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Contents contributed and discussions participated by yunju wang

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We made mistakes on privacy, says Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg | The Australian - 0 views

  • critics and said it would simplify controls over the degree of privacy given to users of the popular social networking service.
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    Facebook apologized and promised to improve it's privacy control for its users, by making it more impler and more coherence for users to understand and further to take the control back.
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Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search - 0 views

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    Google announced to use SSL to secure user's data, keep it hard for hackers and government to spy on users' searches.
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a set of: the borders of the internet - 0 views

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    blog entry about some thoughts after reading the readers for borders.
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a set of: How scared we are to be forgotten? - 0 views

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    Blog entry about Facebook and the relation between the real social network.
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a set of: new social strutural transformation - 0 views

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    my blog entry about the Internet may re-structure the society.
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Identity theft crisis worsens for ID security CEO | Technically Incorrect - CNET News - 0 views

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    Almost everyone has an online identity in several different sites, in ordering to make our life "easier" we can now do lots of things from the internet. but how safe is this realm? Our online identity may be easily stolen than what we expected.
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The Internet's Running Out of Room - 1 views

  • One of the primary concerns when it comes to dwindling availability of IP addresses under the current protocol is the effect on the economy.
  • Addresses may even become a black market commodity,
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    We've talked about the ip address in first half of the semeseter, IPv6 summit meeting at 19, May pointed out the essential need for IPv6 and the possible issue afterwards.
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New e-store for Australian books | The Australian - 1 views

  • Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon.
  • We are all about making eBooks available no matter how customers want to read them," Mr Fenlon said.
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    It is a trend after launched of ipad in US, more than 100 local pubclishers have signed up to supply ebooks to ebook store which opereates the Borders Australia and Angus & Robertson book chains. "Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon." when things like this happen how do we draw a line between those with copyright and those without?
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Attributor Blog » Online Book Piracy Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $3 Billion - 0 views

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    A survey done to see how online piracy has affected the revevue of publisher. approximately 3 billion was the answer.
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The Millions: Confessions of a Book Pirate - 0 views

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    Before it was google book and now with the popularity of ipad and all the other ebook devices rised the ebook piracy issue. Now with almost the same format, ePub downloading and file sharing become easier.
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Not exactly putting on a happy face | The Australian - 1 views

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    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is depicited as an borderline autistic conniver in the up coming black comdedy about Facebook. Just added another drama to Facebook currently facing piracy crisis.
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Is iPad supercharging e-book piracy? | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews - 0 views

  • he Kindle still has its own platform and file format for e-books, but most of the big e-reader players, including Apple, have now adopted the ePub format.
  • that claims that "book piracy costs the industry nearly $3 billion, or over 10 percent of total revenue." Most people think that figure is very inflated, but the point is there are some big numbers involved and they only stand to get bigger as powerful e-readers like the iPad become more prevalent and tempt people to acquire content without paying for it because, well, too many of them have become used to it.
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    The popularity of ipad has raised book piracy issue. Since dowloading books is relatively fast than downloading a movie or a song, publishers are seriously facing a problem of online piracy.
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Google: Oops, we spied on your Wi-Fi | Signal Strength - CNET News - 0 views

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    Google has mistakenly collect private unsecured Wi-Fi payload data from their street view car that was meant to collect mapping data. It may be hard for google to earn back our trust after this event.
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Canadians without web access disconnected from world - 1 views

  • Word of mouth has always played an important role in finding the best dentist, knowing where to find the best place to fix your car, or knowing what's going on in your neighbourhood," said Matrix. "But now, word of mouth has become word of web."
  • If you aren't on e-mail or Facebook or one of the other sites, your five-year-old isn't getting invited to a birthday party," said Samuel. "And that's no fun for anybody.
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    After the class last night, I kept having a thoght that maybe our whole society structure is changing bcuase of the internet, the accessibility to the Internet. Money, education, perhaps are the main critaria to structure the society anymore.
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Facebook suspends instant messaging as glitch exposes private chats | The Australian - 0 views

  • consumers aren't aware
  • really exploit it by accident
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    facebook fixed the bug that allow users to view the instant message from their friend. Privacy issued rised again for Facebook.
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Surfing the net with global cops | The Australian - 1 views

  • The convention, which provides a standard framework for investigating and prosecuting crimes such as fraud, hacking, child pornography and copyright infringement across national borders, has been adopted by more than 45 countries including the US, Canada and Japan.
  • new laws will be needed in relation to facilitating international co-operation
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    Australian government is planning to accedeto the concil of Europe's Convention on Cybercrim, to further govern online content. several opinons appeared, one is saying that "age-appropriate" filtering is more effective than compelling ISPs to provide access to stored electronic communications for foreign law enforcement pruposes.
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Google ranks requests for content removal | The Australian - 0 views

  • Australia made 17 content removal requests, 14 relating to YouTube, and ranked 10th, followed by Canada.
  • Many governments are also urging Google to do more to protect user privacy.
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    google revealed information about government agencies' requests for removing searched contents from google, Australia is the ninth.
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Canberra urged to join net fightback | The Australian - 1 views

  • graduated-response" antipiracy laws, joining South Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand as the only nations to attack illegal downloading through a government-mandated system of warnings and penalties.
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    Australiam Government may take some actions to prevent online piracy, now with the iinet case is still on going, AFACT urges the government to do something to stop repeat copyright theft in cyber world.
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China to dominate culture of internet | The Australian - 0 views

  • With China, in the five usage areas: research, communications, commerce, publishing and mobility, China is at the top of each and every one.
  • ln the short term, when it comes to credibility the internet can get it all wrong."But in the long term, as more voices weigh in then over time the right direction is found, the facts are outed and the falsehoods are outed.
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    Due to it's population, I think China will still be the biggest market for the internet despite the censorsip the govornment placed.
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