Media Law & Literacy

       Now more than ever I am using online media every day whether it is for getting my news, doing my assigned work for classes, checking social media and so much more. I would say that my online footprint is pretty large, considering that I am always going on websites whether it's on my phone or computer to watch videos/movies or do work for school. I would say for myself that overall my relationship with technology for the most part is healthy, however it is nowhere near being 100% healthy. In my opinion, I believe that technology is taking up too much time in my life and I feel that I should limit my time that I use it. I think that technology informs us and makes us smarter more than it does misleading/giving us unreliable information. Even though most of the information given out online is credible and true, you have to watch for information that is unreliable and false which is given out more times than you think. This is why I believe that it is very importa...

     While listening to other teams present their second EOTO’s, there was one term/concept in particular that really caught my interest and that was the concept of five eyes. This was my first time ever hearing about FVEY and while listening to the presentation on it, I learned that it is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Also, I found out through the presentation that these countries all have an agreement together for joint cooperation in signals intelligence, military intelligence, and human intelligence which means that they spy on one another's countries citizens without them even knowing that it is happening. Considering that this was my first time hearing about the concept of five eyes it shocked me to learn while listening to the presentation that this agreement has been around since 1941. It was interesting to me that originally the main purpose of this alliance was actually to monitor th...