http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/katiebda/privacy Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://ypulse.com/archives/2008/04/online_relation.php I know a girl who asked a boy to be her boyfriend via Facebook before they had even discussed the matter face-to-face. It was Gen Y's version of the omnipresent grade school love letter that read: "I like you. Do you like me? Check yes or no." katiebda Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:34:54 +0000 august08 dm2 privacy story participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3251&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en A growing number of professors are experimenting with Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking tools for their courses, but some students greet an invitation to join professors’ personal networks with horror, seeing faculty members as intruders in their private online spaces. Recognizing that, some professors have coined the term “creepy treehouse” to describe technological innovations by faculty members that make students’ skin crawl. katiebda Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:49:56 +0000 august08 privacy story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3086&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Apparently, college students have heard enough horror stories about potential employers scouring Facebook that many are restricting who can see their profiles — so that any snapshots of drunken revelry, or the like, are available only to friends. katiebda Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:17:45 +0000 june08 privacy facebook research http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3046&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a Connecticut high-school student could be barred from running for student government after posting a blog entry calling a school official a “douchebag” and encouraging other students to write or call the official to annoy her, the Hartford Courant reports. katiebda Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:41:38 +0000 may08 privacy story http://www.startribune.com/local/west/13549646.html Danny O'Leary, a senior who plays lacrosse, said his dean displayed four Facebook photos of O?Leary holding drinks and told him he was in "a bit of trouble." One photo shows him holding a can of Coors beer, another a shot of rum, he said. In yet another, O'Leary is pictured holding his friend?s 40-ounce container of beer. "I was told each picture was equal to a two-game suspension,'' he said. katiebda Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:49:59 +0000 january08 story privacy http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2622&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project released yesterday, 60 percent of surveyed adult Internet users aren’t worried about their “digital footprints,” like their home address or phone number, being easily traced through search engines. katiebda Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:31:25 +0000 december07 privacy research http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/229/source/rss/report_display.asp Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% five years ago. However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity. Just 3% of self-searchers report that they make a regular habit of it and 74% have checked up on their digital footprints only once or twice. katiebda Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:58:53 +0000 december07 research privacy http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2427 It’s already been well-documented that most of Facebook’s college clientele — and, indeed, many of the site’s off-campus users — don’t bother changing their privacy settings. According to a recent Sophos survey, three out of four people on Facebook’s London network have left their profiles open to all comers. katiebda Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:34:34 +0000 research october07 privacy facebook http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2417 Early this year Carnegie Mellon University released a game that asked children to serve as “cyber cadets” protecting the Web. Now the institution has followed that title up with a game that helps teach Web users to sniff out “phishing” scams. katiebda Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:42:59 +0000 september07 intervention gaming privacy http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2336 Miss New Jersey, Amy Polumbo, spoke to freshmen at Wagner College about the dangers of putting too much personal information on the Internet. Many students tend to post private information and pictures on their MySpace and Facebook pages, then express shock when somebody finds them online. katiebda Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:46:51 +0000 privacy august07 story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2306 Sophos created a profile for a fake Facebook user named Freddi Staur (that’s “ID Fraudster,” anagrammed) and sent friend requests to 200 other randomly chosen Facebookers. In the end, 87 people made Freddi a friend, and nearly all of them shared some personal information — like their e-mail addresses or dates of birth — with the stranger. katiebda Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:46:52 +0000 august07 privacy story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2297 This year, due to the opening up of FB, calls from parents complaining about their children's future roommates are coming all too frequently. In many instances, parents want their children separated from roommates whose profiles show them drinking or partying. However, according to one housing official, parents’ chief concerns are potential roommates’ race, religion, and sexual orientation. katiebda Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:25:38 +0000 august07 participation facebook audience privacy http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=165 Blogging offers then the type of solution to the private/public dichotomy that Arendt dreads. It does not release the passion of private life into the public, but deprives the private of its fascination and invests the public with a continuous repetition of identical personal experiences. katiebda Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:52:46 +0000 kdqpp august07 identity blogging commentary privacy http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/opinion/27friedman.html? Seidman’s simple thesis is that in this transparent world “how” you live your life and “how” you conduct your business matters more than ever. “The persistence of memory in electronic form makes 2nd chances harder to come by,” writes Seidman. “In the information age, life has no chapters or closets; you can leave nothing behind & you have nowhere to hide your skeletons. Your past is your present. katiebda Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:52:33 +0000 june07 commentary transparency privacy authorship participation http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/06/21/were_all_celebrities_in_post_privacy_age/?rss_id=Boston.com / News / Education The latest generation of Web sites make a virtue of openness at the expense of traditional notions of privacy.Mena Trott, who developed Movable Type, a software system for publishing blogs, says "control" is a better word than "privacy" for defining oneself in different situations on the Web. katiebda Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:54:46 +0000 june07 identity privacy commentary kdqpp