In this article a 13- year girl named Megan Meier committed suicide from online bullying. She was bullied by a 16- year old boy who went by the name Josh Evans. Later to find out that it really wasn’t a16- year old boy it was one of Megan’s friend’s moms. This girl was no longer friends with Megan and her mom wanted to see if she would say anything about her daughter online. Later on nothing happened so she abruptly stopped this friendship and started sending messages saying that Megan was fat and that she was a slut. This little girl already suffers from depression and attention deficit disorder committed suicide because “Josh Evans” said that the world would be better off if she wasn’t in it anymore and that he heard from other people that she was a mean and cruel person. In my mind this was a terrible thing to do to a girl who had so much going for her. I don’t even know how a mom could do this to a child, especially someone who used to be friends with her daughter. This whole thing could have been prevented by the mom just confronting Megan or her parents and asking them to stop saying stuff about her daughter. Another way this could have been prevented was if she had her daughter and Megan sit down and have them try to work things out and ultimately try to be friends again.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569949/Girl-13-commits-suicide-after-online-bullying.html
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
When you sign up for Google they ask you for personal information to create an account. They later combine all your personal information and other information from Google services to add to your account. Now for certain services you can opt out of combining this kind of information. Also now you don’t have to sign in. You can use YouTube, Search and other Google products even if you aren’t signed into your Google account. Finally you can also request Google delete which is where if you don’t want your Google account anymore you request them to delete all your information off line from it after a reasonable time period of shutting down your account.
In this article it talks about how Google is changing their Policy Privacy for using their website. They are making everything more confidential and private so people will be safer while online. They are also collecting new information and combining it with the old to make it more updated. This article states that this new policy will be in full effect March 1st, 2012. This new policy will allow Google to show better targeted online ads to people because it can take into account what you searched and the videos you watched based on that specific subject or by previous searches. Lastly these changes include allowing Google to combine data about specific users’ activities across more Google services when they are logged into different accounts with different companies. Basically Google is paying more attention to what you are searching and to give you better ads.
Monday, January 30, 2012
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Copyright Infringement
In 2006, writer Gordon Roy Parker sued Google for copyright infringement. Parker posted a chapter of his book on Usenet bulletin board which was then indexed by Google. Gordon Roy Parker sued Google because Google archived the book and provided “excerpts from his website in search results”. This type of work was file. In the end Google ended up winning the case because judged stated that “ When and ISP automatically and temporarily stores data without human intervention so that the system can operate and transmit data to its users, the necessary element of volition is missing.”
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