necessary in order to hold internet vendors and website operators accountable for the proper handling of children where their personal information and the nature of the information they are exposed to are applicable. The first Act, The Children's Internet Protection...
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...Information Technology Act BIS/220 April 23, 2012 Information Technology Act In the world we live in today, there’s some type of electronic device being used to connect to the Internet. “The world-wide platform enable individuals to connect, compute, communicate, compete, and collaborate everywhere, and anywhere, anytime and all the time, and to access limitless amounts of information, services, and entertainment”(Kelly Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011). “This platform operates without regard to geography, time, distance, or even language barriers” (Kelly Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011).We use these devices in our homes, in our businesses, in our schools, on our cell phones, and in the public libraries. Now that our children in most cases have unlimited access to the Internet, there is a great possibility that children are exposed to inappropriate material and on predators. In this paper there will be discussion on what were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of Children Internet Protection Act, 2000 and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 1998. Children Internet Protection Act, 2000 In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law The Children’s Internet Protection Act. Through the use of technology protection on measures, schools and public libraries are required to protect minors from the dangers of the Internet (Menuey, B. P. 2009). “The major concern with the implementation...
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...Children Protection Acts Claudette Irizarry BIS/220 December 3, 2012 Paula Billups Children Protection Acts Children in the twenty-first century are on the internet more than they are watching television. Information technology has had to advance itself to adjust with the new ethical issues that came along with child internet surfers. Privacy and protection acts protect children that use the internet. Two of these acts are the Children’s Internet Protection Act and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. According to "Informationshield.com" (1998), The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) “prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with the collection, use, or disclosure of personally identifiable information from and about children on the Internet.”(para. 1) COPPA is in place to ensure children are being protected because children are learning more and more about technology and using it on a day-to-day basis. They are using it in the classroom at school, at home, and on their cellular devices. There are predators that collect information from websites geared towards children thirteen and under and these individuals try to gain a child’s trust and friendship in order to harm them. These types of ethical issues made the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act necessary. COPPA requires a parent to give consent for a child’s personal information to be collected or put to use for any reason. The companies that have websites...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Advances in technology made it possible to obtain almost any information needed by accessing the World Wide Web. These advances have also paved the way for predators and unwarranted solicitors to retrieve private information. Most homes are either equipped with or have access to a computer and Internet. This technology used to be reserved for the government and businesses but is readily available for the individual consumer. The advances have not only made it possible to access information at home but also encourage teenagers and younger children to participate in gathering information via the Internet. Access to the web by children led to the enactment of laws such as the Children Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). These acts were implemented as a security method to aid in the protection of minors. Some websites containing nudity, online pornography, and other explicit content are banned from exploiting children. Children are viewed as easy victims to trick into providing private information or soliciting monetary compensation for obscene content. Because of this perception, additional laws are necessary to protect children when in comes to information technology. CIPA places restrictions on schools and libraries such as limiting the support of federal funding if certain requirements are not adhered. This act was signed by former President Bill Clinton in December 21, 2000. The design...
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...Information Technology Acts Cassedra Burdios BIS/220 June 5, 2013 Kevin Brown Information Technology “Fundamental tenets of ethics include responsibility, accountability, and liability,” Rainer and Cegielski (2011). This paper will discuss two information technology acts; along with what ethical issues and information technology advances that caused the acts to be in place. According to Rainer and Cegielski (2011) “Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices to guide their behaviors.” The two acts that will be covered are the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Children Internet Protection Act (CIPA). The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is meant to protect collected personal information from children under the age of 13. The privacy act provides website operators with the requirements to maintain and protect children’s privacy. In this new century children are skilled navigators of the Internet, and are fascinated with the Internet and the pool of information they can access. Some websites are designed to gather and store information just from the child visiting different websites of interest this method of information is called a click stream (Coppa, 2013). Blogs and chat rooms are another source of obtaining information in an unethical manner, such as home address, phone numbers, and family member’s names. Websites also target children by tempting them with gifts or prizes to fill out...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper The two acts I have selected to write about are the Do Not Call Act of 2003 and the Child’s Internet Protection Act. This paper will provide an understanding why the law required these acts to be established and why each of them played an important role in improving information technology. The first act to be discussed is the Child’s Internet Protection Act and the second act is Do Not Call Act of 2003. Child’s Internet Protection Act The Child’s Internet Protection Act also known as CIPA was established in 2000 by congress to directly address the concerns of children being able to access obscene and harmful sites through the internet. The CIPA imposes specific set of requirements on libraries and schools that receive discounted rate for internet access. In 2001 the FCC issues guidelines and updates to the rules in 2011. CIPA states that any school or library may not qualify for the discounts offered from the E-rate program unless the school or library has a an internet safety policy that covers technology protection measures that blocks obscene, harmful to minors, and child pornography ("Children’s Internet Protection Act", n.d.). The internet is not monitored and because of this children require supervision when access the websites. Schools that are subjected to CIPA rules must meet two additional requirements: 1. Internet safety polices will include monitoring online use of minors 2. Must provide education to minors on appropriate...
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...Information Technology Act There are several advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues that brought on the creation of certain acts. The two acts which will be discussed in this paper are the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA), and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (COPPA). Children’s Internet Protection Act is a federal law that was passed by congress that went into effect April 20, 2001 (ala.org. para1). The purpose behind the Children’s Internet Protection Act is to help block and filter certain material from being accessed through the internet. (ala.org para1). As the technology advances the local school systems have begun using computers/internet to teach children how to research subjects and to learn the technology of this day and time, which is also covered under this particular act that each school that has computers as a teaching tool is required to have filter system to keep minors from seeing cites that are not appreciate. The main purpose with the Children’s Internet Protection is to prevent children from today’s exposure for example pornographic images that are unsuitable for children. Modern Technology has become an important tool in our society from online banking to entering an address and receives step by step directions; if it appeals to adults then children interest will be a larger version of appeal. The internet is growing and children are being brought up in different society, learning how...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Natasha Bright-Wight BIS/220 April 21, 2014 Marty Mueller Information Technology Acts Paper I chose to research the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Both are similar in comparison but still both serve different issues to help with the advances in information technology and ethical issues that arise. With all these changes that are happening there have been necessary Acts that needed to be passed to protect the public. For both of these, companies have used marketing strategies to find out more and more information of people. Also, there has been identity theft that has occurred more because of personal information that has been put on the internet and shared and passed around. Children are having more and more access to the internet, and internet games. Both Acts deal with the same advances in information technology that resulted in ethical issues, making it very necessary to sign these Acts into Law. We have many computer networks, such as the Internet, smart phones and regular cell phones, and search engines, such as Google being used by everyone now, including children. Parents don’t watch their children’s internet activities and phone activities as closely as they should. Organizations have increasing amounts of data that can be stored and much cheaper now. There are more and more employees and people who have access to people’s personal information in the work place...
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...Information Technology Acts Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA) Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999 (COPPA) Christopher Barrera BIS/220 June 3, 2013 Information Technology Acts Paper The CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) of 2000 was created and enacted by Congress to address the concerns about obscene and harmful content found over the internet that was becoming readily accessible to children. The CIPA was created directly because of the necessity to educate the youth in the technological advancements occurring every day and the dangers that children become vulnerable to with the Internet working as an educational tool. As an act the CIPA requires schools and libraries that receive discounts on Internet access or internal connections through the E-Rate program that makes certain communication services and products more affordable for the eligible schools and libraries. While providing schools and libraries with accessible and affordable networks and Internet access, the E-Rate program did enforce two requirements in order for the schools or libraries to take advantage of their benefits. 1) Their Internet safety policies must include monitoring the online activities of minors. 2) As required by the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, they must provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites...
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...Information Technology Act Paper Shirley Richardson BIS/220 July 7, 2013 David Martin Children’s Internet Protection Act, 2000 As the internet grows and become a vast part of how the world communicates. The world is bombarded with the existence of the dangers and threats, especially involving the younger generation. Because of the vast danger and threats, a great need for filtering software has become the center of attraction, world-wide concerning the debate about children, sex, and the internet. In December 2000, Congress passed the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which is a law that places a demand on every school, library, museum, and all public related facilities to ensure there are some form of filtering application in place so, that they can continue receiving Federal funding for computers and internet accessibility. Entangled within the vast talked about dilemma of the internet and its dangers, as it pertains to children’s sexuality, internet filtering software takes up a wide spread of issues resulting in anxiety and fear. The matter that pose a major issue to parents are what the children are being exposed too, such as pornography, sexual images, sexual experience and sexual information, all of these things and more are discovered. The only way to protect the children from these obscenities and the dangers that the children are faced with, will be to educate our children, the responsibility does not fall on the distributors alone but the parents...
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...Advancements to Information Technology & the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000 Chris Weimer BIS/220 March 11, 2013 Andrew Caples Advancements to Information Technology & the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000 The advent of the Internet, and subsequent technological developments, enabled people to more easily share and access all types of information. Information technology is defined as, “anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet, or the people that work with these technologies.” (TechTerms.com, 2013) Unfortunately that also meant our children could be exposed to material that was considered harmful or obscene. Despite the benefits the internet offered, people felt the need to ensure the safety and well being of our children. These ethical concerns lead to the creation of the Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, by Congress in the year 2000. CIPA was created with the sole purpose to ensure that, “schools and libraries that received discounts for internet access, or internal connections through the E Rate program, limited children’s access to obscene or harmful content.” (Federal Communications Commission, May ) CIPA required several criteria to be met in order for schools and libraries to receive their funding. This included “access by minors to inappropriate matter on the Internet, the safety and security of minors when using electronic mail, chat rooms and other forms of...
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...passed the Children's Internet Protection Act and the Neighborhood Internet Protection Act. “The law places restrictions on the use of federal funding to support libraries if the libraries do not implement both Internet safety policies and implement filters for certain objectionable material which can be accessed over the Internet” (Online Libraries & Microcomputers, 2001). In other words congress wants to control the people of the United States and what they look at online, in a public place. If congress passed this law, it would impact research for education, personal, and professional use. Additionally, this is unethical because the US government should not impose control over what the public has access to on the internet. The United States Government wants to use information technology in public places to monitor the people by what they look at online. By doing so, institutions like public libraries or public schools would have difficulties in completing research due to the restrictions placed by the US Government. Many people go to libraries to use the computers provided to the public to complete research, write papers, or log on to the internet. Less fortunate people that cannot afford a computer or the internet, would be impacted the most. Someone who has a computer and access to internet at home would be able to look up anything they wanted without having restrictions. By only implementing this law at public libraries, how would this stop children from looking up negative...
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...Technology Acts Paper Sandy Delarosa BIS/220 July 8, 2013 Professor Tim Technology Acts Paper I am a father of two beautiful boys, who I am devoted to keeping safe from anything that could possibly harm them. Internet usage is part of everyday life for them. therefore, for my paper on technology acts I chose; The Children's Internet Protection Act 2000 (CIPA) and The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). On December 21, 2000 the children internet protection act was signed into law, three years later on June 23, 2003 the United States Supreme Court found this act to be constitutional. The act requires libraries and schools grades from kindergarten to 12th to put measures in place that will protect children from any harmful internet content they may come across while online. The children’s online privacy protection act details the rules and regulations that a website operator must follow, things that have to be included in their privacy policy and instructions on when and how to confirm age and consent from adult or guardian of the child. The advances in technology which have resulted in new ethical issues that prompted the creation of these acts are the growing number of ways predators can pray upon our children online. The internet has open many proverbial doors which allow people of all ages to anything without leaving the comfort of home. One can use the internet do a research paper, order pizza, buy clothing or to communicate with other...
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...information will cover the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000, Children’s Online Privacy Act of 1998, and what caused the act to be put in place. Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 When speaking of children, it is never taken lightly. Such innocent, young, and at times naïve creatures. It is the sole responsibility, of parents and society to be their protectors. In the early 1970’s pornography was legally available in the United States, and available to minors in the forms of DVD’s and magazines. Although during this time it was primarily in the hands of an adult. With the advancement in technology the internet became available for public use in 1992, and children had unsupervised access. The porn industry tried everything possible to draw viewers to their sites. Children were exposed to explicit harmful material during school hours. Pornographic images by leaving library terminals open and print outs on printers. Congress became very concerned .and tried many times to protect children from the dangers of the internet. Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 was passed, but continuously became an ongoing battle. This laws purpose specifically dealt with concerns about the internet in public institutions, specifically schools, libraries. Funds would not be provided to institutes unless they participated in all policies filtering specific material. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 1998 A child logs onto a children’s...
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...Technology Acts Skye Tsuji BIS/220 September 1, 2014 Patrick Deely Information Technology Acts For years technology has been growing and growing, as a result of this many acts have been put into place. Some of these acts are newer then others and some have been revised to fit the way technology is today, but non the less they are all there to protect use in some form or another. An act is much like a law in that it has certain consequences for disobeying. These consequences can range from a small fee, loss of your business, and or jail time. There are two newer acts from the early 2000 that show how acts can protect you and have consequences if they are not fallowed. The Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 is one of the many acts in place that protects one’s personal privacy and space. According to the Federal Communications Commission (N.D) it had “been receiving complaints in increasing numbers from consumers throughout the nation about unwanted and uninvited calls to their homes from telemarketers.” This was one of the main reasons for the implementation of the act. Although this act comes in on the coat tails of the Telephone Consumers Protection Act. There are many ethical issues that were behind putting this act together, one of these issues was the selling of personal information, such as phone number. As a result of this there are many people who are now on a Do Not Call List that was set up by the FCC. The Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 is...
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