In the beginning of the week, we learned about tracking. At first, the concept scared me and now, it still scares me. It is insane that the internet contains so much information about the people that use it. I came to the conclusion that there the government needs to regulate tracking to give the citizens a choice on whether they want to be tracked or not, and to create consequences for companies that violate a citizen's information. As of now, companies can sell your personal information, and you can't do anything about it. There is no legislation to stop them. After we decided if we agreed or disagreed on the matter of government regulation, everyone in the class split into separate groups. In the agree group we talked about the issues with tracking and decided that the people need to have a choice when it comes to tracking. By the end of our discussion, I was pretty decided that tracking was one of the worst things in the world. I couldn't see how anyone would disagree, and started creating a closed mind on the subject. However, when all the groups came back together for a discussion, the person that argued for no government regulation helped me understand the flip side of the matter. One thing they said was that tracking helps companies know how to best meet the needs of the people and that when companies create profiles of people online they never use names, making it hard to violate a person's information. Although I still think tracking is wrong, that discussion made me understand both sides of the argument and helped me keep an open mind to others' opinions. http://www.qatardebate.org/debate-and-debating/benefits-of-debating
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