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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. -
1voteJhannet Sejas, a sophomore at Marymount University who made news last month after she was arrested for filming a segment of Transformers in a movie theater, has pleaded guilty to violating Virginia law by unlawfully recording a motion picture, according to Wired. Her arrest was unusual and outraged digital-rights activists since Ms. Sejas acknowledged filming 20 seconds of the movie only to get her younger brother psyched about the film.
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2voteA middle-aged man and woman, both married, start an online romance posing as teenagers. A love triangle develops and the third man is murdered. "How could a mother like that, I asked her, hijack her daughter's identity to seduce strangers? Her answers, unsatisfactory as they are, suggest a profound capacity for self-deception."
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1voteAsking if Wikipedia is becoming a hub for propaganda, Canada’s Globe and Mail points out that an online database has shown 11,000 edits to the encyclopedia made from government computers. Tracking edits made by companies and governments has become a popular pastime this week, since grad student Virgil Griffith created the database, called Wikiscanner.
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1voteSophos 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.
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1voteThe two, who are married to other people in real life, met in a Second Life club, hit it off and were married six weeks later in a Second Life ceremony — a more or less common occurrence (as are Second Life marital spats and Second Life divorce) that often occurs with the knowledge and consent of real-life spouses.
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