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Text Messages: Is Your Child A Victim of Textual Harassment?(0)
Here’s a new term you’re certain to hear more about: “Textual Harassment.” It refers to incessant texting, sometimes to the point of hundreds of text messages a day. In certain cases, textual harassment could be considered cyber-bullying, and there’s a chance that sexting (exchanging sexually charged photos, or sexually charged text messages) may be occurring [...]
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Privacy: Several Sites Caught Sharing Private Data with Advertisers
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LiveJournal, Digg, and other social-networking sites have been providing advertisers with their users’ personal information without their permission. Shared data included names, user IDs and profile information. Since Facebook requires users to sign up with their real names, this posed a greater [...]
Cyber-Bullying: New Study Suggests Teens Fear Online Harassment
A 2010 study by Amanda Lenhart from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 32% of children (between the ages of 12-17 years-old) online have experienced at least one form of online harassment. Such forms cited include private content forwarded without their permission, receipt of threatening messages, rumors spread, or an embarrassing photo [...]
Social Networks: Concerned About Privacy, NYU Students Set To Build Facebook Alternative
Four New York University students have teamed up to build what they call Diaspora, a Facebook alternative that will put users in control of their own personal information. To date, they have received $100,000 for their endeavor via fundraising efforts. The foursome of programmers (including Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Ilya Zhitomirskiy and Raphael Sofaer) plan [...]
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