Each week in recent years it seems as though personal accounts, data, web traffic, private information, etc are being leaked. One only needs to look at places such as facebook, target or even and some android phones. This week victims of an information leak are said to be nearly every person in Ecuador which is around twenty million citizens including seven million minors. The breach was sourced back to an unsecured server in Miami leaking information such as "full names, date, and place of birth, home and email addresses, national identification numbers and taxpayer numbers, employment information, and more."(yeung), along with financial information. Since the breach, the government is in a mad rush to address and fix the breach and have detained the believed suspect. The thing that is unnerving about leaks and breaches like these is that once the information is out there it will never be forgotten, what is done can never be taken back, the internet is forever and now those citizens personal information is too.
The NCAA has finally come with the times and is now acting to "embrace change" by allowing college athletes to be paid for use of their name image and likeness. This is not a new problem and has been talked about and made fun of for years and years. Even the Olympics, the most prestigious sporting event in history, has allowed athletes to participate and sponsored for more than 30 years. So now that athletes in the NCAA will be able to profit what is next. It is agreed upon the school can not and will not directly pay the athlete. But let's say the coach of a team starts a shoe business and signs all his athletes to that shoe brand and any recruits who sign will get a shoe deal as well. Won't that create bad recruiting practices? What do you think
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