Milestone 3-Reflecting on Our Previous Classes (Issues Of Confidentiality)

It has been a while since I've posted. My apologies for such a lapse but I'm back on course. Some house keeping items before I continue with the blog. As you may have noticed, I've figured out how to not only put everyone's blog link on my site but I have included some additional links of interest. I hope no one gets mad that I decided to put something extra by your name so as to let you guys know how cool I think you all are. Please take the time to check them out. They are connected in part to what I want do for my big project for the class. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, please allow me to continue.
The previous classes have touched on what I primarily do for a living. I am a data specialist and deal with many prevention based in particular web-based systems. By no means am I a guru but I constantly worry about issues of confidentiality on the web. The internet in many ways is like a child. It's constantly growing trying to figure out what it is and where its place is in the world. We as a community are feeding it all kinds of things in hopes that the best things will be highlighted. Unfortunately as we have seen it's a wild mix in cyberville. Drawing those concepts into my head has given me a new insight on this course. Peter Muhlberger brought up some interesting points and he delved into many "habermas-ian" concepts. Though some of the things said I agreed with but what I've found is that most of these theorists/authors have excluded a very vital population: The commoner. I tend to champion the "digitally illiterate" who will further be marginalized by such technological advances. What I've been reading is from the perspective of academics who don't necessarily understand the plight of the common people. We as students are engrossed in a culture of a technologically savvy community so there's an obvious bias. The next speaker Ellen Detlefsen who I thought did a wonderful job was a little closer to trying bridge that gap. The only objections I had was that the situations she used weren't universal norms. The field I deal with prevention is as tricky as the weather. Everyone tries to attack one head of the hydra so to speak, but we all know that it just grows back twice as large and nasty. The best approach is an all around one, but I'm going off on a tangent. Stay tuned for my next rant.