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Well there is always the fake ipad 3 video to watch: http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/254586/fake-ipad-3-video-likely-more-exciting-next-weeks-real-one

The main stakeholder here is the google, youtube, gmail, etc. user. The change in privacy policy settings in the system affects the stakeholder in these ways, as outlined in the article: In "suggesting search queries, or tailoring search results, based on the interests expressed in Google+, Gmail and YouTube" (mining data to provide "ever more targeted adverts"), the results become limited: "something I am interested in this week, I might not be interested in next week. I use Google's facilities as both a private individual and in my professional life. Which bit are they going to give back to me?" There is no opt-out alternative to the changes in the system. "Google has become a way of life for some people. They can't do without it even if they don't like the direction it is going in". The simplification of policies could lead to graver problems. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/27/tech/web/google-privacy-clarified/index.html

28 February 2012 Last updated at 11:58 ET Google's been letting users of services know that its privacy policies will change on 1 March Google's new privacy policy may violate the European Union's data protection laws, according to the French data regulator. The search giant plans to unify 60 different privacy policies across its products from 1 March.

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This social and ethical issue (Privacy) has been an issue recently. Privacy is a fundamental human right, we have the right to protect our information.However, privacy has become a huge issue throughout this years. The development of new information and communication technologies has grown rapidly throughout this years which is leading to a decrease in privacy. More information about an individual is being required on social neworks meaning that there will be more access to people's private information. This article is bringing awareness to people that if nothing changes quickly, that online privacy will eventually end and personal information will simply be available to any one on the internet.

The main social and ethical in this article would have to be authenticity, as it deals with the fact that people are making accounts to be real people. In my own experience I've had this happen to me once and it was easily identified for the reasons this article states, no status updates etc. Although in my case it was harmless, it can lead to issues of a greater significance. This article also highlights the worrying ease at which people can fake an accout and that there is a very significant number of these accounts. They could in some cases be used in a harmful manner. For example, sexual predators could easily make a profile pretending to be 15 years old, add a profile picture of a child and then add other children as friends. This creates a security issue as the children's life is in a potentially harmful situation, as these cases of sexual predators over the internet has been a security issue since social networks came to be. Another issue that lack of authenticity brings is that these fake accounts could be used for spam, and could also potentially be used to spread malware. This is a very common problem in Facebook as these fake accounts can share a link with their "friends" and from this it starts spreading throughout the entire social network.

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Transport is one of the areas we look at. There is not a great deal of IT in this storythough it very interesting! This sort of story has more technology in it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11508351

Also try to use the tags on this page: http://itgsopedia.wikispaces.com/Global+Tagging

reddit's sub-reddit 'technology' is constantly updated on news and new technologies by people around the world on relevant issues... so from here i can get a variety of information and updates from many different websites at once... obviously looking directly at others would also be a good idea.

Reddit technology has some great links to ITGS material! How about picking one for discussion tomorrow. See if you can think which tags would be most appropriate from the ones on this page: http://itgsopedia.wikispaces.com/Global+Tagging Then share the link to the group with the tags.

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