Article #5

Title: Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones

Author: Somini Sengupta

Date: November 25, 2012

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/technology/legality-of-warrantless-cellphone-searches-goes-to-courts-and-legislatures.html?ref=technology

Summary: Judges and law makers are wondering if officers will require a search warrant to view someone's cellphone records. And since the Senate committee is considering changing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 law. As technology continues to advance the law is being left behind law makers and courts have to consider what information is private and what is owned by the phone company.

Relevance: This article is abcout the governments ability to view data that is personal to the private citizen. If the government is allowed to view anyone's private information without a warrant it can disable the rights of citizens.

Quote: "A proposed amendment would require the police to obtain a warrant to search e-mail, no matter how old it was, updating a provision that currently allows warrant-less searches of e-mails more than 180 days old."

Article Review #3

Title: "Photo-sharing app expands to the web"

Author: Barbara Ortutay

Date: November 5th

Link to Original Article: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2019611279_apustecinstagramweb.html

Summary: The photo-sharing app, Instagram, is expanding beyond mobile phones. On Monday, Facebook made the announcement this announcement in a blog post. Instagram will now have a website to go along with their profile photo, bio and a few snapshots that have been recently shared on Instagram. 

Relevancy: With Facebook expanding it's photo sharing app on the web, those who design the sites will have to figure out a way for the app and site to seamlessly blend without any structural hiccups between the two. 

Quote: " Facebook has insisted since it bought Instagram this year that it will keep it running as a separate service. That still appears to be the case. The Instagram web pages don't link to Facebook and don't ask users to log in using their facebook accounts."