To Teach or Not to Teach: The Ethics of Metadata (original) (raw)

Education 3-13, 2009

Abstract

In a recent television commercial, Dan Hesse, President of Sprint stated an important point: technology is only great if you know how to use it. Since the advent of the computer, schools have done their best to teach students to use these amazing new machines. For better or worse, however, many computer users only understand these devices at a very rudimentary level. Sometimes that is for the best. Dennis Rader, the infamous BTK killer, terrorized Wichita, Kansas and eluded police for 30 years. He may have been a clever killer, but he had only basic computer knowledge. As part of his taunting communications to police, he asked them whether there was any way for them to trace him if he sent them his writings on a floppy disk. Naturally, the police said they could not. According to the United States Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, the case was solved by using hidden information called metadata to link a computer disk mailed to a television stat...

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