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"beginning of the academic year warning them of social networking issues. Source: Individual schools * Share * Yahoo! Buzz * Add to Mixx * Facebook * Twitter * More o Fark o Digg o Reddit o MySpace o StumbleUpon o Propeller o LinkedIn * Subscribe * myYahoo * iGoogle * More o Netvibes o myAOL * By Kyle Oppenhuizen, USA TODAY More college athletic departments are developing or publicizing online social networking policies for student athletes, experts say. USA TODAY researched social networking policies for 27 schools in six major conferences, including the University of Iowa, which will implement a new monitoring policy Friday. Last fall, pictures emerged on Facebook of two 19-year old Hawkeye football players holding cash and liquor bottles. Five of these schools already have specific monitoring policies in effect - Auburn, Iowa State, Ohio State, Miami and North Carolina. Others warn athletes of the potential dangers of sites such as Facebook and MySpace through student-athlete handbook policies, meetings, coach's discussions and even letters. Some schools don't have a specific policy but allow coaches to monitor at their discretion, or take action if inappropriate material online is reported. Iowa's policy puts senior leaders in charge of monitoring profiles of athletes' on their team and bring problems to administrators, who then work with the athlete, associate athletic director Fred Mims said. Administrators will not get involved, Mims said, unless issues are brought to their attention, in which case they will talk to the athlete about addressing the issue and check out the profile, public or private. Ohio State, on the other hand, requires athletes to have a public profile or add coaches and administrators as friends (which gives access to the private profile). Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D. cand

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The article is primarily about the increased usage of social networking sites for altruistic advances. Sites like Twitter and Facebook have become sources of information for people to discuss and come up with relief for the disasters occurring all over the world. Due to the increased usage of these networks, the perfect "central" location to reach out to many groups of people seems like the best option. According to the article, this is a great advancement and benefit for situations such as the disaster in Haiti. Facebook has reported that they have raised "hundreds of thousands" of dollars for the cause through "status updates, chat and micropayment systems." Twitter, specifically, is a method for people to share their motivational bits in their short Tweet updates. The article also brings about current effort of raising awareness and gaining a greater volunteer network for the upcoming Martin Luther Day holiday, for the Corporation for National Community Service. Most importantly, the end of the article brings about a great benefit of using the social networks to connect anyone in the world who wants to help, even if they are thousands of miles away. As seen, the hours spent online every week can be finally put to use for the greater good.

"With speeds of 100Mbps (megabits per second) for both download and uploads, those behind the project hope it will also breed some innovative services. "It will allow home working, telemedicine, video calling and net-based services on TV," explained Chris Smedley, chief executive of Geo, the company appointed to build the network. Such services are often touted as great uses for fibre-to-the-home networks but most are at a very embryonic stage. But there are more mundane wins for consumers, thinks Mr Smedley. Because it has super-fast upload speeds, a fibre-to-the-home network will allow users to store data such as pictures and videos remotely. "

This article describes the election of the 2008 election for President. Obama's election will go down as symbolic and inspiring victory for coming generations. A large amount of Obama's victory was due to the youth vote. With the rising of facebook and social networking Obama's ground swell support came from this generation of people on facebook and using social networks. He attempted to interact with American voters via online social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Obama teamed up with Chris Hughes, a facebook co-founder in order to podcast and mobile messaging. Obama is a natural Facebook politician. On his personal Facebook profile-which featured his "Our Moment Is Now" motto-Obama named his favorite musicians as Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Bob Dylan and listed his pastimes as basketball, writing, and "loafing w/kids" (note the hip shorthand aimed at appealing to young voters). The 72-year-old John McCain, by contrast, never managed to connect on Facebook. He gave one of his pastimes as "fishing" and listed Letters From Iwo Jima among his favorite movies. McCain even got "punked" by a Facebook prankster who posted a phony policy announcement right on McCain's online profile: "Dear supporters, today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage ... particularly marriage between two passionate females."

Cipheroptics give data security and network encryption solutions to security enterprises, financial institutions, health care, and government agencies. NAEA (North American Energy Alliance) utilized Cipheropitics to protect their data, using encryption. Dominick Birolin, the network engineer for NAEA, states that the company was "looking for a solution that could protect our critical cyber assets and meet our unique deployment requirements when we found CipherOptics." They chose this over others because CipherOptics offers security solutions for high performance networks. In addition to that, "the company's wire-speed encryption appliances are able to secure any network without changing the underlying infrastructure or application performance." Encryption works: initially by the business putting the sensitive data in plaintext. Plaintext is the normal, readable digital text. The business, using Cipheroptics, then converts the text into ciphertext. This text is made in a way that it can only be read by someone who has the key to put it back into plaintext and make it readable. The business holds the private key, which enables them to encrypt, and keep private, the data while still managing to access it when necessary.

There are many benefits to the usage of social networks towards a society, but more specifically to an individual itself. Becoming a member allows users to interact with others they do not yet know personally, but allows them to "keep track" of what others are doing. One gets to interact with businesses, giving themselves more business opportunities. It also allows people to develop skills where they give feedback to others and vise versa, creating trust over the internet.

The benefit of social networking allowed a medium of communication, in order to spread and advertise the campaign of Obama. The widespread usage of facebook, myspace, and other popular social networking websites by users was used to promote Obama during the election. He was able to gain many supporters through advertising on these social networks. Rather then excessively spending money on campaigning, it allowed a easy medium of spreading knowledge. Often times a lot of money is spent on president campaigns, and the emergence of social networks as a tool in the campaign helped increase Obama's supporters-significantly increasing his votes.

Social networks help boost fundraising and donation efforts in Haiti by 5 million in only a day.

Social Networking helps raise money for Haiti donations and relief efforts

"The aim of the Isis project is to develop an ethics-centred monitoring framework and tools for supporting law enforcement agencies in policing online social networks for the purpose of protecting children. The project will develop natural language analysis techniques to help identify paedophiles from chat logs and monitoring mechanisms that can be non-invasively attached to file sharing systems for identifying the distributors of child abuse media. "

This article Talks about Research in motion, the company of blackberry in talks with India about the services that the phones provide

This article meets the standards of ITGS. From assessing this article through strand 1 we see that their are a number social and ethical conditions to be considered in this story. Security is a major issue here, RIM's encryption is so secure that not even powerful governments can't crack. This brings up the issue of security because countries like India are worried that this secure network can be abused by the terrorists. This brings up the issue of the digital divide and equality of access. This issue is brought up because India was threatening to disrupt Blackberry access because India did not have access to some features that blackberry users from other countries have. This leads to another problem, Reliability and integrity. Since RIM's network is the most secure network that even the most powerful governments can't crack, because of this many Corporations use Blackberry, RIM fears that if they(RIM) allow governments get a little more access, they will lose their reliability of their majority steak holders. This brings up the number of steak holders, the steak holders are RIM. their customers, India, and other middle eastern countries who are threatening to cut off service due to inequality of access. The IT systems that are mentioned are cellphones, and RIM's network. The applications that apply to the article are Business and employment, and governments control and use of information.

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This article is about a rapist on facebook that makes fake facebook profiles to speak to teens. He got one young teen girl to meet him and he raped and murdered her. This is a big problem in social networking that it is so easy to find another person.

Yuval, there have been different cases of rape and murder through the use of social networking. Was the person who used facebook this way ever caught? Now, Facebook is one of the most secure social networks, with so many users online that its privacy settings are very well established; users are able to prevent others from viewing their profile. Its something old social networks have used as well, yet not to the extent that facebook is ensuring its users.

"Systems like these - known in the industry as nurturing games - are built to require regular investments of time and, for fullest enjoyment, money. The games are usually hosted by social networks like Facebook, or can connect to such networks so friends can follow one another's progress. They feature living digital property - the crops in FarmVille or the fish in Happy Aquarium - that can die without care and feeding. At FooPets, death is averted because, after a short period of neglect, the pet goes to a FooShelter. (And reclaiming it becomes an expensive proposition.)"

Check out the insidious way such game producers get youngsters to pay actual money.

" By Anthony M. Freed, Director of Business Development at Infosec Island Recently we have witnessed the emergence of international hactivist and vigilante "the Jester" through his crusade against jihadi and militant Islamic networks, and some third party networks that contain evidence of having been infiltrated by rogue elements. Jester's activities raise an important question: Where do cyber vigilantes fall on the infosec ethics spectrum?"

Airlines and EU officials said the security risk will be minimized because the system will not connect inflight phones directly to the ground - instead using an onboard base station to link up to a satellite and then to ground networks. "It has to go through a central onboard cellular network that can be switched off by the captain at any moment, so that enhances the security of the passengers," said EU spokesman Martin Selmayr. He added that for safety and security concerns the phone services will not be available during takeoff, landing or during turbulence.

""Parents are often in the dark, so who is talking to kids about what they do?" she told the BBC News website. "

ACKLING GLOBAL CENSORSHIP Last week tech companies and human rights groups launched guidelines designed to tackle censorship. Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all been heavily criticised for their business strategy in countries such as China. All have signed up to the new Global Network Initiative which aims to promote privacy and freedom of speech on the internet.

ACKLING GLOBAL CENSORSHIP Last week tech companies and human rights groups launched guidelines designed to tackle censorship. Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all been heavily criticised for their business strategy in countries such as China. All have signed up to the new Global Network Initiative which aims to promote privacy and freedom of speech on the internet.

this article talks about twitter being more then just a social network, it is turning into a hub for people to share more important information such as spread of a news event, new discovery and gathering people's opinions on a large scale.

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