Journal Entry #12 – Andriy Slynchuk has described eleven things Internet users do that may be illegal. Review what the author says and write a paragraph describing the five most serious violations and why you think those offenses are serious.

The five most serious violations that I see from this list are: Sharing Passwords, Addresses, or Photos of Others, Faking your identity online, Collecting information about children, Illegal searches on the internet, and Recording a VoIP call without consent. Sharing Passwords, Addresses, or Photos of Others without their consent is serious because this practice can lead to someone being put in a dangerous situation, whether done intentionally or not. If you post someone’s address online without their consent and someone meaning to do them harm arrives at the posted address and actually does harm to them, you as the poster should hold some liability in that incident. Faking your identity online may seem harmless, but it can lead to dangerous situations where you’re seeing things you are not supposed to see or you catfish someone and it leads to an incident occurring to either the perpetrator or the victim. Collecting information about children is dangerous because there is only a matter of time before this behavior gravitates from online to in-person and puts children in a defenseless position of possible kidnapping or child endangerment. Illegal searches on the internet are serious because depending on the illegality, the search could be misinterpreted as an act to perform harmful acts against someone or a group of people, and with more violence occurring over the last few years, it is likely there are trigger words that raise flags in search engines. Lastly, Recording a VoIP call without consent is serious because if you were told something in confidence and recorded it without consent, the issue of privacy would be violated and could be violating other laws as well.

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