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.
Out of the eleven illegal internet activities, the five that stand out to me the most: Collecting Information about Children; Sharing Passwords, Addresses, or Photos of Others; Using Other People’s Internet Networks; Using Unofficial Streaming Services; and Extracting Audio from YouTube. The first of the five is serious for obvious reasons, obvious to me at least. A kid doesn’t have the cognizance necessary for understanding why their data is being collected/tracked, so it wouldn’t make sense to collect their data for external use. They can’t buy anything as they don’t have their own online payment methods like debit & credit cards, and they also can’t consent to having their data collected or not in the sense that they aren’t even going to regard the terms and conditions that come with consenting to data tracking. No one that uses the internet really regards the terms and conditions, but most adults understand what’s happening without reading them at least. It, all in all, does not seem ethical. Sharing/exposing addresses online is known as doxing nowadays, and this is serious since there is zero certainty that whoever is living there will be safe unless they can afford some type of security. There is zero certainty that whoever has the individual’s address doesn’t have malicious intent, so it’s essentially endangering a person whether it be by accident or not. Using others’ internet networks can be serious depending on the intent as well. If it’s a friend or family member that is using it without bad intentions, it doesn’t make sense that it’s illegal, but regarding hacking/abuse of the network, it makes sense as a lot of daily life will rely on that network whether it’s logging into a banking/financial site, social media site, institutional site, etc. Using unofficial streaming services is copyright infringement, so it’s understandable for it to be illegal. I believe it isn’t cracked down on a lot because there are too many people that actively participate in it; for a brief example, people will post entire movies on TikTok at times, and it won’t get taken down for a long while. Lastly, extracting audio from YouTube is the one that really surprised me the most, but it is understandable as well. It’s similar to the concept behind using unofficial streaming services; it’s like plagiarism but in a digital format relating to videos and should rightfully be acted upon depending on how serious the situation is.