COM 449 Module Two Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric
Overview:
At this point in the course, you have learned about legal privacy protections, such as the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as well as the impact of new technologies on privacy. In this assignment, you will analyze how judicial and legislative branches of government must reevaluate the level of privacy citizens and businesses can expect and should be given when faced with new technologies and channels. You will also analyze how these decisions might impact private and professional communication.
Prompt:
Imagine you work as the communication director for a large conglomerate. A number of privacy-related issues have been in the news recently, and your executive team has requested you provide information on three areas of privacy concerns at the next leadership meeting.
For this assignment, select one of the three technologies listed below. You will then discuss the related privacy issues, legal and illegal uses or actions, ethical issues, and social media implications associated with the technology.
Technologies With Privacy Concerns
* Cell phone location data
* Drone data collection and surveillance
* Personal data stored by businesses
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
* Privacy Issues: Identify the ways your chosen technology could violate the privacy of individuals or businesses, using course resources to support your response.
* Legal and Illegal Use or Actions: Identify legal and illegal uses related to your chosen technology. Justify your examples using evidence from the course or other external resources to support your response.
* Ethical Issues: Identify key ethical issues related to your chosen technology. Explain why your identified issues present ethical concerns, using course resources to support your response.
* Implications for Communication: Discuss how your selected technology impacts or could impact the field of communication by examining general organizational and professional use cases and the legal and ethical considerations for each use case.
What to Submit:
Submit this assignment as a 500- to 750-word Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Course resources for this week:
( use any of them that back these claims up and use your own if not enough )
https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/
https://www.itgovernanceusa.com/data-breach-notification-laws
https://www.findlaw.com/consumer/consumer-transactions/drone-laws-by-state.html
https://www.fpri.org/article/2017/04/framework-ethical-decision-making/
https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
https://www.prsa.org/about/prsa-code-of-ethics
https://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/harvard__law_review.htm