[LM_NET] Share: An Internet Teachable Moment

[Ed Nizalowski <ed.nizalowski@GMAIL.COM>]

I’m doing a unit (of sorts) that I call Information Ethics, Rights and
Responsibilities.  One of the key topics is the erosion of privacy in
the Age of the Internet.  I received a piece of junk mail yesterday
that made me want to clutch my copy of 1984 and huddle in a corner.
In bold letters on the front it read: “EDWARD NIZALOWSKI, THEY KNOW
WHERE YOU ARE! …. But just who are they?”  I’m sure all of you have
had your name plastered in big, bold letters all over the front of
some unsolicited piece of snail mail.  What was different about this
one is that the entire background was an image from MapQuest of my
home at 441 Brown Road, Berkshire, New York.  George Orwell, where are
you when we need you?
        The solicitation came from the magazine Reason  [Free Minds and Free
Markets].  I can even go to my own personal website to sign up for a
free issue.  I immediately became curious as to how many thousands of
these must have been sent out and how the generation of something this
specific to an individual can be done cost effectively.  The
magazine’s website is reason.com.  How many of you received an inquiry
from Reason magazine?


Ed Nizalowski, SMS
Newark Valley High School
Newark Valley, NY
enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org

“If you have an opportunity to make things better, and you don’t do
that, you are wasting your time on this earth.”
Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1971

Currently reading Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

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