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Vicki Davis

Facebook Increasingly Becomes a Helpful Tool for Employers in Job Interviews | Moneylan... - 6 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Mar 12
     
    It is legal for a prospective employer during a job interview to ask you to log into your facebook page and click through your friends only posts, photos, and messages. This is a very important topic for digital citizens to understand.
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  • Mark Meyers on 19 Mar 12
     
    This is an important article. I'm going to discuss it with my Digiteen class this morning and have them comment here.
  • Brazil W. on 19 Mar 12
     
    I don't think that is fair. The employer has no right to be a part of their personal life. Although, they need to know about what they say on the internet. I would not want someone i don't know looking at my profile page.
  • mikaylaw on 19 Mar 12
     
    This is a good and a bad thing. It is a good thing because if someone is bad than you know not to hire them. it is a bad thing because people should not be judged on what their friends post. Just because their friends might post bad things does not mean that they are bad.
  • Austin R HDS on 19 Mar 12
     
    Well, for me the act of "shoulder surfing" is good as well bad. It is good because as an employer if I don't know the maybe future employee this would be good to base my opinion on whether or not to hire them. This also can be bad, as the future employee may have private conversation with his or her wife that they do not want anyone to see (this is just to give an example).
  • John H HDS on 19 Mar 12
     
    I guess i could understand why they have this. I personally like this idea in most ways, but not all. For example, its good for finding if the person your employing is a criminal, or someone bad. But its kind of bad because what if someone is not accepted because they were talking with a 'special someone' and the employers saw. That doesn't really seem fair to me, because that is your personal PERSONAL info, and no one else needs to see it besides you and who you are talking to. Unless of course its about something bad like planning something illegal. The main downside i see in this is maybe that person created a fake Facebook that looks all great and seems like they are a good person. Then a not-so-good person might have gotten a job that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. I can't really decide if this is good or bad, but for now, I'm going to say it's bad.
  • Abby Boras on 19 Mar 12
     
    Well i think it is 50/50, because you have to be careful of what you put out there. And i don't think they should go on your friends facebook account to look at there posts and not yours! I also don't think they should judge you by your friends!
  • Brenna Edwards on 19 Mar 12
     
    I dont know exactly if this is fair or not. I can see where employers are coming from by wanting to see their possible employees facebook account, but i also think that a lot of the stuff that we may post may be completely personal while being completely innocent. everyone needs privacy and if they decide to do that through facebook then they have the right.
  • gatorguy58 on 19 Mar 12
     
    I think its a good video to watch because it definitely made me think. The video also scared me even thought i don't have a Facebook. I now know how to stay safe if i get one.
  • Jonathan C HDS on 19 Mar 12
     
    I think that the post is mean. I don't really like the post because it makes the person look bad.
Steve Madsen

LimeWire 'induces' copyright theft - 2 views

www.smh.com.au/...right-theft-20100513-uzc1.html

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shared by Steve Madsen on 13 May 10 - Cached
  • Steve Madsen on 13 May 10
     
    "A US judge has ruled in favor of 13 music companies in a copyright case against popular online file-sharing service LimeWire."
  • Steve Madsen on 13 May 10
     
    the evidence establishes that LimeWire users directly infringed plaintiffs' copyrights, and that LimeWire engaged in purposeful conduct intended to foster that infringement
Vicki Davis

Can the law keep up with technology? - CNN.com - 2 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Love posted allegedly derogatory and false comments about the designer -- among them that she had a "history of dealing cocaine" -- on her now-discontinued Twitter feed.
  • it's typically difficult to predict or anticipate technology innovations.
  • Is the Web a unique, separate space or is it really an extension of real space?
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  • "We really haven't thought about this much because there haven't been many generations of users with copious digital assets to even trigger the need to think about what happens if they pass away," Matwyshyn said.
  • the school provided alternative reasons for denying Snyder a degree
  • Cohen sued Google to learn the name of the anonymous blogger on the grounds that the post was defamatory and libelous. A New York Supreme Court judge ordered Google to reveal the anonymous blogger's name, and Google complied.
  • In 2006, Stacy Snyder was a 25-year-old single mother hoping to begin a career as an educator. She had finished her coursework and was a student teacher. Yet Millersville University, located in Pennsylvania, wouldn't give her a degree.
  • The case provided insight into the debate between the competing values of privacy and free speech, said Jeffrey Toobin, CNN's senior legal analyst.
  • "It can't take the place of good manners, social norms and etiquette -- the kind of thing that has always governed negotiations about face-to-face behavior.
  • "We should never expect that the judges are going to save us from our own worst impulses."
  • Vicki Davis on 18 Nov 09
     
    An excellent article to make the case for digital citizenship education, I love the quote at the end that the law "can't take the place of good manners, social norms, and etiquette." Do we think that students just develop good manners on their own? Perhaps manners, norms, and etiquette would much better evolve with multiple generations and ages working together as we discuss and grapple with such issues. This is another excellent article about the changing state of the law and the Internet and includes the precedent that anonymous doesn't really mean anonymous any more - particularly if the anonymous person breaks the law.
  • Vicki Davis on 18 Nov 09
     
    Excellent article about the changing legal issues of the Internet.
Maggie H

Internet Overuse May Cause Depression - 0 views

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shared by Maggie H on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Teenagers who are addicted to the Internet are more likely to develop depression or other psychiatric problems than teens who are classified as normal Internet users,
  • Researchers say that their work suggests that teens who use the Internet pathologically may be about 2.5 times more likely to develop depression than  teens who are not addicted to the Internet.
  • Researchers in Australia and China studied pathological or uncontrolled Internet use and later mental health problems in 1,041 teenage students in China. The students were free of depression and anxiety at the start of the study. Sixty-two of the teenagers were classified at the start of the study as being moderately pathological users of the Internet, and two were found to be severely at risk for uncontrollable urges to go online. Nine months later, the youngsters were evaluated again for anxiety and depression and 87 were judged as having developed depression. Eight reported significant
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  • The youths in the study were between 13 and 18 and attended high schools in Guangzhou, China.
  • Maggie H on 24 Oct 12
     
    Teenagers that use the Internet pathologically are 2.5 times more likely to develop depression than teens that use it normally.
Kellie C

How to Prevent Culture Clashes | Africa Magazine Online | ReConnect Africa - 0 views

www.reconnectafrica.com/...o-prevent-culture-clashes.html

shared by Kellie C on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Why do cultures clash? Culture clashes occur when we judge the behaviour of a person from another culture using our own values. For example, a British approach to time may be that there is never enough and so we use it carefully and make sure we don't waste it. Another culture may see time as something they don't need to control so strictly and see a flexible response to things as more useful. These two different approaches can quickly lead to clashes in a business setting.
  • Kellie C on 24 Oct 12
     
    This website tells about how to prevent internet culture clashes.
Vicki Davis

Cyberspace isn't a place - Irish Judge * The Register - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...charleton_eircom_emi

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
  • "Among younger people, so much has the habit grown up of downloading copyright material from the internet that a claim of entitlement seems to have arisen to have what is not theirs for free."
  • UK's Digital Economy Act - that internet access is a 'fundamental human right', and that copyright enforcement infringes privacy.
  • After 28 days and two letters, the ISP may serve a 14-day disconnection notice during which time the user may appeal or promise to stop for good.
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 10
     
    ARticle on copyright infringement lawas and how this is being interpreted in Ireland.
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