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Tanveer Mostafa

BBC News - Facebook acts on follower trade - 0 views

  • Facebook acts on follower trade
  • It also wanted USocial to stop helping members break the site's terms and conditions, specifically letting people profit from their profile.
Pranav Gogia

Chicago Cameras Everywhere - 0 views

  • Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere
    • Pranav Gogia
       
      Social & Ethical Issues-Privacy
Pranav Gogia

T-Mobile Staff Sold Personal Data - 0 views

  • T-Mobile staff sold personal data
    • Pranav Gogia
       
      Social & Ethical Issues-Privacy
Pranav Gogia

Computer Device Helps Diabetics - 0 views

  • Computer device 'helps' diabetics
    • Pranav Gogia
       
      Area of Impacts-Health
Chalana Perera

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | UK surveillance plan to go ahead - 2 views

  • asking firms to retain information on how people use social networks such as Facebook.
  • ecret security services have legal powers in the UK to intercept communications in the interests of combating crime or threats to national security.
  • The Home Office says it wants to change the law to compel communication service providers (CSPs) to collect and retain records of communications from a wider range of internet sources, from social networks through to chatrooms and unorthodox methods, suc

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  • More communication via computers rather than phones



    Companies won't always keep all data all the time



    Anonymity online masks criminal identities



    More online services provided from abroad



    Data held in many locations and difficult to find
  • Communications data is crucial to the fight against crime and in keeping people safe. It is a highly technical area and one which demands a fine balance between privacy and maintaining the capabilities of the police and security services
  • recognition of the role of data in protecting the public
Chalana Perera

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams - 0 views




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  • the exam room the floor is covered in cables. IT experts are busy helping the teenagers set up their laptops, making sure they all work.
  • they can use the internet to answer any of the four questions.
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  • the internet is so much a part of daily life, it should be included in the classroom and in examinations.
  • Pupils' integrity

    The pupils themselves told me they did not think their classmates would abuse the system.

  • The teachers also think the nature of the questions make it harder to cheat in exams
    Chalana Perera

    Google launches Maps tool for finding flu vaccine | Webware - CNET - 0 views

    • users can now visit Google's new flu shot Google Maps page to find out if there is any vaccine available in their area.
    • users can input their Zip code or town and find all the vaccine available in their area
    • has yet to receive information on flu shots from many locations.
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    • e vaccine providers aware of the project so that they can contribute."
    • working with the Centers for Disease Control
    Eunice Vincent

    BBC NEWS | UK | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | Voters' details on stolen laptop - 0 views

    • Voters' details on stolen laptop
      • Rafae Wathra
         
        Rafae
    • Eunice Vincent
       
      Names, addresses and signatures of 14,000 voters are on a laptop stolen from a council's offices in Hertfordshire.
    Eunice Vincent

    BBC News : Two held in global PC fraud probe - 1 views

    • Eunice Vincent
       
      Two suspected hackers are arrested in an investigation into software designed to steal banking information.
    Rafae Wathra

    Switzerland takes Google to court - 0 views

    Rafae Wathra

    BBC NEWS | UK | T-Mobile staff sold personal data - 0 views

    • Staff at mobile phone company T-Mobile passed on millions of records from thousands of customers to third party brokers, the firm has confirmed.
      • Rafae Wathra
         
        Rafae
    • The Data Protection Act bans the selling on of data without prior permission from the customer and a fine of £5,000 can be imposed following a successful prosecution.
    YooJin Jung

    BBC NEWS | Technology | Medical debut for smart band aid - 0 views

    Maliha Rahman

    Patients Turn To Online Community For Help Healing : NPR - 0 views

    YooJin Jung

    BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Girls 'becoming Facebook addicts' - 1 views

    Jeff Ratliff

    Teen's Facebook update gets robbery charges dropped - 2 views

    • Jeff Ratliff
       
      A teenager accused of a robbery in New York had charges dropped after he argued that he was on Facebook and it was confirmed that a post was made from his account.

      However, anyone could have made the post.
    • Bassel Kanj
       
      Yeah, I heard of this case.

      I could easily write a macro to update my Facebook status every X minutes for a specified amount of time.
    Jeff Ratliff

    Cyberchondria - audio - 1 views

    • Jeff Ratliff
       
      Web Sickness
      November 13, 2009

      Cyberchondria refers to the practice of using Internet search engines to wrongly diagnose oneself with serious illnesses. Carolyn Butler, columnist for The Washington Post, talks about how cyberchondria came to be and she discusses her own bout with the dread disease.
    Richard Stevenson

    Video Demonstrations of Robotics Principles - 1 views

    • Richard Stevenson
       
      video demos of robots
    Richard Stevenson

    WikiMatrix - Compare them all - 1 views

    shared by Richard Stevenson on 11 Nov 09 - Snapshot
    • Richard Stevenson
       
      compare wikis
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