SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Digital Divide, Reality Television, Michel Foucault
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The digital divide: the digital divide is the uneven access to technology among different races, classes, and geographic areas. In part, the issue of the digital divide had to do with communities that received infrastructure upgrades that enabled high-speed internet access, upgrades that largely went to affluent urban and suburban areas, leaving out large swaths of the country. How to protect your data: become familiar with privacy rights, read privacy policies when making a purchase (rather than simply clicking. Accept ): give out only the minimum information requested by any source; Soc 1: ask why information is being collected, how it is going to be used, and who will have access it, monitor your credit history for red flags that indicate your identity has been compromised. Internet service providers as common carriers would constitute an unreasonable regulatory burden and limit the ability of telecommunication companies to operate profitably.
