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Rafae Wathra

Hackers target Guardian jobs site - 1 views

  • Computer hackers have targeted the Guardian newspaper's jobs website in a "sophisticated and deliberate" move, the company has said.
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      Claimed by Rafae and Tanveer
Jeff Ratliff

Cyberchondria - audio - 2 views

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    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.
Jeff Ratliff

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

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    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.
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    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.
Rafae Wathra

BBC NEWS | UK | T-Mobile staff sold personal data - 1 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.
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      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.
anonymous

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.
Rafae Wathra

PI files complaint about Google Street View - 0 views

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    Specific complaints to Google and their responses
Rafae Wathra

Privacy group targets Google Street View U.K. - 1 views

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    This article has good specific examples of how street view invades privacy.
Chalana Perera

Theatre captions in 8 languages (BBC Technology) - 2 views

  • device which enables theatre goers to read live captions of a performance in eight different languages
  • received over wifi
  • battery life of up to six hours.
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  • LED backlighting
  • screen into a theatre that wouldn't distract the rest of the audience
  • 200 handsets can run simultaneously
  • I can't vouch for the authenticity of the oriental texts
  • process cannot be automated.
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    This article, my stimulus, describes how theatres now offer audience members hand held "subtitles" or enclosed "captioning" for live performances which are offered in 8 major languages, that aren't neccesarily being spoken on stage.
Maliha Rahman

Sexting and Teens (Suite101) Portfolio 1 Criteria D - 1 views

  • Cell phones are now embedded with cameras and have the capability to send pictures to other phones and computers.
  • With sexting, sexually active kids can harass each other simply and quickly.
  • Because they can’t control who these pictures are subsequently sent to, they run the risk that they may wind up in the hands of a sexual predator or someone else who could harm them.
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  • How Adults Can Prevent Sexting
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    In this article we see a lot of ways of sexting, their reasoning's plus their consequences. We also see a few suggestions or examples of how to prevent your child from getting into and taking actions like this.
Jeff Ratliff

Tim Berners-Lee (TED) - 3 views

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    Talk about semantic web.
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