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  • Essay / Privacy and Ethics: Net Neutrality - 1623

    Privacy and Ethics (Chapter 13 p. 528, 546)This does not pertain to any specific section or topic in Chapter 13, as it is an example of the application of such privacy and ethics on a more global scale. The Internet has been humanity's informational dream and a convoluted cesspool of crime for at least the last decade. This is mainly because the Internet is devoid of rules and laws. Personally, the exchange of anarchy for infinite freedom has never been troubling, nor a thought in my mind. At no time did I find it necessary to mobilize our government for an Internet Constitution, even when someone stole my credit card numbers and bought a new car on the Internet. Still, the Net Neutrality debacle got me thinking that maybe we really need something in place to protect the sanctity of the Net. Driven by business greed, companies like Comcast seek to control the bandwidth we are allowed to use. This has been because companies like Netflix, which offer large amounts of bandwidth-hogging streaming, have become popular. Now Comcast wants to be able to sell bandwidth, which will benefit some people (but don't they already sell bandwidth as an Internet Service Provider?). Brazil, and the subject of this article, has enacted a law that serves as the Internet Bill of Rights. The law restricts the amount of data companies can collect from their consumers, while also preventing Internet service providers from acting as a "toll road" by charging for bandwidth. I hope the United States will follow Brazil, especially on net neutrality. As a web developer, my biggest fear is that all the aspects that distinguish good and bad developers will be overshadowed by whoever has the largest field of paper......have never been clarified (thankfully, I worked in isolation). I saw new tools appear that overcomplicated very simple processes, all in an effort to be “fashionable” with new technologies. The only thing this article didn't mention is methodologies like scrum that can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. I must say that the experience was very educational, because it was not entirely negative. It was the flaws of this company that made me appreciate what it means to build a business from the ground up and the valuable perspectives that can make or break a team. Disclaimer: This endeavor will be successful, in my opinion, and my analysis is simply an application of the topic I have chosen. Kogekar, Herment. “Why IT Projects Really Fail.” CIO. December 5, 2013. April 28. 2014 .