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"ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. "

"ATP's research concentrates on how U.S. advantages, especially the ability to create and apply information technology, can be exploited to fulfill the needs of U.S. strategies. "

"preventative measures that will assist you in being informed prior to entering into transactions over the Internet"

Good for in-depth information on networking

K12 Online Conference 2010 Julie Lindsay and Madeleine Brookes Inside ITGS is about classrooms globally coming together to form an online learning community for the IB subject Information Technology in a Global Society. Madeleine Brookes from Western Academy Beijing and Julie Lindsay from Beijing (BISS) International School, both in China, explore the impact of virtual communication and collaboration and feature the students from pioneer classrooms in a rare face-to-face meeting. It is through their eyes, as cyber-students, that we will learn more about how to use emerging technologies and build stronger more effective learning communities.

"Fuzzy Logic author:Michael Berthold, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz published: Feb. 25, 2007"

"According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and individuals are frequently selling or giving away old computer disk drives with sensitive information still on them. "

Shows details of all of the information saved in a cookie.

Uk data website sharing full databases of information.

Presentation by British Computer Society. Useful information.

A Google maps and database combination that plots the home and workplace addresses of released criminals. Enter a ZIP code and find out about your area. Includes details of crimes and offenders, including their photographs. Very good for a discussion of what type of information should be available, and the rights of the subjects of that information.

My World GIS™ is a Geographic Information System (GIS) designed specifically for use in educational settings.  My World allows learners to explore and analyze geographic data about our world. My World's intended audience is middle school through college geosciences and geography courses involving investigations of geographic data. My World is designed to meet the needs of students and teachers while keeping the constraints of educational settings in mind.  It combines the power of a full-featured GIS environment with the support and structure required by novice users in an educational environment.

An article that looks at the issues raised when too much health information is made available to people.

Synopsis: Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. Really good resource for explaining copyright in an entertaining way.

an interesting take on privacy. I wonder how many students really think before they post? It should start an interesting debate about what information should remain private.

Microsoft Online Safety. Take-away information. Also features articles by Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis and Suzie Nestico

"" This is only the first step, but it is an incredibly big one and an historic move toward the internationalization of the Internet ," said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's President and CEO. "The first countries that participate will not only be providing valuable information of the operation of IDNs in the domain name system, they are also going to help to bring the first of billions more people online - people who never use Roman characters in their daily lives." "

Facebook has dozens of toggles for privacy settings on its service, and a privacy policy longer than the US Constitution. And while many users of the service know that they're sharing information with their friends and associates, they may be surprised to find out just exactly what they're sharing, and with what groups of people. New programs that offer to tie social media integration into outside web sites offer an ever-more social experience, but they also expose even more of your online activities to social media service providers and advertisers. Is it getting too hard to keep hold of our privacy online?

"Features introduced last month include the ability for partner websites such as micro-blogging site Twitter to incorporate Facebook data, a move that would further expand the social network's presence on the internet. Critics said they were worried personal information about Facebook users was available to third-party websites." "When you meet somebody face to face, you can tell a lot from body language and instincts, and you cannot do that when you are dealing with somebody online."

"WASHINGTON-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for common global standards to guide the use of the Internet, while increasing pressure on countries like Iran, Syria and China to allow the free flow of information in their societies."