A new legal concept of identity

"In today's digital environment the concept of identity is an issue of much greater complexity than it was in the days of the offline world. Our digital identity can exist in many forms and for many different purposes. Its existence on the Web becomes a currency that can be unscrupulously traded and abused.
 
It has never been more important to protect the concept of "who we are". We are at the beginning of a new discipline of Web Science in which such issues need to be researched across disciplines. This text offers an excellent starting point for work in this area."
 
Professor Stephen Saxby,
School of Law,

• Online search activities, like electronic transactions
 
• Date of birth
 
• Social security number
 
• Medical history
 
• Purchasing history or behavior
A digital identity is linked to one or more digital identifiers, like an email address, URL or domain name. Because identity theft is rampant on the Web, digital identity authentication and validation measures are critical to ensuring Web and network infrastructure security in the public and private sectors.

ccording to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means

• to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
• to use (another's production) without crediting the source
• to commit literary theft
• to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

But can words and ideas really be stolen?

According to U.S. law, the answer is yes. The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some way (such as a book or a computer file).

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

• turning in someone else's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)

Digital Rights and Responsibilities

 

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 Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world - electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
 
• AUP (inside and outside of school)
• Use online material ethically (citing sources)
• Report cyberbullies and threats

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 1. Rights and responsibilities is a key area of internet safety, with out it you leave your self upon to many different online attacks from fraud, to online bullying. The three main areas of rights and responsibilities are AUP, Use online material ethically, Report cyberbullies and threats.

The Social Part:

Social Skills, Social Cognition, Emotional Intelligence- All these things describe an individual’s ability to connect effectively with those around them.

The Literacy Piece:

Definitions of Literacy are constantly in flux and varies greatly depending on who’s answering. According to Wikipedia, in Scotland literacy is defined as “The ability to read and write and use numeracy, to handle information, to express ideas and opinions, to make decisions and solve problems, as family members, workers, citizens and lifelong learners.” Elsewhere I have seen it written that literacy is an individual’s ability to “deliberately mediate their world.”