Posts Tagged ‘Privacy and Security’

GoLiveCampus.com Gives Schools Safe Access to YouTube Content

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Available in the cloud at no cost, GoLiveCampus.com allows parents, students and teachers to safely search for relevant videos. The site dynamically pulls content from YouTube and social networking sites through a robust safe search. The search removes comments and ads and gives students access only to clean, appropriate videos.

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Nickelodeon Educates Kids on Digital Bullying

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One example, I like, features Ashley Argota of “True Jackson, VP” and Gage Golightly of “The Troop” suggests signing off the computer and don’t reply to a hostile messenger. They also suggest blocking bullies from access and make a copy of the message to show to an adult you trust.

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Facebook is Not Using Your Photos for Ads

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Today, I found out that the warning is not true, it’s just a rumor, so don’t believe it. If you read the fine print on lines 7B and 7C of Facebook’s advertising guidelines, you will read that advertisers cannot use user data (including photos) in their ads without prior consent either from Facebook or the user.

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Tumblr's Security Breach Downplayed as Time Goes By

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To error is human and Tumblr admits a human being made the mistake which led to the exposure of “sensitive server configuration information”, but not the rumored disclosure of users’ login details. The platform fixed the situation just a few hours after its detection and is now reviewing its dealings to make sure similar calamities are prevented.

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Are Citizens The New Journalists… or the New Paparazzi?

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Now that everybody’s cell phone comes equipped with a built-in camera, and now that videos and images are as easily shared as oxygen, the line distinguishing the journalistic photographer and the citizen photographer have never been more blurred.

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Security Giant Sophos Criticizes Facebook for Surge in Social Network Attacks

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Sophos Logo According to the latest security report published by Sophos, spam and phishing attacks have substantially increased, on social networking sites, over the past year. Of the 1000 respondents which were polled, around 82 percent named Facebook as the biggest threat to security. This is a 22 percent increase compared to the survey of last year.
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