" El que no tiene hecha no tiene sospecha"

Right now in Puerto Rico, the government is trying to pass a law to prevent the sell of prepaid cellphone without a digital print of who owns it. Prepaid cellphones to me are great. I travel a lot so to avoid roaming costs I buy a prepaid cellphone. For example last summer I was in Chile and decided to buy a cellphone, it cost me 40 bucks and another 20 to recharge it. Even though I had this cellphone I sometimes had to use my Iphone for emails and other stuff, when the Iphone bill arrived I had to pay $400 bucks, $200 more than what I would normally pay just because I used it a couple of time. Another use for a prepaid phone is that it comes really handy when your real phone breaks. Companies are really smart, if for any reason your phone breaks and you don't have insurgence you will have to pay a lot. So this are some uses of the prepaid phone. 

Unfortunately as we all know prepaid cellphones are used for other reasons, mainly criminals use phones to avoid keeping record of the calls they make due to the anonymity of the use of prepaid phones. That being said I completely support the tracking of this devices even if they become a little more expensive, because in this case (and in this case only) if you haven't done anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about.

Tracking devices and privacy.

Hi,
Today I would like to talk  about privacy issues, especially about the implications of implanting or putting a tracking device on kids, teens and seniors. I would like to start this discussion by saying that in the matters of personal security everyone is responsible for themselves ( or parents are responsible for their children). So that said I believe that it is a choice. I know of existing tracking devices being used in children right now, and I can understand it. If my son got lost I would give a kidney in order to know where he is, so in terms of children I believe it to be an asset for parents, in case their children is hyperactive or simply if they want to take an extra step to keep him or her safe. Even if this is so I wouldn't support a bill that obliges parents to put a tracking device on their children. Choice is the big word here and everyone should be able to have it.

Now when we are talking about teens we should make a clear distinction. Teen often have trusting issues with their parent and vice versa. A teen could never trust a parent that doesn't trust him or her. I know of certain apps for smartphones that let you track the location of your son or daughter, and in my opinion that right there is a violation of privacy. I don't think that by tracking your teens location, and then questioning them about it will make any change in behavior. If someone is worried about the behavior of their child they should give that child space and opportunity to speak, not judge, punish and mistrust, the only thing that that is going to result in is in more distrust and bad behavior.

As I said about children I think that the same applies to Alzheimer patients. This person doesn't have the faculties to take care of themselves so in this case it would be good to be able to track their location in case they wandered off.

CS408-01 "The push"

Hi everybody,

This is really cool. I have been debating the idea of making a blog for a long time. A lot of friends back home (Puerto Rico) have one, but I always felt that what I had to say was not that important or  correct. Anyways this was "The push" I needed. Sometimes we care so much about what is correct in society and what is correct for us to say that we forget there is freedom of speech, that we don't need to feel bottled up when something bothers us, or when we see something wrong. I understand the need to be polite and to try and not offend people, that's why I think there are so many words, so that we can express what we feel in ways that are not offensive, and at the same time release us of the burdens of our thoughts.

Well I hope to see you all in class.

Victor