Are the New Facebook Security Changes so Secure After All?
Written by Denise Pellow
Monday, 04 January 2010 19:46
Will teens have the patience or interest to keep their personal information safe while online?
A Complaint filed with the FTC Managing a Facebook account has become even more complicated.
The new Facebook privacy settings which went into effect on Wednesday, December 9 were pitched as a way for members to have more control over their settings and who could access what information.
Now weeks later, the reviews are not positive and founder Jeff Zuckerman has been zapped by his own "privacy" settings. Also, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), plus 10 more organizations, including the American Library Association, has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charging that Facebook's recent privacy changes violate the federal consumer protection law.
For teens and preteens, it might as well be business as usual, but under the friends, the comments, photos, videos and fan groups, their privacy and their future could be at stake.
For our children who are most vulnerable, but believe they are invulnerable, anything they post in their digital world will have a footprint somewhere on the Internet forever.
As with all social networking communities, the potential for abuse, cyberbullying and cyberharassment exist. Children do not understand how the anonymity of the computer screen can open their world to millions of people who might not have good intentions in mind. Read More...
SextCasting is any individual, which include today's youth to the mom as your next door neighbor, who constructs content of a risqué or sexually-explicit nature by various technologies such as a digital camera, video camera, live webcam feed, recorded webcast. Defined here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sextcast
Outside parties have the ability to obtain, save, rebrand and/or distribute the content to any other website for the purposes of advertising, whether that be on blogs, via email, social media websites, or message boards.
Where is the material for SextCasting coming from?Adults at home, youth at a social gathering, in the car, privacy of bedrooms and offices, anywhere the technology is available to record, create live, send, post, distribute is all going viral.
Numerous news stories and articles published about sexting have shown the world this is one of the most popular technology trends among teens, but did you have any idea that you actually could be the one SextCasting?And, it is not just about youth and teens anymore.
What is happening?There are four terms for SextCasting:Private, Public, Unintended, and Viral. A Private SextCast is when two individuals use their respective webcams to carry out a risqué or sexual act in an image on a live webcam feed intended only for another individual. Read More...
Two twin girls disappear from Home. Today Fox News reported two teenage sisters (16 yrs. old) have been missing since Sunday. They were last seen outside their home in California getting into a car occupied by two women. These twins are special need girls (have an age mentality of approximately 12 yrs. old) and attend special education classes at their High School in Malibu, California.
