Identity Theft Video

http://vimeo.com/34840003
This is my final project.

Reflection: November 30, 2011

Today I feel proud of myself because I actually got to work and did a lot. I started my process journal in google docs so I can have access to it whenever and wherever. I also had to change some of my blog posts because I was going to do digital communication and since I changed it, I needed accurate information for my theme. I changed my facts for the Digital Law and not for digital communication. I started my thesis on my theme and also did a summary on my new facts. I started the bibliography so I can continue adding more if I need to, and I will update everything I did.

PSA Reflection

     Today, I got together with my partner and decided that under Digital Law, we will do Identity Theft. We talked about what is is and it basically means that thieves steal your identity, credit cards, social security cards, bills, and other personal information. We talked about how there are many ways of thieves to do that and thought about the possible ways we can make the people watching our video understand and become aware of this theme.
     We have assigned ourselves some homework. We will think of the different ways to create this project and we will basically brainstorm some ideas each so we can talk about them and decide on which one to do. Since we have already talked about two ways thieves steal your identity, we already have started to create ideas. One of them is that we are teenagers and we are about to go to college, but when we are applying for some kind of financial aid, we are denied to that privilege because of some money we own to companies. This can be one easy way to create our project because we are teenagers and we wouldn't need as many props or settings so it is easy for us.
     By using the Attitudes in Technology Criterion F Rubric, I would give myself a 100 because I have constantly been working, and better, in partner. I am 100% committed with my partner to create this project. I will be very helpful if my partner, Marisol, has any problem during the procedure of the making of this video and I will do my part creating this video so I won't let my partner do everything. I will be a part of creating this video and I will get a good grade in this Criterion, Attitudes in Technology.

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1.Digital Communication is the ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE of information.  (10 point)

2.Who uses Digital Communication ? ALMOST EVERYONE .

3.Southpark cartoon discusses how on Facebook can TAKE OVER your life.   (10 point)

4.How do we use Digital Communication? TEXTING, SOCIAL NETWORKS, MEDIA SITES, INSTANT MESSAGES. (10 point)

5.What is the potential for misuse? TEXTING AND DRIVING. DISTRACTING, CHEATING. (10 point)

6.Where is the danger for misuse that impacts you daily? MAny misuses distract you from what you are doing or what you have to do. (10 pt)

FACEBOOK MANNERS

7.What is the expected time you believe is appropriate to change your FB status? When you notify the other person (10 point)

8.What is your opinion about FB manners? There are many people that misuse the facebook for other things. Whoever uses it should know how to act. (10 point)

9. What are the benefits of Digital Communication? FAST , EASY, ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY.

(10 point)

10.  What is your opinion? Is this proper use of digital communication? RESPECT it. (10 point)

PSA Plan Worksheet

1. What issue/ topic did you choose?

             Digital Communication

2. Why is this important?

              It is important because almost everyone uses digital communication.

3. Who do you want to reach? (target audience)

              The target audience is teenagers basically.

4. What is the behavior your looking to change?

              I'm looking to change the way people communicate using the internet or digital access by showing       them to think before they write.

5. Why doesn’t the audience already engage in this behavior?

             Many people forgot about the proper ways to use social network and now don't care.

6. What emotional appeal can you make?

             The emotional appeal would be to future consequences.

7. Belonging; Power/Control; Fun: Safety;

            

8. Put your audience in a situation/scenario where the issue would come up in their lives.

             Addie, an idea student has posted many things on facebook, not knowing the digital footprint she will leave. Later on, hen she want to be accepted at college, she worries about all those posts she posted years ago.

9. Where are they? (setting)

             Social Network, Facebook.

10. Who is there? (characters)

              Addie, friends, and college directors.

11. What’s’ going on around them?  ( ambient sound)

             Serious music.

12. What are they saying? (dialogue)

13. Who is message brought to you by? ( Station; organization)

              THis message is brought by IDEA students.

1. The 2011 Identity Fraud Survey Report reports showed that the number of victims that suffered from identity fraud decreased by 28 percent to 8.1 million adults in the United States. The results showed that in the year prior to that there was three million more victims. Source

2. Two out of three victims that suffer from identity theft are unaware of the source of the crime

3. A survey of more than 1,500 identity theft victims shows that approximately three out of four, or 72%, do not know the source of the crime, according to ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance Center.

4. Of the 1,530 victims helped by ITAC, twenty-eight percent said they knew the source of the crime.

• Followed by computer-related identity crime (21.6%).

• Lost/stolen wallet, checkbook or credit card accounts for 15.1%

• Corrupt businesses or employees also at (11.6%)

• And breaches of consumer data accounted for 4.7% of the cases

5. Although all types of fraud declined over the past year, new account fraud was responsible for the greatest fraud amount ($17 billion). New account fraud, in which accounts have been opened without the victim’s knowledge, is harder to detect and is the most likely to severely impact the victims. Existing card fraud amounts declined by 38 percent to $14 billion from $23 billion in 2009.

6. Friendly fraud - fraud perpetrated by people known to the victim, such as a relative or roommate - grew seven percent last year, with consumers between the ages of 25-34 most likely to be victims of this type of fraud. People in this age group are most likely to have their Social Security number (SSN) stolen—with 41 percent of fraud victims in this group reporting theft of their SSN.

Source: ITAC (Identity Theft Assistance Center)

7. A breakdown of the figures in identity theft since 2005 in the US ranks credit card fraud with the highest number of fraud at 26%. Source

8. The median value of goods and services obtained by identity thieves was $500, while 10% of the population experienced a theft of $6,000 or more. Source

9. Next on line in Identity theft statistics accounting for 18 % of all cases is phone and utility fraud. In this form of fraud, an identity thief will assume your identity through accessing your phone and utility bills and goes on to impersonate the owner of the information for their own purposes. These contacts are mostly sold to another party who will use it to fraudulently obtain money. Source

10. While victims are finding out about their cases earlier, it is taking far longer now than before to eliminate negative information from credit reports. Source

QUIA

America Offline-What does this mean? 
It means that American people don't have internet. 

digital divide- How does this impact you as a students?
As students, this really affects us because we are now a technology generation so we need these resources that are mainly in the internet.

Unequal Access-How can lack of access to the internet impact your future? MOBILE ACCESS
Mobile Access affects our future because the more the people start using the internet in their mobile phones, the more we come dependent on them. And if right now we are very dependent, then in the future, I believe, it will be more stronger.

Innovators-How will lack of digital access impact us as a country?
The lack of internet access affects the country because all the other countries that are advanced in technology will become more advanced and we will become a Less Developed Country.

What are the options for better Access


Explain the Final Recommendations?

What could be done to increase internet access and create more choices for communities nationwide?

What actions need to be taken to keep the internet open for users and innovators?