Week 13 recap

Week 13: This week was primarily about privacy as much was similar to what we've been reading for level 3. Nothing to Hide by Daniel Solove was the book I finished reading for the week and discussed the issue of privacy and government searches. Most of the arguments were rooted in the Fourth Amendment and how the governments methods of information gathering can basically render a citizens Fourth Amendment rights as    invalid. Why? Because the government believes that they must keep information gathering a as a secret, giving no transparency reports or having oversight by the judicial system. The Supreme Court and other courts decisions on cases brought forward by citizens who felt their rights were violated during these searches seemed to favor the the government on grounds of secrecy being important for homeland security. This book covered many different ideas and arguments like the Nothing to Hide argument and the Third Party Doctrine. Nothing to Hide argument basically confuses privacy with secrecy, and believes that if a person has nothing to hide form the government then they should be willing to give up rights and privacy for the sake of national security. As for the Third Party Doctrine, I will attach a  link to an article below which applies the doctrine to an argument.

http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3270&context=bclr

 The school semester is coming near an end and I feel a bit of relief. So far I am feel confident on my standing to earn in A in the class. In this class, I have picked up a heavy load of knowledge on such topics as copyright, privacy, and constitution, but I feel the most knowledge I have picked up is in the topic of technology. I never realized all the unique tools out on the internet available to me such as Wikilinks and Prezi. My term paper is coming along, I just need to type the paper out as all the ideas and resources are already complete.