Instruction
Problem Statement:
This week Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, voluntarily testified before members of both the House and Senate. This occurred because of congressional concern over consumer data privacy issues, alleged Russian tampering in our political election process and the 87 million Facebook users data leakage from Cambridge Analytica.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/facebook-cambridge-analytica-a-timeline-of-the-data-hijacking-scandal.html
https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/04/10/facebook-theoretically-owe-ftc-7-1-trillion-recent-data-scandals/
Assignment:
Perform research to answer the following questions:
1) In your opinion, is Facebook a tech or media company? Explain.
2) Facebook collects massive amounts of data, which the CEO states, is used to improve the "user's experience." He also states that the user has control of their own data and privacy through available settings as mentioned in their Terms of Service. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
3) The Federal Trade Commission is currently investigating whether Facebook violated a 2011 settlement regarding user data and privacy issues. Do you believe the FTC will take action against Facebook once the investigation is completed? Explain
Part 2
https://www.globalsign.com/en/blog/industrial-internet-of-things-cyber-attacks-infographic/ (Internet of Things...are we heading for convenience or massive risk?)
http://www.csoonline.com/article/2857665/data-protection/the-future-of-security-11-predictions-for-2015.html (11 predictions for 2015...were they right?)
A look at items for 2017
http://focus.forsythe.com/articles/540/Top-5-Cyber-Security-Predictions-for-2017
Video is almost a couple of years old - but still very,very relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmVTPyE5DM
Answer this: What does our information security future look like? What is our biggest threat? What is our biggest opportunity for improving personal and corporate security? Have we, as a society, gone too far in the digital age - Should we regress? Could we regress at this point?