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BBC News - Can living without the web increase the social divide? - 0 views

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  • The web is often regarded as the big "democratiser" because of the huge amount of information and access that it provides to everyone with a computer and an internet connection.
  • But what happens to those who do not have that access?
  • The job-search world has moved online and he had no idea how to navigate it.
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  • And there is a growing divide between the digital haves and have-nots
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Warning over social networking 'snooping' technology - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • New stalking software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour using data from social networking websites has been developed, it emerged today.
  • The sophisticated technology relies on websites such as Facebook and Twitter to build a detailed picture of people’s lives in a move that could raise concerns over breach of privacy and civil liberties.
  • t was claimed that the technology could be transformed into a "Google for spies" and used by governments as a means of monitoring and controlling people online.
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  • Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search."
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Why doesn't everyone 'social media stalk' a potential date? - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • A new study has found that two thirds of single people ‘social media stalk’ before agreeing to go a date.
  • There have also been countless accounts in recent years of people not being able to even get a job because of a negative online identity prejudicing the interviewer.
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  • Brilliantly the study also broke down what specific things during a good old social media stalk could break a date: an ugly mug shot, lack of humour, aggressive online behaviour, excessive flirting with others online and, my favourite one, oversharing
  • However, this light-hearted poll provides further proof of how we are increasingly judged every single day by our online personas.
  • Of those honest souls, 77 per cent claimed they had turned down a date as a result of something they found out about the said babe or hunk through social media.
  • However, while it’s important for both professional and increasingly personal reasons to be conscientious about what you post online, we do also need to remember that societal attitudes are still playing catch-up with the web.
  • All it takes is for one negative comment, or silly photo to be shared by someone else, and then a digital identity can be marred – giving a falsely negative impression of somebody.
  • The web can be unforgiving and is often out of our control.
  • he internet can do many things – but it simply cannot tell you whether you will get those unexplainable stomach butterflies when you meet your date in person.
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Are Twitter and Facebook affecting how we think? - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • How many times do you click on your email icon in a day? Or look at Facebook, or Twitter? And how many times when reading on the internet do you click on a link navigating away from the text that was the original object of your enquiry? The web, it seems, is like an electronic sweet shop, forever tempting us in different directions. But does this mental promiscuity, this tendency to flit around online, make us, well, thicker?
  • power of modern electronic media – the net, mobile telephones and video games – to capture the attention of the human mind, particularly the young mind, and then distract it has lately become a subject of concern. We are, say the worriers, losing the ability to apply ourselves properly to a single task, like reading a book in its entirety or mastering a piece of music on an instrument, with the result that our thinking is becoming shallower. Sir Tom Stoppard aired a version of this view last week when he warned that the printed page was in danger of being "swept away" on a tide of technology, with the moving image assuming ever-greater precedence in the lives of young people.
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Twitter and Facebook 'harming children's development' - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • A generation of children risks growing up with obsessive personalities, poor self-control, short attention spans and little empathy because of an addiction to social networking websites such as Twitter, a leading neuroscientist has warned
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BBC News - Be careful what you tweet - 0 views

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  • Nothing said online is really private, says Bill Thompson
  • Twitter and Facebook create a social space that encourages informality, rapid responses and the sort of conversation that typically takes place between friends in contexts that are either private or public-private, like the street, pub or cafe.
  • any services make comments visible to large numbers of people and search engines ensure that a permanent record is kept of every inane observation, spiteful aside or potentially libellous comment on a respected public figure.
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  • This is something that TV nutritionist Gillian McKeith has just discovered the hard way
  • weets have no legal immunity
  • We may eventually develop a set of social rules and legal conventions that acknowledge that an angry tweet is less likely to be considered defamatory than a published article, but we are not there yet.
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BBC News - Clarity call for mobile and internet privacy - 0 views

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  • Clarity call for mobile and internet privacy
  • The Communications Consumer Panel said that people should have control over which information is shared.
  • Data doubts
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  • The panel, which was set up to advise communications regulator Ofcom about consumers' interests, wants more control for shoppers over their data.
  • Consumers using their mobile phones can allow businesses to collect data about their location and the products and services they are interested in.
  • the Information Commissioner raised concerns over people's awareness of data privacy.
  • "It has never been more important to protect your personal information. Whether you are surfing the net, shopping online or signing up to social networking sites, it is crucial that people are thinking about how their information might be used," said Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner.
  • From employers looking up potential employees on Facebook to cyber-criminals hacking into unsecured wi-fi networks, not protecting your personal information can cause serious harm and distress."
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BBC News - Google cookies 'bypassed Safari privacy protection' - 0 views

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  • Google cookies 'bypassed Safari privacy protection'
  • The Wall Street Journal said Google and other companies had worked around privacy settings designed to restrict cookies
  • Cookies are small text files stored by browsers which can record information about online activity, and help some online services work
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  • The Safari browser is produced by Apple, and is the browser used by the iPhone.
  • y default Safari only allows cookies to be stored by the web page a user is visiting, not from third parties such as advertisers
  • esearcher Jonathan Mayer found that advertisers were still able to store cookies on the computers of internet users browsing with Safari.
  • We are aware that some third parties are circumventing Safari's privacy features and we are working to put a stop to it”
  • The Wall Street Journal reported that Google "disabled the code after being contacted by the paper".
  • Online privacy advocates were highly critical of Google's actions.
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote: "It's time for Google to acknowledge that it can do a better job of respecting the privacy of web users."
  • An Apple spokesman said in a statement: "We are aware that some third parties are circumventing Safari's privacy features and we are working to put a stop to it."
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Study: Facebook Is Your Frenemy - Megan Garber - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Facebook is terrible. But Facebook is, at the same time, wonderful. We love it, we hate it. We love to hate it, hate to love it, etc. It is our best friend. It is our worst enemy. Facebook may be friending the world, in other words, but it is also frenemy-ing us, one click at a time. This, according to new research from the Skype-like service Rebtel, which regularly surveys its users about their habits. The company recently queried U.S. users aged 18 and older, garnering responses from 1,632 mobile device owners. Among its questions: What social networking sites cause you the most stress? Which have the most negative effect on your mood? Which have the most positive?  The survey's major finding was unsurprising: Most social networks seem to have very little negative effect on those users' overall moods or stress levels. However: Of the users who did implicate social networks in stress and general mood changes, the overwhelming majority of them pointed their collective fingers at one network in particular: Facebook. Asked "what social network causes you the most stress?," 18.4 percent of Android users and 21.4 percent of iPhone users replied, "Facebook." By comparison, the next-most-named network, Twitter, was called out by only 5.9 percent of Android users and 4.4 percent of iPhone -- and the next-most-named, LinkedIn, clocked in with 4.0 percent and 3.2 percent of users, respectively.
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Facebook admits it is powerless to stop young users setting up profiles | Technology | ... - 0 views

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  • Facebook has admitted that there is almost nothing it can do to stop young users setting up profiles, with academic research suggesting that more than a third of UK 9-12 year olds now have their own page on the social network.
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BBC News - Internet privacy: Genuine concerns or paranoia? - 0 views

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  • However unwittingly, you share personal information with complete strangers every single day - via the internet.
  • Mr Chester.
  • But Google is not the only internet service busy farming out data and this raises the question of the invasion of people's rights.
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  • "Companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft are expanding their data collection techniques and they are not telling consumers and citizens why,"
  • The issue is about how you pay for online services and whether you are happy to sacrifice privacy for getting a service for free.
  • Most newspapers in the world are posting every newspaper they have ever printed, so people are finding that things they did in the past are being made public.
  • e believes it is the Europeans who are driving the policy debate, while the US strategy is to lobby the Europeans to accept the idea that there can be self-regulation, to trust the Googles and Facebooks and let this market grow.
  • The users themselves are problems as well," he says "Because they post, blog, tweet and do everything else also."
  • A lot of times most people click 'Yes' without reading what the privacy policies are” End Quote Frank Ahern
  • Google has changed its rules to allow information to be shared across all its services.
  • Internet privacy: Genuine concerns or paranoia?
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BBC News - SpongeBob app pulled over children's privacy complaint - 0 views

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  • pongeBob app became the latest game to be pulled following a complaint it had violated children's privacy rights.
  • The Washington DC-based group urged the FTC to investigate Nickelodeon and mobile game-maker PlayFirst's privacy practices.
  • ickelodeon has denied the allegation that it breached children's online privacy rules.
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  • The Center for Digital Democracy said children's email addresses had been collected without parental consent.
  • The SpongeBob Diner Dash game asks children to provide a wide range of personal information
  • The FTC last week published a report on mobile apps for children that showed parents were not being provided with information about what data an app collected, who would have access to that data, and how it would be used.
  • All of the companies in the mobile app space, especially the gatekeepers of the app stores, need to do a better job. We'll do another survey in the future and we will expect to see improvement."
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Wearable robot lets internet users 'feel' physical contact - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Internet users will be able to reach out and hug one another thanks to a new wearable robotic device that creates the sensation of physical contact
  • The iFeel-IM device, created by Japan-based scientists, simulates sensations such as heart beats, hugging, stomach butterflies and spine tingles among those wearing it.
  • "We are steeped in computer-mediated communication - SMS, e-mail, Twitter, Instant Messaging, 3-D virtual worlds - but many people don't connect emotionally," he said."I am looking to create a deep immersive experience, not just a vibration in your shirt triggered by an SMS. Emotion is what give communication life."
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  • The device is capable of distinguishing nine emotions including joy, fear, interest, guilt and anger with 90 per accuracy resulting in corresponding physical sensations such as squeezes and increased warmth in the user.While the technology would have enabled scientists to add a mechanism for sexual desire, the scientists opted against it to avoid distracting from its emotion-based focus.
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EU agencies to sanction Google over privacy violations - INTERNET - FRANCE 24 - 0 views

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  • EU data-protection agencies will take action against internet giant Google after it failed to comply with EU privacy laws,
  • In October the data protection agencies warned Google that its new confidentiality policy did not comply with EU laws and gave it four months to make changes or face legal action.
  • Google rolled out the new privacy policy in March 2012, allowing it to track users across various services to develop targeted advertising, despite sharp criticism from US and European consumer advocacy groups.
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  • It contends the move simplifies and unifies its policies across its various services such as Gmail, YouTube, Android mobile systems, social networks and Internet search.
  • But critics argue that the policy, which offers no ability to opt out aside from refraining from signing into Google services, gives the operator of the world's largest search engine unprecedented ability to monitor its users.
  • European data protection agencies had recommended to Google that it improve information provided to users, particularly on the categories of data being processed, and for what purposes and services.
  • changes are designed to improve the user experience across the various Google products, and give the firm a more integrated view of its users
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Stolen identities: Manti Te'o, Facebook, and internet privacy - Opinion - Al Jazeera En... - 0 views

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  • Indeed, most users of Facebook (or Google+, or countless other social networking sites) seem unaware of just how much they are sharing.
  • it is ultimately the responsibility of the user to understand his or her settings and know what, precisely, is being shared.
  • users must educate themselves about the privacy policies and tools available to them on Facebook or any other given site. Using available tools, users can reasonably protect their content from the public view.
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  • Still, the best rule of thumb for individuals concerned about their photographs or other content reaching the public view is to not post them on the internet at all. While this may sound extreme, remember that it only takes one "bad apple" to share your content with those to whom you have not given permission.
  • personal Facebook photos stolen to create high-profile fictional characters
  • you have privacy settings on Facebook and obviously it doesn't work because anyone can hijack your picture
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Online Shopping: More Popular (Yet Less Satisfying) Than Ever | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • consumers are increasingly content to turn to the web to get their holiday shopping done.
  • Yet as more consumers turn to online shopping before and after the holidays, more critics are voicing their dissatisfaction with e-retail. The biggest argument in favor of online shopping is that it eliminates the hassle of having to go to a store, but still, online shopping is hardly without hassles.
  • Among the problems: Purchased items were shipped to the wrong people; presents that were supposed to be gift-wrapped never were; cards alerting the recipients where the goods came from were buried deep inside packages or weren’t included at all; and, of course, clearing up these matters with customer service was a maddening, time-consuming process. Among the larger problems that Ephron, and surely many others, have with online shopping is this:
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  • On a 100-point satisfaction scale, e-retail as a whole received a score of 78, down from 80 in the 2011 holiday season
  • for the eight year in a row, Amazon received the highest overall customer satisfaction rating in ForeSee’s study.
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BBC News - Internet shopping: What makes the online consumer tick? - 0 views

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  • Data can be used at every stage of a marketing campaign from planning how it will run, to effective implementation, to measuring how successful the campaign was
  • data also shows us what really influences people online.
  • What does this mean? It means that today's savvy shoppers are taking their time when it comes to making a purchasing decision - often checking out online forums, blogs and social networks such as Facebook before they invest.
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  • In March 2012, UK retail websites received an additional 8.5 million visits through social networks and forums compared to March 2011, representing a 2.3% increase year-on-year.
  • two in every five visits to online retailers now come from a search engine.
  • Recently, we conducted some anonymous research into the way that people engage with brands and social networks - specifically Facebook. We looked at the top 100 online retailers, and benchmarked that against the number of fans those retailers had on their Facebook page. The correlation showed that the more fans a retailer had on Facebook, the more visits the website received, to the extent that for every additional fan acquired a retailer could expect to see an additional 20 visits to their company website from Facebook over a 12-month period.
  • As Facebook has evolved, it has become more than a source of traffic for retail websites; in some cases it has also become the digital shop front.
  • 4% of the UK's Facebook population have purchased a product from a brand's Facebook page
  • social media in particular offers companies a huge opportunity to expand their brand equity and profile, engage with consumers and influence their customers.
  • A recent poll conducted by Experian showed that 5% of consumers have actively sought feedback on a purchase made in store on Facebook or Twitter, while 24% of people would be positively influenced to buy a product after seeing an advert on Facebook.
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The death of Web 2.0 is nigh | Technology | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

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  • The death of Web 2.0 is nigh…
  • The death of Web 2.0 is nigh… Our lives were changed by Web 2.0 platform technology, but according to an industry watcher its days are numbered
  • Our lives were changed by Web 2.0 platform technology, but according to an industry watcher its days are numbered
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  • The prediction of Web 2.0's demise was made by Christopher Mims, a technology commentator who writes for the MIT journal Technology Review. He started by typing Web 2.0 into Google Trends search engine
  • As it happens, Web 2.0 does mean something, even though the definition gets a bit fuzzy round the edges. It first appeared in 1999
  • if the internet itself was the platform on which Web 1.0 – the first version of the Web as a simple publication system – was built, then Web 2.0 was the platform on which new, innovative  applications could be built.
  • Online mapping systems
  • Image-hosting services
  • social networking services such as MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
  • Cloud computing
  • So one way of looking at Web 2.0 is simply to say that it's "the web done properly"
  • The big question, of course, is what will Web 3.0 be like? And the answer, I suppose, is that if we knew that then we wouldn't be here.
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