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Facebook Privacy Policy (Facebook) - 0 views

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    Facebook's Privacy Policy\n\n"We want to earn your trust by being transparent about how Facebook works. You should read this policy in its entirety, but should pay particular attention to these four highlights:"\nStates what is meant to be private and things that are publicly available.
Rafae Wathra

Google Plays Gotcha (Edmonton Sun) - 0 views

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    This article is about how Google Street View can invade policy and occasionally the blurring technology to promote policy sometimes fails.
Shih-Chen Chiu

BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook changes privacy policy - 0 views

  • be more transparent about what data it collects and why.
    • Farah Alam
       
      social and ethical issues- privacy the user will be able to know why facebook wants certain information and not give it to them if they think its not justified and maintain their privacy.
  • privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account
    • Farah Alam
       
      IT systems- communication systems are involved ( internet)
  • The country is the first to complete a full investigation of Facebook's privacy practices.
    • Farah Alam
       
      IMPACT- science. through their investigation they are able to find out more(and also create more jobs)
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  • There are around 950,000 developers in 180 countries who provide applications for the site.
  • social network
  • Facebook's Michael Richter said if a user chose to deactivate their account, the site would still store their information "even if it is for 10 years".
  • "Application developers have had virtually unrestricted access to Facebook users' personal information,"
    • Salman Rushdi
       
      Social and Ethical issue Impacting on privacy.-sharing information through an unclear privacy policy
Peter Rock

How the Google-Microsoft conflict could hit open source | Open Source | ZDNet.com - 1 views

  • The plain fact is that the open source ethos of trusting people and accepting diverse opinions in the code stream is directly at odds with China’s Internet policy
Chalana Perera

Facebook privacy lawsuit & child protection - 1 views

  • a Facebook account that was opened without the knowledge or consent of his parents."
    • Chalana Perera
       
      SOCIAL --> Control & Privacy/Anonymity
  • the minor's medical information may have been stored
    • Chalana Perera
       
      IT SYSTEMS --> Comm. Systems/ SOCIAL --> Privacy & Control
  • Facebook makes reasonable efforts to remove accounts of children where there is evidence they are under 13,
    • Chalana Perera
       
      SOCIAL --> Equality
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  • of an 11-year-old child because he disclosed that he had swine flu
    • Chalana Perera
       
      IMPACT --> Health / SOCIAL --> Privacy & Anonymity
  • Like all reputable social networking sites, Facebook complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by not allowing children under 13 to have accounts (COPPA does make provisions for accounts for children under 13 but imposes certain conditions including parental consent). The only way for this young man to obtain a Facebook account would be to lie about his date of birth.
    • Chalana Perera
       
      SOCIAL --> Policies
  • Once on Facebook, anything a person posts can, by default, be seen only by his friends or people in his network. If Xavier's profile was available to additional people, it was because he changed his default privacy settings.
    • Chalana Perera
       
      SOCIAL --.> Privacy & Control
Sarwat Khan

MP is named Labour 'Twitter tsar' - 0 views

  • and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      social Policies
  • She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      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
       
      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 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
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT : POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE
  • She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      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
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE: POLICY, PEOPLE
iman mustafa

Privacy for palm consumers - 0 views

  • The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess, who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.
  • It added: "Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience."
  • The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm.
YooJin Jung

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google books deal battle heats up - 0 views

  • The date for comments to the New York court overseeing the class action suit was extended from Friday to Tuesday, after the filing system went down. As time ticks away, supporters and critics have been manning both sides of the debate to win the public case.
    • Andrew Beadle
       
      SOCIAL: Policies- This article deals with policy between google and authors in sharing literary information.
  • digitise the world's books and create a vast online library
    • Andrew Beadle
       
      IMPACT: Arts, Education: By digitising out of print literature, Google will open up the accessabilty of the literature to everybody, which will have a boost on education. IT SYSTEMS: Int System This is an intellectual system that will hold online information accessible to anyone.
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    The battle between critics and supporters of Google's effort to create the world's largest virtual library intensifies.
Chalana Perera

US plans for cyber attacks (News24) - 1 views

  • 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
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    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

Protect the U.S. from cyber attacks (The Hill) - 0 views

  • technological fixes to this challenge may be easier to solve than the underlying policy questions
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    This article looks at some technological possibilities that would help prevent and prohibit extensive cyber-attacks.
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.
    • anonymous
       
      Areas of Impact > Government
    • anonymous
       
      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."
    • anonymous
       
      Social > Authenticity
  • 'Digital piracy is a serious problem and a real threat to the UK's creative industries," it said in a statement.
    • anonymous
       
      IT systems > Networking
YooJin Jung

Venezuela plans law to ban violent videogames - 0 views

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    Venezuela plans law to ban violent videogames
anonymous

South Korea halts rocket launch - 0 views

  • Officials said an automatic abort system was triggered during the countdown when weak pressure was detected in a fuel tank.
    • anonymous
       
      Social > Relaiability
  • "The automatic launch sequence automatically turned off due to a problem that was detected in the countdown," said Lee Sang-mok, the deputy minister of science and technology policy.
    • anonymous
       
      IT systems > Hardware
  • The rocket, intended to place a satellite into orbit, has been developed with the help of Russia
    • anonymous
       
      Impact > Bussiness, Science.
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