Source Protection and Privacy

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Article Evaluation #1 - Privacy + Software

The Wikipedia article entitled "Privacy Software" includes relevant information to its main topic. It mentioned the different platforms in which privacy software can be used in addition to types of systems that typically use privacy software. While the article include a "legal issues" section, it only mentioned the United States briefly and India as a foreign country. While the two may provide context to contrasting privacy software regulations, it does not provide breadth of information on the topic.Additionally, while it outline how privacy software protects users, including information about what typical attacks may be could improve the article.

The article is very neutral and provides different settings for the topic to be applied from the individual to a company level. again, the article tends to center privacy software in the United States and only mentions India as another country. Providing a more global perspective can contribute to a less U.S-centric tone.

The links in the article do work and support the statements in the article. However, the article is severely lacking references. The sources are neutral as well and only speak to the merits of privacy software and security.

There are no conversations on the talk page, behind the scenes. It is part of the "WikiProject Computing." The article is rated as a "Start-Class" -- which is incomplete and developing. I have not had many conversations about privacy software, but I think because the article is developing it lacks an academic and scholarly tone that may be used in class.

Article Evaluation #2 - Privacy + Google Street View

Everything in the article is relevant to the topic. One thing that I found distracting was how the public concerns were discussed interchangeably with the legal concerns of Google Street view. The way it was written made it seem that the public concern was equal to legal concerns, when they may be very separate issues of different magnitudes. The information provided all falls within the past decade, which is relatively recent with the advent of the Google Street View capabilities. I think the public concern conversation could be better distinguished from the legal concerns. While the article spends a lot of text talking about legal implications, it mentions public concerns briefly which blurs the lines between the two for me.

The article appears to be critical of Google Street View -- though it is entitled "Google Street View Privacy Concerns." Naturally, these concerns are not in support of Google Street View. The article seems to provide a balanced amount of information about the U.S., Europe, and other countries that are impacted by Google Street View. I think a viewpoint that is underrepresented is the "every day citizen" point of view. There is heavy legal language and concerns of nations and countries, but little mention of ways in which families and citizens are affected.

A vast amount of the sources are news and popular media. However, there is inclusion of official government and ministry reports from countries who are debating the use of Google Street View. The links to support the claims in the article and also help provide more context for each country's privacy concerns. This article does have appropriate and reliable sources that backs up every statement in the page.

Conversations on the talk page range from clarification on technical terms to fixing links that did not work before. One person even asks for clarification on a foreign country's experience with Google technology. The article is rated as "B-class, Low importance" and is a part of the WikiProject for Internet, Maps, and Google. The conversation may be similar to one we may have in class. It relies on credible sources and also touches on the social implications of technology. It explicitly centers the "concerns" regarding the technology, and provides several global experiences.