legal and ethical issues

The article i choose is "Judge Rules in E-Book Copyright Dispute" from  www.cfif.org. This article talks about legal copy write issues about publishing different versions of books; print versus Ebooks. It discusses how two different publishing  companies  are fighting over the copywrite of certain books. The first company claims that they have the copy write of both the print and electronic versions, while the other one is only publishing Ebooks and claiming that the first company has the copy write of print versions only. Actually, when i looked at the dispute they are having i started thinking  about  different things : while they are having a dispute about who owns the copy write of the electronic version , it seems as if no one thought that there is a different copy write issue here; that of content instead of version. I think that the dispute should not be about the type of book ,but about the same content that the two versions of the book have because whether its a print or an electronic book it is still the same in term of whats inside the book itself.

Privacy and security

 Privacy is a real concern for most internet uses because personal pictures or information could be made accessible to others. Whether its a picture on Facebook ,a profile on a web page , or a single information on a chatting website ,other people can gather all this information doing a google search and combining all the available information together ,and probably use it against you.There is even a possibility of getting your full address and phone number if they know your full name .I think this is very dangerous because crimes can happen this way.Actually, i don't understand why if you have a home phone the phone company allows this information for others to look up online .Also , hackers always hack emails to look for some important information . The article "WHY CAN'T THE PERSISTENT HACKING OF YAHOO MAIL BE STOPPED?" discusses the issue of hacking a yahoo email account. The article shows that hacking a yahoo email is possible and that hackers can get the information without you even knowing they hacked your account, since they can return everything as it was .