1. How badly do you think the environment is affected by electronic waste?
Answer: In my opinion, the environment is severely affected by this. As you see in the video, toxic fumes were everywhere in the air around Ghana. When they burn cords, computers, or any other parts of technology, it is very dangerous and unhealthy. Towards the end of the video, it showed a guy working with the acid bath and he said "Some of the fumes make me really sick and it's ruining my life." This is a serious issue that could be fixed by people not throwing away technology carelessly.
2. What would you do if someone had access to your personal information?
Answer: Well that's usually what happens when people throw away a computer that is still working. Isn't that very scary? One of the guys tested a couple of hard drives to see if they actually still worked and amazingly, they worked perfectly fine. Some of them saw credit card numbers, and personal documents. People don't realize if they throw a decent computer with the hard drive still in it, there is still information on it, which could increase identity theft.
3. How do you feel that our nation's safety could be greatly affected?
Answer: This is also ties into with in personal information because they have accessed federal documents in the hard drives. That definitely impacts our safety because there was one document that was a 22 million dollar contract and it was for the Defensive Intelligence Agency (DIA). If they have access to this kind of information, that means they can access plans about the Federal Government. This needs to be stopped immediately!
Here's the link to the video:
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html
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