Anne Bubnic's List: Digital Citizenship/Social Networking & Privacy Issues

NYU professor and social networking expert Clay Shirky talks about where to draw the line between personal and public life online. <br> You live your life online -- and anyone can read it. Should employers be able to troll your Facebook or MySpace page? Or should everything that you put online be accessible to anyone, anywhere? With increasingly popular social networking sites aggregating unprecedented volumes of personal data, the age-old issue of online privacy is once again rearing its ugly head.

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Dear Diary. Can you find the mistakes this girl has made with her new friends?

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This Hour has 22 Minutes shows us how creepy Facebook can get. Comedy sketch highlighting the public nature of "private" profiles.

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Symantec partnered with One Economy to add Internet Security content to their online information portal, The Beehive. This resource ensures that low-income families and new broadband users have the tools and resources necessary to protect their families.

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In a legal ruling likely to send a chill through the global social networking phenomenon of Facebook, a British businessman has been awarded £22,000 ($44,000, €28,000) in damages from a former school friend who created a fake profile of him on the website.

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Don't believe everything you read on Bebo.

That's the message an angry mother is sending by suing six U.K. newspapers that lifted a story off social-networking site Bebo about her daughter's supposed wild party.

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Facebook has finally started integrating its new redesign into its main site. The company is betting that what users want to do is publish more information about themselves, and see more about their friends activities. The thing is, do most Facebook users actually want to do those things?

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A recent survey by Consumer Policy Solutions has found that online safety and privacy rank highest among concerns of adults online. The consulting firm which focuses on consumer interests and the marketplace, earlier this month released results of a survey that showed 56% of respondents don't think they have enough, or any, privacy online.

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Flash cartoons based on Charlie’s Angels that teach kids about how to stay safe on the internet from the folks at Wired Safety. Topics include: Cyberbullying, Predators and Strangers, Personal Information, Piracy, Cyber Citizenship, and Protecting your computer.

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n this activity, teenagers explore online names by looking at sample e-mail addresses to determine what they can tell about the person who uses the account. After this exploration, teens choose a screen name or e-mail address for themselves as well as decide on personal details to include on a safe online profile.

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Video clip scenarios, lesson plans and handouts to teach students about privacy online. Privacy is all tied up in our sense of identity and how we interact with other people. We negotiate our privacy by revealing different things to different people in different circumstances. But when we talk online, what we say can be taken out of context. And that has consequences.

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Public Profiles Raise Questions of Propriety and Privacy. Article cites many of examples of inappropriate commentary from teachers on Facebook accounts that were not so private.

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Thirteen downloadable files from the Federal Trade Commission on protecting student privacy online.

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This amazing library collection of cybersafety and cyberethics articles from Symantec would make a great resource for teachers who want to assign students different topic areas for student presentations in a digital citizenship class.

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Flash video and activities for educators on topics related to cybersafetym predators, pornography, privacy, piracy and cyberbullying.

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<b>Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three Little CyberPigs </b> was developed by the Media Awareness Network. In this game, designed for ages 8-10, the CyberPigs play on their\nfavourite Web site and encounter marketing ploys, spam and a close encounter with a not-too-friendly wolf. The\npurpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid\nonline predators. The accompanying Teacher's Guide explains how to play the game, gives background information\non the issues of online marketing, spam and children's privacy and provides activities and handouts for classroom use.

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For the last 11 years Marje Monroe and Doug Fodeman have worked to educate schools, parents and students about the issues that affect children in an online world. Their Web site, <b><a href = http://www.childrenonline.org">ChildrenOnline.org,</a></b> offers practical articles, resources, research, and a monthly newsletter on the topic. Recently, the team, which has a long background in education, self-published <b><a href = "http://www.lulu.com/content/2682488">Safe Practices for Life Online, </a></b> intended to show middle and high school students what scams target them and how to use the Internet more safely. A <b><a href= "http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Curriculum_Integration&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=20438">teacher's edition of the book</a></b> will be available through the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in November. <br><br>

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What if there were a giant database that contained your hidden insecurities, embarrassing medical questions and the fact that you still think from time to time about your high school girlfriend? Well, such a data store does exist -- if you've ever plugged such private topics into a search engine. The fact is, search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search all record and retain in their vast data banks any term that you query, in addition to the date and time your query was processed, the IP address of your computer and a cookie-based unique ID that -- unless you delete it -- enables the search engine to continue to know if requests are coming from that particular computer, even if the connection changes.

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<b>Safety tips for parents and teens from the folks at Common Sense Media.</b> Do your teens love MySpace, Facebook or other social networking sites? Get tips on how to keep them safe. Great 4-minute video that could be shown to PTA/Parent groups or in the classroom at Back To School Night.

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Children as young as eight are being attracted to social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo, with a new study revealing more than 750,000 between the ages of 8 and 12 use one, despite minimum age restrictions of 13 or 14. Parents have admitted to spying on their children online in an attempt to safeguard them from the dangers of social networking websites.\n

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