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Maliha Rahman

BBC NEWS | Technology | Anger at UK file-sharing policy - 0 views

  • The government is proposing a tougher stance which would include cutting off repeat offenders from the net.
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      Areas of Impact > Government
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      Areas of Impact > Government
  • There are many families whose children, unbeknown to them, might be illegally downloading but now their own access could be put in jeopardy by Lord Mandelson's proposals."
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      Social > Authenticity
  • 'Digital piracy is a serious problem and a real threat to the UK's creative industries," it said in a statement.
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      IT systems > Networking
anonymous

BBC NEWS | Technology | Government opens data to public - 7 views

  • Government opens data to public
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      Claimed by Iman and Dol.
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    Iman's and Dol's Article
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    Iman's and Dol's Article
ajay tambay

BBC - dot.life: Teenage hackers: Making a better world - 0 views

  • Around 70 teenagers had gathered for this weekend event which is the brainchild of Rewired State - an organisation thinking of clever ways to free up public data.
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      Social - Equality , Globalization
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
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  • One group was seeking a way to scrape bus timetable information from the Transport For London website
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      IT Systems - comm sys (internet)
  • they mingled, discussed software, the rights and wrongs of file-sharing, how to get free access to Spotify's premium music streaming service - and how they'd found out about the event through a friend or some enthusiastic teacher
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      Impact - education
  • Sunday afternoon, they presented their ideas to a panel of government officials and web luminaries. Among the winners was that group trying to free up London bus data - TFHell won the "Most Likely to be Bought By Google" award. One of the judges, Ben Hammersley of Wired UK, said he "found the standard of the work produced by 15-18-year-olds in many cases infinitely superior to that produced by government professionals."
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      Impact - Business
YooJin Jung

Facebook must satisfy Canada's privacy commissioner by Monday - 0 views

  • "serious privacy gaps."
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      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
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      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
  • o take the California-based company to Federal Court in Ottawa to try and get a court order requiring it to change its business practices to comply with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the country's private-sector privacy law.
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      area of impact-politics&government
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      area of impact-politics&government
  • Facebook users must consent to share all their personal information, except their contact details.
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      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
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      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
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      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
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  • "serious privacy gaps."
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      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
  • he social-networking website
Sanchit Jain

Pirate Party launches UK poll bid - 1 views

  • non-commercial internet file-sharing
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      Social and Ethical Impact: Intellectual property
  • peer-to-peer networking
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      IT Systems in a Social Context: Software Applications Communications Systems --downloading illegally off other people through the internet
  • future government policy,
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      Areas of Impact: -Government
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  • entertainment industry
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      Areas of Impact: Entertainment
Jeff Ratliff

Criminal hacker 'Iceman' gets 13 years (ComputerWorld) - 0 views

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    A former security researcher turned criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers. Max Ray Butler, who used the hacker pseudonym Iceman, was sentenced Friday morning in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud and identity theft. In addition to his 13-year sentence, Butler will face five years of supervised release and must pay US$27.5 million in restitution to his victims, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Luke Dembosky, who prosecuted the case for the federal government. Dembosky believes the 13 year sentence is the longest-ever handed down for hacking charges.
Maliha Rahman

Prevention from sexting (all business) Criterion B - 0 views

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    This article briefly discusses the idea of Sexting and solutions that many people are trying to come up with to prevent it from happening. It talks about how they have to come up with a solution but also consider the importance of technology that plays in teenagers lives.
Jeff Ratliff

Apple + iPad + Huxley = Orwellian nightmare (Guardian) - 1 views

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    "WATCHING STEVE JOBS unveil the Apple iPad, what came to mind was something that Neil Postman, the most influential media critic since Marshall McLuhan, once said. Our future possibilities, Postman thought, lay on a spectrum bounded by George Orwell at one end, and by Aldous Huxley at the other: Orwell because he believed that we would be destroyed by the things we fear; Huxley because he thought that we would be undone by the things we love. As the internet went mainstream, the Orwellian nightmare has evolved into a realistic possibility, because of the facilities the network offers for the comprehensive surveillance so vividly evoked in 1984. Governments everywhere have helped themselves to powers to read every email or text you've ever sent. And that's just the democracies; authoritarian regimes are far more intrusive."
Jeff Ratliff

Google threatens to leave China (Independent) - 2 views

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    "Last month, Google discovered that it had been the subject of a sophisticated attack on its computer systems, carried out by hackers in search of private data from more than 30 internet companies. Among the targets were the accounts of Chinese human rights activists; experts claimed the hack could be traced to the Chinese government or its proxies. In response, Google announced on Tuesday that it would stop censoring results on Google.cn - the Chinese version of its search engine - or, should Beijing oppose the move, cease operating in China altogether. "
Chalana Perera

Cyber-attack Trends in US Corporations - Statistics (Biz Forum) - 1 views

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    This document gives an in-depth analysis into the impacts on US Corporations and non-government businesses/private firms and contractors. It includes many statistics and reviews as well as collected data from a variety of sources.
Chalana Perera

Economic Impacts of Cyber-Attacks (CISCO) - 0 views

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    This PDF is a report that discusses research into the economic impacts of cyber-attack on private, small-scale, large-scale, multinational, local and international corporations as well as government financial institutions.
Joe Chiverton

Credit and Debit cards stolen worth 130m - 0 views

  • Mr Gonzalez, who had once been an informant for the US Secret Service helping to track hackers, is already in custody on separate charges of hacking into the computer systems of a national restaurant chain and eight major retailers, including TJ Maxx, involving the theft of data related to 40 million credit cards.
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      This is why i put Social issues as security. As he used to work for the government trying to find hackers, therefore knowing how everything works.
anonymous

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web tool oversees Afghan election - 0 views

  • Their reports feature alongside those of full-time Afghan journalists to ensure the election and reporting of it is as "free
  • The Alive in Afghanistan project plots the SMS reports on an online map.
  • The text messages are collected via a free-platform known as FrontlineSMS, developed by UK programmer Ken Banks.
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  • Any attempt to rig or interfere with Afghanistan's election could be caught out by a system that allows anyone to record incidents via text message.
  • authenticity.
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      stakeholder 2
  • Ushahidi
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      stakeholder 1
  • National Security Council
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      Stakeholder 3
  • "We hope to enable people to report on what is going on in the country
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      Stalkholder 4, the people create the impact, and are going to use the SMS technology.
  • of Afghanistan has asked all domestic and international media agencies to "refrain form broadcasting any incidence of violence during the election process".
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      Areas of Impact>Politics and Government
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    Any attempt to rig or interfere with Afghanistan's election could be caught out by a system that allows anyone to record incidents via text message.
anonymous

Israeli website was hacked and pictures of wounded Palestinians - 0 views

  • Attackers on the official Kadima website posted images of wounded Palestinians and the aftermath of suicide bombings in Israel.
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      Internet system because it involves hacking into a website
  • According to AP news agency, the hacked web page was signed Gaza Hacker Team.
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      Secutiry and privacy, this shows that those things were violated.
  • Kadima, a centrist political party that favours a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, is the largest party in the Israeli parliament. It was unable to form a government, and is currently in opposition.
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      Shows policital issues between the two states and how they have technology helps create more effects.
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