{"id":4801,"date":"2019-11-19T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:58:16","slug":"first-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/2019\/11\/19\/first-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"First Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In class the other day, I asked you to brainstorm questions that you might need answered as you prepare your final argumentative essays. Below is a curated list of those questions. I&#8217;ll ask you in this week&#8217;s bookmark assignment (see next post) to find a source that helps answer one or more of these questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How effective has mass surveillance been in preventing terror attacks since 9\/11?<\/li>\n<li>What actual harm has come to US citizens as a result of mass surveillance?<\/li>\n<li>How specifically has the pursuit of privacy impeded security efforts?<\/li>\n<li>What are the mechanisms behind surveillance? How precisely are people surveilled in the US?<\/li>\n<li>What is the balance of threats to national security that come from inside the US versus outside?<\/li>\n<li>What specific legal frameworks are relevant to a discussion of mass surveillance?\n<ul>\n<li>What safeguards are in place to protect people from unwarranted surveillance?<\/li>\n<li>What about other regulations or policies that govern privacy? Like regulations that might govern Facebook?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What reasons for surveillance does a government have other than terrorism prevention?<\/li>\n<li>What have experts predicted for the future of surveillance?<\/li>\n<li>What alternatives to mass surveillance have been proposed, and by whom?<\/li>\n<li>What does polling say about public perception of surveillance and privacy?<\/li>\n<li>What does this debate look like other countries? Say, China or the EU?<\/li>\n<li>What do experts say about the risks of government \u201cback doors\u201d in software?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class the other day, I asked you to brainstorm questions that you might need answered as you prepare your final argumentative essays. Below is a curated list of those questions. I&#8217;ll ask you in this week&#8217;s bookmark assignment (see next post) to find a source that helps answer one or more of these questions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[700,68,193],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-info","tag-first-questions","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}