In my English 102 class, we’re doing a six-phase research paper, with each phase adding new concepts we are learning in the reasoning selection from the “research and reasoning” menu. I tried to meet the objectives and keep the flow smooth. This is phase four. I suspect revisions in future phases will smooth that out even further. I’m quite liking this concept of revisions. I must say, I wouldn’t bother to do it unless forced by circumstance, as it’s a tremendous amount of intellectual and emotional labor. The results, in my estimation, certainly reflect the effort I put into them.

The second draft of my English Composition II research paper is turned in and getting graded. I’m still not sure how this story ends. As to the answer to the question in the title, Betteridge’s Law of Headlines suggests the answer is, “No.” Future revisions will explore why and what we can do about it. In the conclusion, I explore examples of too little protection, as well as too much, and how important it is that we get this right; because the training datasets for machine learning systems probably won’t rely on scooping up vast amounts of random user data for long.