Online Voting

When it comest to online voting, I dont really have a preference to whether it should be used or not. Obviously there are pros and cons for it, but i dont believe that there is any argument that strongly outweighs the other. I personally don't use online voting just because of the way that I was brought up. For example, whenever my Mom or Dad went to vote, they would take me with them and every time they went to a booth and never online. Naturally I just think I should cast a physical vote.

Within the reading, one thing that really stuck out in my mind was when it was stated that online voting eliminates the risk of someone tampering with the ballot box. I'm no computer expert, but these days I would think it is just as easy or even easier to tamper with elections electronically as it is with physical votes. It also said that a virus could easily change a persons vote on the internet or on an electronic vote.

I guess I'm more against online voting than I am for it. But if the voter wants to take the risk of it, go for it.

Risks and Benefits: Choices being made on my behalf

This video brings to mind what is really happening these days with privacy. The question is, do we have any? The video is actually pretty creepy. The fact that she knows what they guy buys, the magazines subscribed to, the fact that he bought tickets to hawaii and books he checked out is weird. Even a place as simple as a pizza shop to know all of this is strange. Sure there are benefits to it, like address and phone number and name, which would make delivery much easier. But for a pizza shop to have the personal and private information about you is unnecessary. If getting information about someone is this easy, then things like ordering items online is a huge risk because of credit card numbers and other info as well. All in all, I think it's more dangerous than benefitial.