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Rafae Wathra

Effect of Twitter on Politics (Corporate-Eye) - 2 views

www.corporate-eye.com/...itics-its-not-just-for-profits

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Rafae Wathra on 19 Apr 10
     
    About the political significance of Twitter
Sarwat Khan

MP is named Labour 'Twitter tsar' - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8205081.stm

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shared by Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09
       
      social Policies
  • She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09
       
      Social People
  • Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09
       
      Area Of Impact: Politics IT Systems : Communication systems:Internet Applications: facebook, twitter.
Sarwat Khan

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | MP is named Labour 'Twitter tsar' - 0 views

LABOUR USING TWITTER FOR NEXT ELECTION.

SOCIAL policies people comm sys IMPACT politics ITGS

shared by Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT : POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE
  • She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS : COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
  • Rather than being something completely new, campaigning using new media is simply doing what we've always done in a new setting - and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE: POLICY, PEOPLE
YooJin Jung

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

www.canada.com/...story.html

SOCIAL privacy IT SYSTEMS comm sys ITGS IMPACT politics

shared by YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "serious privacy gaps."
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      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.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09
       
      area of impact-politics&government
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      area of impact-politics&government
  • Facebook users must consent to share all their personal information, except their contact details.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
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  • "serious privacy gaps."
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
  • he social-networking website
Chalana Perera

US plans for cyber attacks (News24) - 1 views

www.news24.com/...ans-for-cyber-attacks-20100216

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shared by Chalana Perera on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • disabled US cell phone networks, slowed internet traffic to a crawl and crippled America's power grid
  • stealth cyber attack and a pair of bombings, cutting electricity to tens of millions of homes.
  • has the authority to use the full powers at his disposal
  • Chalana Perera on 16 Apr 10
     
    This article discusses the simulated cyber "shockwave" exercise that was carried out in Washington DC as to practice in preparation for predicted cyber-attacks against the US. It looks at the impacts on power systems, politics and the use of military intervention.
Chalana Perera

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

news.bbc.co.uk/...8350660.stm

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shared by Chalana Perera on 21 Nov 09 - Cached
  • asking firms to retain information on how people use social networks such as Facebook.
  • 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
  • recognition of the role of data in protecting the public
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  • 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
  • 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
  • ecret security services have legal powers in the UK to intercept communications in the interests of combating crime or threats to national security.
iman mustafa

Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site - 0 views

news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10312641-245.html

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shared by iman mustafa on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The e-mail message says: "If You dont like Obama come here, you can help to ddos his site with your installs."
  • It's not clear whether the software does turn the computer into a DoS attacking zombie, or what it does, if anything. But it would be crazy to expose your computer like that, regardless of your political leanings.
anonymous

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

news.bbc.co.uk/...8187002.stm

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shared by anonymous on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Attackers on the official Kadima website posted images of wounded Palestinians and the aftermath of suicide bombings in Israel.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      Internet system because it involves hacking into a website
  • According to AP news agency, the hacked web page was signed Gaza Hacker Team.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      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.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      Shows policital issues between the two states and how they have technology helps create more effects.
Alex David

Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8188201.stm

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shared by Alex David on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • in January this year Twitter announced that 33 accounts had been hacked, including those belonging to US President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social & Ethical issues- security , privacy& anonymity
  • Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      II Systems- Communication Systems
  • Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Areas of impact- "Politics & government" & "Arts, Entertainment & Leisure"
Maliha Rahman

Users file privacy lawsuit against Facebook - 1 views

news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10311625-93.html

SOCIAL privacy IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT education politics ITGS

shared by Maliha Rahman on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • violating California privacy and online privacy laws by disseminating private information to third parties for commercial purposes.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 27 Aug 09
       
      Social ethicial issues: Violating privacy through social networks
  • alleges the social-networking site
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      charging a site that is represented through the internet(communication system)
  • The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than 13,
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 27 Aug 09
       
      impact-Educational
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  • Facebook is no stranger to privacy controversy. In July, an investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner suggested Facebook is unconcerned with members' privacy and called on it to do more.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 27 Aug 09
       
      Impact- political issues, filling lawsuit can also affect government
Sanchit Jain

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...18dna.html

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shared by Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      there is no individuality, aynbody can be "created".SOCIAL
  • You can just engineer a crime scene,”
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      Science and the Environment, Politics and Government IMPACT
  • A potential invasion of personal privacy is another.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      Control, Policies and Standards, Integrity SOCIAL
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  • stored in law enforcement databases as a series of numbers and letters corresponding to variations at 13 spots in a person’s genome.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: basic hardware, used in the process to create DNA
  • Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
     
    they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
Sanchit Jain

Pirate Party launches UK poll bid - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8199143.stm

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shared by Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • non-commercial internet file-sharing
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Social and Ethical Impact: Intellectual property
  • peer-to-peer networking
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      IT Systems in a Social Context: Software Applications Communications Systems --downloading illegally off other people through the internet
  • future government policy,
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: -Government
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  • entertainment industry
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: Entertainment
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online politics reserved for rich - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8233908.stm

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shared by iman mustafa on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    Online civic engagement remains in the hands of richer, better educated Americans, a US study finds.
Sanchit Jain

Virginia Politics on Social Networking (examples) - 0 views

www.archive-it.org/...1570

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shared by Sanchit Jain on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Virginia political activity on social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Included are social networking Web sites for candidates
samaraad

Burma hit by massive net attack ahead of election - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693214

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shared by samaraad on 06 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • samaraad on 06 Nov 10
     
    An ongoing computer attack has knocked Burma off the internet, just days ahead of its first election in 20 years. This can have political impacts!
anonymous

Facebook (Wikipedia) - 1 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Facebook

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shared by anonymous on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 20 Apr 10
     
    Facebook wiki page. Divided into contents such as, history, financials, website (technical details), effects on politics, reception, controversy, and litigation. Website Interface evolution, features: The media often compares Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization.[76] MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook only allows plain text.[77]
anonymous

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

news.bbc.co.uk/...8311627.stm

SOCIAL privacy people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health education politics

shared by anonymous on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Government opens data to public
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 10 Nov 09
       
      Claimed by Iman and Dol.
  • anonymous on 10 Nov 09
     
    Iman's and Dol's Article
  • anonymous on 10 Nov 09
     
    Iman's and Dol's Article
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