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Steve Ransom

Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal ... - 0 views

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  • "Our kids today will give everything [in terms of personal information] away, but it's not at all clear how this will shake out in the long run,"
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      Steve Ransom on 12 Jun 09
       
      A marketer's gold mine, among other things.
  • And what about the person you don't really know who wants to be your friend because you have some friends in common? According to Hoffman, that new friend may just be mining your social circle for information. As networks grow and more friends of friends (and their friends) are accepted by users, it's unclear who can be trusted.
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      Steve Ransom on 12 Jun 09
       
      Hmmmm... this has occurred to me before, but I'm not sure how real it is our how paranoid we should be. However, we do need to take a look at our followers' digital footprints (blogs, tweets, posts, pages,...) if suspect.
  • Hoffman illustrated how social connections are made online and the ease with which a stranger can become part of a network.
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  • When a business contact from the LinkedIn world wants to become your friend on Facebook, do you accept the invitation, giving them access to the photos on your Facebook profile from last summer's rowdy beach party?
  • Third-party applications, he argued, can take that data outside of the friendly confines of a social networking site and combine it with data from other sources to piece together enough information to steal a person's identity.
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      Steve Ransom on 12 Jun 09
       
      That's always been my feeling about 3rd party apps. I don't use them for the most part.
  • According to Acquisti, people are more likely to divulge key personal information -- their photo, birthday, hometown, address and phone number -- on social networking sites than they would on other web sites
  • In one study, Acquisti found that that people will divulge information when they see others doing so. That tendency, he believes, may explain why so many people are willing to dish out personal information on the networks.
  • Holy Grail for marketers is to track consumers and their friends -- and what they say about a product -- via social networks. "People are more willing to divulge information for social purposes, and the lead users are 18 to 25 years old," Bradlow notes. "The social norms around privacy aren't going to be what they were before."
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    The information provides opportunities not only for legitimate business purposes, but also for the nefarious aims of identity thieves and other predators, according to faculty at Wharton and elsewhere.
Steve Ransom

CBC News - Toronto - Toronto conference to focus on Facebook risks - 11 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
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    Users of social networking sites, she said, should "beware of the five Ps" - professors, prospective employers, parents, police and predators.... Cavoukian says 77 per cent of all employers check out prospective employees on Facebook before they make hiring decisions.
Martin Burrett

Evolution - 0 views

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    Interactive activity about environmental selective evolution. The birds eat the non-camouflaged bugs and the camouflaged bugs' numbers increase. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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Evolution Flash Activity - 0 views

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    Interactive activity about environmental selective evolution. The birds eat the non-camouflaged bugs and the camouflaged bugs' numbers increase. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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