MD’s Blog for WRD 112

 Santiago's Blog Post about privacy and security - https://jstr223.wixsite.com/website-3/post/data-surveillance-still-being-watched a new article I found - https://www.bullguard.com/bullguard-security-center/internet-security/social-media-dangers/privacy-violations-in-social-media While doing a little bit of internet surfing about Santiago's topic of privacy and security I found an article from an interesting source. This source is from a security company (certainly a stakeholder in this topic). While Santiago's post talks more about the legislation put in place (or lack thereof) protecting people's privacy, the article I found talks more about what type of breaches are happening. A new vocabulary word for me from the article I found was "data scraping". This essentially is just some third party company that buys or collects all the data from someone's social media or accounts. This data scraping takes record of their interactions with other users, their l...

 Something I've been spending a lot of time doing recently (although I may regret it when I have major assignments due in a timely manner) is playing Pokemon. One of my friends has a Nintendo switch and has reintroduced me to Pokemon (one of my favorite games from when I was little). I was unaware that Pokemon games were still coming out, and now that they're on the Nintendo switch they look even better and feel so much smoother to play than on the original DS that I originally played on. However, I noticed while playing these new Pokemon games that they seemed much less challenging that previous games I played when they were released on the original DS. I wasn't sure at first whether this was due to my higher intelligence or if this was really something that the Pokemon franchise was doing on purpose. So, I took to the internet and found an article sort of discussing this issue as others have found this to be true as well. The article helps to discuss the idea of the who t...

 here’s me posting something to make sure this works :)