Question

After reviewing the resources and taking notes, decide where you stand. Should the government—and schools—be able to access your social media and cellphone information? If so, under what circumstances? Write your response below. Make sure to clearly state your position on the topic and support it with strong reasons and specific examples.

Answer 1

Yes, if schools have a “Monitoring Program” they have rights to check. Also Government uses “Social media monitoring” in order to protect our country from terrorism.

Explanation:

Schools throughout America, from Florida to California, have already been tracking their student's social media profiles over the last few years. Although there is no guarantee that students don't want educational institutions to look at their social media profiles, public information monitoring can help protect children from illegal or abusive behavior.

For Example: Monitoring software helped Florida school launch 12 criminal investigations in 2015.

Government security organizations such as the NSA also can hack the computers. This ensures that intelligence agencies will listen to your phone calls, read your tweets; record your images, monitor your videos, check your emails, and snatch your data, at any time they want. Surveillance helps authorities to keep social control, detect risks, prevent and prosecute criminal behavior.

Answer 2

Answer:

Yes, I think that even social media and cell phone information is personal it should be reviewed if there are enough reasons to think that you are a threat to others.  

Explanation:

Currently there are constants news of shootings in social spaces like malls, schools, bars, metro stations and so on. The persons that commit those crimes might leave leads in their social media that can become important to prevent these crimes.  

The most recent case of shooting in the Santa Clarita school in California depict how social media is always investigated to determine the motives of these crimes. Therefore, would not be better to look social media before these events occur? From this perspective I agree with the access to social media and cell phone content .