What the Navy and other
organizations such as FEMA have found is that during natural disasters people
use these social media sites to communicate the instantaneous destruction.
Through a modern technology called crowdsourcing, the Navy will be able to scan
the social media sites for information about the disaster. It is their hope
that they can know the severity of the situation immediately and act in a
timely manner to bring aid to the disaster site.
In theory, crowdsourcing to aid in disaster relief sounds like a great idea, and could save many lives with the timeliness of the response. However, how
would you feel if your Facebook was being scanned for information regarding
natural disasters? What is to say that they will stop there? Maybe a tool they
intended for good can be used to infiltrate the very privacy that the writers
of the Constitution so dearly tried to protect. What do you think? Is this
a good or a bad idea? I guess only time will tell for sure.
I Love the Idea, but it should stay Excatly that, an Idea! No one would like their privacy invaded whether it's intentionally or not! I believe they should just be able to scan the News Feeds of these Social Networks, not go into people private mail, or account.
ReplyDeleteGood feedback Demarco. I agree with you in the sense that no one wants their privacy invaded. I know I don't However, looking at it from a different viewpoint, do you think a little less privacy is worth it in order to save lives in a disaster? Just something for you to think about.
DeleteYea, I do agree a little less privacy is worth the lives of people, if i'm looking at it from that point. I just think the US government always holds info. from the US citizens, so it would cross my mind that US will not only be searching for world-wide Disasters, but other things as well that we don;t know about.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of this. But you do bring up a good point in about the government using Facebook to scan different areas of our lives. Yes, Facebook and Twitter could be a GREAT place to gain information about what is going on in a disaster area; but people exaggerate about what is going on in the world.
ReplyDeleteGood points Deborah. I do think people tend to exaggerate a little. However, I do think a little more exaggeration is better than nothing at all. If you have the opportunity to save lives, would it not be better to have an exaggeration than something that doesn't give the true scope of the disaster?
DeleteI feel like it's an invasion of privacy. There comes a point where the government just needs to stay out of our personal lives. Now if they wanted to create a page where the country to post on it during a disaster that's fine because then they wouldn't have to gleam information from our personal pages. And that way people can upload photos of the area and post statutes on what is going on.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a good idea. I think the only stipulation is the question of wether or not they would just stop at disaster information. If you asked anyone if sharing their information about a disaster could save lives I have no doubt they would agree to it. What in the world could someone have on their facebook that they are so worried about the government getting ahold of? I think it is a great idea, especially if it helps to the promptness of saving lives.
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