User:Casademasa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Information privacy

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was assigned. My first impression of this article is that it tends to jump around more general to topics to more specific examples, and is not necessarily giving a generalized overview of the topic.

Evaluate the article

 * The lead section is very concise but is a little too sparse as it does not detail what the article will cover, but provides only a few sentences of general information.
 * The cable TV section is sparse and relies very heavily on a direct quote instead of summary.
 * The financial privacy section could have been more well-cited or included more implications about financial privacy other than just identity theft and consumer surveillance.
 * While the information types section goes into more generalized information about its relevance to the topic, the education section uses a very specific example from the U.K.
 * The internet section makes some argumentative claims and suggestions of how to keep information safe online, and this deviates from a simply informational article.
 * It is not clear if this article is attempting to explore a global generalizable coverage of the topic, as it uses selective examples in the information types section.
 * I think the internet section could have gone into more depth about social media and cookie tracking but it does provide a good introductory overview.
 * The locational section only mentions one MIT study and so it is not very generalizable or expansive on this topic.
 * The bulk of the articles sources are from the early 2000's, a lot has changed when it comes to technology and privacy and so this article should be updated with more current materials.
 * This article is at a good starting point, but a lot of the sections are very vague and underdeveloped. This article could use more work to flesh out the ideas started.