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Final Project – Could Facebook Data Leak Be Turning Point In Privacy Debate? 2018

Now for the down and dirty on the final project, which I know you are just salivating to get your hands on!

Introduction

Well, what I am going to do here is go over the case study that we will be working on the entire semester. Don’t get too upset just yet, we will break this case study down into six components that will be handed in over the course of the semester. At the end of the semester you will compile the document for a final grade – if you don’t compile it for me, then I will average all the components for a final grade.

What I Expect.

Use material & ideas presented within the constructs of this course

Use research take a stance on the on the articles presented in the case study

Answer the question: Was it moral, ethical and legal for former Facebook to share personal data of US citizens?

Identify, discuss and reflect on the conflict of ethical, moral and legal issues associated with current US practices of data sharing and selling.

Provide adequate background on the relevant issues

Okay, in the case study document, I given you two articles to read over to get you started on the privacy issues regarding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica; these articles should be your jumping off point for the development of your paper. You can actually use them in your references, but they will not count towards the 10 articles that you need present to qualify for an A for the assignment.

What I want you to do is to take the material that we have gone over in this course and apply it to the Facebook case study. Your job is to decide whether it was ethical, moral and legal for Facebook to provide Cambridge Aanalytica with the end user's personal data.

You need to take a stance on the sharing of user’s personal data taken by Facebook. There are a multitude of stances you can take, but remember, Facebook cannot be both ethical and unethical; moral and immoral; or legal and illegal, but their actions could be found to be a combination of all three aspects in your paper eg., they could be found moral, but unethical and legal. I want you to look at and examine the legal, the moral and the ethical issues associated with this case. Do some research on the background privacy issues as garenteed under the constitution and bill of rights; what are the legal statues on the use or sharing/selling of personal data. Tell me how you handle the current situation and what policies you might recommend for the government to implement in the future or for Facebook to use.

What I Expect Con’t.

Explore all relevant issues

Violation of Expectation of Privacy – Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights

Were there violations as defined by the Federal Trade Commission Act

Develop a conclusion on your stance

Develop a response to how you would proceed

Develop a strategic plan of how you would handle request for personal data

Develop a plan or policy on how to avoid this issue in the future

Identify cultural impact and consequences that may be the ramification of this surveillance in the future.

I want you to explore all relevant issues even more issues than

I have presented here. Look at government's policy, The Federal Trade Commission Act. Did Facebook

Over step their authority by sharing the end user’s personal information? Was Facebook in violation

of protecting United States Citizen’s expectation or right to privacy.

Are there any constitutional or legal violations here?

Did this company sided step moral, ethical and legal concerns?

What about security issues in regards to the use of information resulting from

sharing of this information with a third party, the Trump campaign?

What is your prediction for the future? Do you see any changes that need

to be implemented, if so what do you recommend and why?

Take your research and develop a stance and come up with a conclusion.

Develop a response of how you would proceed in preventing the this crisis for

Facebook and similar entiites in the future. How would you handle request

for personal data in the future – would you implement new policy or follow

existing protocol or a combination of both . Develop a strategic

plan of what you would do for the future – of what you

would do to prevent this crisis in the future. Ultimately, how is

going to impact the culture within the social media

community overall? What are your predictions? I want to know your

ideas, there is no right or wrong approach, because ethical practices

are an ongoing/evolving ideas that develops over time.

Dates

APA Annotated Bibliography Due 9/8

Introduction (not an Abstract) Due 9/22 by midnight

Explanatory Paragraph Due 10/6 by midnight

Background on legal and ethical issues of case Due 10/20 by midnight

Body by Saturday: Due 11/27 by midnight

Conclusion Due 12/1 by midnight

Final Version Compiled on Friday Due December 7, 2018 by midnight

This is probably the most important slide in this PowerPoint

for you – this has a date for when everything is due.

NOTE that I have a link to an Annotated bibliography, this

will take you out to the Perdue Owl web site. This is a very

good web site that will teach you how to write in APA format,

which is our standard writing format in the IT industry.

The document is broken down into 6 components that are

submitted and graded. If you are happy with your grades you

do not have to do any rewrites, and I’ll will average the

grades together and that will be the final grade on the paper.

However you can do rewrite. As you do rewrites the previous

grade goes away as if it never existed. If you still are

working on rewrites by the end of the courses; on December

8th you can submit the entire

document and I will read it and grade it and that will be

your grade for this portion of the course.

General Info about the Paper

a 7 to 10 page, double spaced document, with supporting documentation and created in APA style using the following criteria:

Font: times roman size 12

1” margins

Double spaced everything – even citations

Reference page

The body of your document should be 7 to 10 pages long. That does not include your reference pages. The first item you are going to submit is your Annotated bibliography – please follow the link presented in this PowerPoint on APA style Annotated Bibliographies.

The second item is the introduction/hypothesis of your paper. The introduction is not an Abstract; it is one or two paragraphs providing a background on the case.

The font you will be using is Time Roman or Times New Roman size 12, doubled spaced – even citations and I do check for these things. One inch margins all around and I check for this. There is a required reference page, which is to be in APA format – that is why I strongly suggest that you use Word, because it will do the formatting of all references and citations for you .

I have put the links on the slides to the sites that I think will be helpful in developing your paper and using word. On this page I have put the link on to the APA style page that link to Owl’s website. I have had a number of students tell me they like the Owl’s websites.

Crib Sheets on APA Formatting & Referencing

Crib -- https://www.library.kent.edu/files/APACheatSheet.pdf

The Owl at Prudue -- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/03

Online Tutorial -- Referencing Electronic Sources -- http://www.lib.usm.edu/index.php?id=81

This slide is showing the links to the APA style crib sheet, and the Purdue Owl’s website for APA style online tutorial sponsor by the American Psychology Association.

To use activate these links – hold the CTRL and left mouse button down simultaneously to access the site – while the PowerPoint is running in Slide Show or copy the text below the hyperlink on the side and paste into any browser’s location bar.

Links on Using Word for APA Style Documents

APA format Windows -

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4bN5E8DMo Citation and Referencing in Word 2016

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=10eg_GB_A9E

APA format Mac -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4bN5E8DMo&t=136s

On this slide I have the YouTube videos to the Window’s version of Word 2016 and the Mac version.

	Corresponds to	Corresponds to	Corresponds to	Corresponds to	Corresponds to

	4	3	2	1	0
20% Source Selection:	Sources chosen are highly relevant to the topic; Sources adds greatly to research potential; few, if any additional sources needed	Most sources chosen are relevant to the topic; May require a small amount of additional research	Some sources chosen are relevant to the topic; writer may need additional sources to complete research	Few sources chosen are relevant to the topic; writer may require significant additional research	Sources are not relevant to researcher’s topic; Sources necessitate extensive additional research	0
20 % Credibility:	All sources are from credible, industry related materials	Most sources are from credible, industry related materials	Some sources are from credible, industry related materials	Few sources are from credible, industry related materials.	Sources lack credibile sources	0
20% Annotations:	Annotations are concidse and comprehensively describe the source material; the annotations offer great insight into the source material and use within document	Most annotations are concise t and comprehensively describe the source material; Some offer insight into the source material potential application to document	Some annotations are not concise or do not provide enough information and thethe annotations adequately describe the source material, but is missing insight into the potential use in the document	Few annotations meet the length requirements (3 to 4 sentences), less than 50% annotations adequately describe the source materialand the annotations offer little insight potential use within the document	Most annotations are either too short or too long; Annotations do not describe the source material; annotations offer no insight	0
20 % Evaluations:	Evaluation clearly explains why the sources were chosen and demonstrates a clear understanding of areas of research required for the development of paper	Most evaluations explain why the sources were chosen and demonstrates and understanding of areas of research required for the development of paper	Evaluation sometimes explains why the sources were chosen and demonstrates some understanding of areas of research required for the development of paper	Evaluation mostly lacking in explaining why the sources were chosen; demonstrates little understanding of areas of research required for the development of paper	Evaluation does not explain why the sources were chosen; demonstrates no understanding of areas of research required for the development of paper	0
15 % Assignment Criteria:	Each sources has a proper citation and all citations are complete; All are in the proper APA format	Most sources have proper citation; Most citations are complete; Most are in the proper APA format	Some sources have proper citation; Some citations are complete and some are in the proper APA format	Few sources have a proper citationand few citations are complete; few are in the proper APA format	Very few sources have a proper citation; Very few citations are completeand very few are in the proper APA format	0
5% Mechanics, Grammar, and Proofing:	Virtually free from mechanical, grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors and all of the assignment requirements were met	Occasional minor errors do not distract the reader and the majority of assignment requirements were met	Some significant errors are present, but the overall meaning is clear and about half of the assignment requirements were met	Errors are distracting, but the meaning is still clear and only some of the assignment requirements were met	Errors distract the reader, to the extent the meaning is unclear and the assignment requirements were not met	0
					Grade ___/100 pts	0

Annotated Bibliography

In the Annotated Bibliography rubric I will be evaluating six (6) key areas –

the selection of your source is appropriate for the topic, e.g. if you have a

blog, don’t cite your blog as a source (You may think this is funny,

but it has be tried in other courses that I have taught.). I will be evaluating

the credibility of the sources and your annotations. In your annotations I

will look at your description of the relevance of the article to the topic.

Under the relevance I will be expecting you to explain how you plan to

use this article in your document. Under Assignment criterion, I will

examine how well you format the reference in APA style. Finally, I will

valuating your use of grammar, and general good writing principals.

Introduction

Introduction	Missing /Poor	Fair	Good	Excellent
	Paragraph has no sense of topic, not focused.	No Original idea	The Thesis statement of the paragraph is not supported in the Introduction.	The Thesis statement of the paragraph is clear, and lets the reafer know what to expect from the paper
Content	No background given on the issue	The content of the paper is not clear on your approach	Language is clear and precise; senetance structure is well structured.	Content of the paper is clear and follows a logical or plan for development.
Research	No citation to use within the context of the material being presented	There is effort to integrate done on the topic within the introduction	Some research integrated within the Introduction but does not correlate with article cited.	Research is clearly integrated and evident in the Introduction and is supported by the content of article cited.
Transition
	No evidence of possible transition to Hypothesis statement that is to follow	The transition statement is not clear.	The transition was some what clear but not in proper paragraphing structure	The transition allowed for the last words in paragraph to be the lead in to your future Thesis statement
Grammar, Spelling, Writing		Fair	Good	Excellent

Based on this rubric – I am looking for a theme statement for the opening paragraph of your document. This paragraph should provide an introduction to the background behind this case and needs to be presented in an logical order. This paragraph(s) should provide a good transition point to your argument, which will be formally presented in your Explanatory paragraph. Finally, I am looking for good grammar, spelling, and general writing skills.

Hypothesis

In your hypothesis/explanatory paragraph, I am looking for the stance you are taking on Facebook and the sharing of the end user’s personal data with Cambridge Analytica. Explain how you will approach the subject and defend your stance. Note: you should identify at least three (3) points you plan to present to defend your stance for or against Facebook.

When I do the evaluation of the writing, I will take each section of the document and evaluate it accordingly base on the structure that should be find there, the content of information that should be there and whether it is well developed, the mechanics of the writing – spelling, punctuation, and paragraphing and the research that has gone into it. Do you have sources identified for the document?

On the critical reasoning portion of the document (the third tab in the Excel file) I look at how well you analyze the document that you have written. How much thought have you put into it. Do you back up your ideas? Have you got supporting evidence? Can you back it up with your thoughts and research? Is it articulated correctly? Does it make sense? Is it reasonable? Are you putting forth a logical argument – no matter what side you choose?

Used in Body, Legal Rubric

In both the legal background and body sections of the document I use an expanded rubric for the review of your writing.

In both sections I will look at your writing skills and the logic and creativity presentation of your idea used in your

writing, through the use of Writing and Critical Reasoning Rubrics. However, in the legal

background section, I have set some parameters in the type and degree of development I expect you to

demonstrate in your writing by including an additional rubric called Content.

Legal Background

CATEGORY	Strong -4 points	Proficient -3 points	Developing -2 points	Beginning-1 point	Inadequate -- 0 points	Earned points	Possible points
Preparation of Paper's discussion	Paper's discussion shows evidence of thorough preparation through reading, reflection and research Author speaks as one who has knowledge to share. 9 or more references used.	Paper's discussion shows evidence of preparation through reading or reflection. Author speaks as one who has knowledge to share. 8 or more references used.	Paper's discussion shows little evidence of preparation and research through reading or reflection. 7 or more references used.	Paper's discussion shows no evidence of preparation and research through reading or reflection. 6 to 4references used.	Paper's discussion shows no evidence of preparation and research. 3 to 0 references used	0	4
Quality of content	Paper's discussion contains substantial information for reader and presents the on ethical point of view of author. The entry addresses the focus question(s) completely.	Paper's discussion contains substantial information for reader and presents the on ethical point of view of author.. The entry addresses the focus question(s).	Paper's discussion contains minimal information for reader and presents the on ethical point of view of author.. The entry addresses the focus question(s).	Paper's discussion contains minimal information for reader and limited point . The entry does not address the focus question(s).	Paper's discussion contains no new information for reader.	0	4
Identifies and Reflects on Conflict Ethical and Legal Issues	Identifies and discusses at least 4 key legal, moral and ethical issues demonstrated into this case study and based on research.	Identifies and discusses at least 3 key legal, moral and ethical issues demonstrated into this case study and based on research.	Identifies and discusses at least 2 key legal, moral and ethical issues demonstrated into this case study and based on research.	Identifies and discusses at least 2 key legal, moral and ethical issues demonstrated into this case study and based on research.	Identifies and discusses at least 0 key legal, moral and ethical issues demonstrated into this case study and based on research.	0	4
Exploration	Identified all of the alternative course of action and outcomes.	Identified most of the alternative courses of action and outcomes.	Identified an adequate number of the alternative courses of actions and outcomes.	Either identified an adequate number of the alternative courses of actions and no outcomes, or minimal course of action and limited course of action.	Identified no alternative courses of actions and no possible alternative outcomes.	0	na

What I am looking for here is that you explore the legal issues for both Facebook and Cambridge Anatalytica -- you relate the legal issues to the ethical and moral consideration that Facebook and Cambridge Anatalytica should provide Facebook end users.

Legal Background

CATEGORY	Strong -4 points	Proficient -3 points	Developing -2 points	Beginning-1 point	Inadequate -- 0 points	Earned points	Possible points
Development	All written requirements outlined response to all key points found in the Case Study article were clearly addressed. Answers were comprehensively addressed.	All written requirements were met on time with clear expression. A majority of key points found in the Case Study article were clearly addressed.	All written requirements were met. An adequate number of key points found in the Case Study article were clearly	Requirements were not met on time. A minimal number of key points found in the Case Study article were not clearly addressed	Requirements were not met on time. An insufficient number of key points found in the Case Study article were not clearly addressed.	0	4
Alternatives	Identified all technical or non-technical alternative courses and outcomes.	Identified most of the technical or non-technical alternative courses and outcomes.	Identified some of the possible technical and non-technical alternatives and some of the outcomes.	Identified very limited presentation of the possible technical and non-technical alternatives and some of the outcomes.	No identification of technical and non-technical alternative courses of action or outcomes	0	na
Cultural and Consequences of Actions	Discussed all alternatives action and acceptance of consequences; recognition of possible personal cost and cultural impact.	Discussed majority alternatives action and acceptance of consequences; recognition of possible personal cost and cultural impact.	Discussed adequate alternatives action and acceptance of consequences; recognition of possible personal cost and/or cultural impact.	Discussed limited alternatives action and acceptance of consequences; recognition of possible personal cost and/or cultural impact.	did not discussed alternatives action and acceptance of consequences; recognition of possible personal cost and/or cultural impact.	0	4
Formulation & Defense of One’s Opinion(s)	Excellent and Clearly presents a viewpoint with effective and persuasive supporting lines of thought (arguments) and documentation.	Reasonable presentation of one’s viewpoint with effective and persuasive lines of thought (arguments) and documentation.	Little and/or unclear presentation of one’s viewpoint with minimal and/or somewhat supporting arguments and documentation.	Viewpoint and/or unclear presentation of one’s viewpoint with minimal and/or ineffective supporting arguments and documentation.	Viewpoint and supporting lines of thought are not presented or evident and documentation.	0	4

Based on the legal issues identify within your paper, determine alternatives approaches that Facebook or Cambridge Analytica could have taken, if possible, to circumvent the predicament that Facebook finds themselves in.

Conclusion

Transition Words	2	1	0	Earned	Possible
	Writer uses a creative transitional phrase to start the conclusion (not"In conclusion")	Writer uses a creative transitional phrase to start the conclusion (not"In conclusion")	There is no transitional phrase to start out the conclusion.	0	3
Main Idea Restated	2	1	0
	The main idea is restated in the conclusion in a new way	The main idea is restated in the conclusion in the same way as intro	The main idea is not restated at all in this conclusion	0	3
Three Points Restated	2	1	0
	The three main points are restated in the conclusion clearly and in a new way	The three main points are restated in the conclusion clearly but not really in a new way	The three main points are NOT restated in the conclusion clearly	0	3
Tie to the Introduction	2	1	0
	The writer makes a connection back to the information in the introduction (a name, a story, an event, stats, etc.)	The writer makes a brief connection to the introduction; it needs to be clearer or stronger	The writer makes no attempt to tie anything back to the introduction	0	3
			Total	0	12
			Grade	0

In this portion of the document, I am look to see that in your conclusion, you have tied up your key points. That your assertions and research presented within you paper are reiterated, presented again, in your conclusion. I expect no new information or ideas to be presented in this portion of the paper.