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Mr Brooke

Mind-blowing animated GIF - Boing Boing - 0 views

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  • Mr Brooke on 04 Dec 12
     
    More mind blowing animated GIFs
Jorge F1

BBC News - TripAdvisor rebuked over 'trust' claims on review site - 2 views

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  • 1 February 2012 Last updated at 09:59 GMT

    TripAdvisor rebuked over 'trust' claims on review site

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    TripAdvisor screenshot The travel site's UK homepage no longer makes the claims that provoked the complaints

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    TripAdvisor has been ordered to rewrite some of its marketing claims by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.

    The ruling follows complaints by hotels that the site had said that its holiday reviews could be "trusted".

    The ASA said it was concerned that consumers might be fooled by fraudulent posts since the entries could be made "without any form of verification".

    TripAdvisor described the ruling as a "highly technical view" of "copy that was used in a limited capacity".

    However, the watchdog said that the ruling served as a warning to all UK-focused sites with user-generated material.

    Fraud systems

    The ASA said that the US-based firm's site originally carried statements saying that it contained "reviews that you can trust" and that it had "more than 50 million honest travel reviews".

    It said that two hotels and the online reputation firm Kwikchex, which represented others, had complained that the claims were misleading since they could not be substantiated.

    The advertising body said it acknowledged that reviewers were asked to sign a declaration that their reviews were real and that they had no incentive or competitive interest with the places commented on.

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    Don't major on trustworthiness if fake reviews can appear”

  • "This should be regarded as a benchmark ruling which applies to all web sites which make claims about the reliability of their user-created content," the ASA's spokesman Matthew Wilson told the BBC.
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  • When asked about this the ASA said that its remit only extended to claims targeted at a UK audience, so it would not be pursuing changes at the .com site.
  • Jorge F1 on 01 Feb 12
     
    TripAdvisor has been ordered to rewrite some of its marketing claims by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.
  • joey <3 on 03 Feb 12
     
    the social and ethical issue here is reliability. No one can be completely confident that what they see online is true whether it is with traveling companies or something mr brooke showed us in class: http://www.familywatchdog.us/search.asp in this website for example, we can not be sure that the people registered really are sex offenders.
Jorge F1

BBC News - Trendnet security cam flaw exposes video feeds on net - 8 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-16919664

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  • "We first became aware of this on 12 January," said Zak Wood, Trendnet's director of global marketing.
  • Ines Simon on 07 Feb 12
     
    SO scary!!!!!! After reading this shocking article I'll probably start covering my security cameras while I'm at home! A main social and ethical issue is SURELY privacy. I think that many people aren't aware that security is coming to bits by the second, privacy isn't what it was some years ago. And, in my opinion, it's the technology's fault. Even though computers, internet, phones etc have become useful, society's becoming too much dependent to technology and this is an issue as technology will continue to increase even more, meaning that society's privacy will continue to decrease even more. Can't we even have privacy at home?
  • Morten Nielsen on 08 Feb 12
     
    To some extent I agree with you Ines. But technology isn't all bad. Yes, we are losing privacy at a rapid pace. But these cameras provided us with security. Well, they would have if it wasn't for the breach in Trendnet's security they would have provided people with security. Our world has become much dependent on social networking etc. We do not have as much privacy as one would like, but this is not solely the technology fault in my opinion. It is as much human nature, the drive to have 15 minutes of fame. Just my two cents anyway : )
  • The Zhan on 10 Feb 12
     
    The IT system in focus is the Trendnet home security camera. Here is how real-time, live video broadcasting works. This information originally referred to IP based cameras, which essentially work the same way. Image: http://www.ipcctv.com/images/learnMore/Single-Camera.gif The camera is installed and ran "The camera turns video & audio into binary data The camera connects to your the and transmits this data onto the network This data can then be viewed on a PC; on the local network, or over the internet." The remote viewer inputs the Internet addresses which link to the video streams and is able to see footage. source: http://www.ipcctv.com/article.php?xArt=13
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