Current+events

= What's happening in the news? =

**Teachers Chided for Facebook Posts** For the last time, everybody: if you're going to post things on Facebook, please have a little common sense. []

Source: BBC News, 8 September 2010 More than a quarter of people online have lied about their name and more than one in five has done something online they regret, says a new report. []
 * One in four gives fake net names **

**Google on privacy: change your name **  Louisa Hearn  August 17, 2010 - 3:05PM

 Google's chief has put forth a novel solution for today's teenagers whose wild online antics threaten to follow them into their adult life: change your name.  []

**TVNZ Internet Debate** //Note: this link will take you to the TVNZ website//

** To hear other's opinions and to voice your own, go to the following forums: ** = **[|Internet debate: Is it appropriate for governments to step in and regulate the Internet?] ** = 11:26AM Wednesday July 28, 2010

[|Internet debate: At what age should children be responsible for their online behaviour?] 11:22AM Wednesday July 28, 2010

=[|Internet debate: What role should parents play in ensuring their children are safe online?] = 11:16AM Wednesday July 28, 2010 __[|Internet debate: Should the New Zealand Government beef up its cyber defence capabilities?] __ 11:33AM Wednesday July 28, 2010

=[|Facebook warning after Aust teen lured to death] = <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">4:00 AM Tuesday May 18, 2010 <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "SYDNEY - Police in Australia are urging teenagers to guard themselves against online predators after a teenager was lured to her death last week..." <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> To read more, go to [|http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article]

====<span style="color: #9f0909; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Keeping your online reputation intact (3:51)] ** ==== <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Added:** 10:14AM Monday May 17, 2010 <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Online reputation expert Andy Beal has written a book about maintaining your online reputation.… To view more, go to [] <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **Source:** Breakfast News

<span style="color: #9f0909; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Kids beware - the web never forgets] ** <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> 4:00 AM Sunday May 16, 2010 <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> //The 'look at me!' generation has made narcissism a virtue. But the young people living their lives on YouTube and social networking sites may regret it when their youthful indiscretions are preserved for posterity. Michael Bywater reports.// <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> To read more go to [] <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Source NZ Herald

**[|Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake]** <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Published: 17/05/2010 <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "Google said on Friday that for more than three years it had inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks..." <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Originally taken from [] <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> To read more go to @http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/business/15google.html?th&emc=th

<span style="color: #9f0909; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Facebook and privacy issues**

<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Jedd Bartlett writes, "This wired article [] provides detailed explanation of why people are concerned about facebook's recent moves such as turning “your” profile page into your identity online without your permission, and their “creepy data practices like turning your info over to third parties”. ie advertisers. Tutorial link here - [] - to tutorial slides on how to lockdown privacy settings."

<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Nigel Hulls also adds, "Further to Jedd's missive, [] shows the erosion of facebook privacy over time. To be taken as a grain of salt but gives a general indication of facebook's direction.

<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> It is now a fact of life that all of the private data you have been pumping into Facebook for years, does not belong to you, never did, and Facebook can do whatever they like with it, including sharing it with whomever they choose.

<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Some of you may have noticed the new Facebook like buttons that have popped up on websites over the last couple of weeks. These icons hook into the Facebook api, and may be sharing your private information with the site you are browsing on, in order to more effectively target the ads on the page and other nefarious reasons.

<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> If you are concerned about privacy on the net, and don't want your private information shared with 3rd party sites without your consent you can do the following.

<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> When you have finished in Facebook, log out and clear your browsers privacy settings to remove all cookies set by Facebook, <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> or <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Use a separate browser to use Facebook, and only use Facebook on this browser, nothing else. <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> or <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Ditch Facebook completely, remove your account and never go back. ;-)"

<span style="color: #9f0909; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Google admits collecting NZ Data] ** <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> Published: 7:04AM Friday May 14, 2010 <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> //Source: Reuters//Google <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "Internet search giant Google has confirmed it gathered data about personal wireless connections from homes around New Zealand." To read more, go to <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> **Source:** NZPA

** [|Online dangers for lonely children] ** <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Published: 7:49PM Wednesday May 12, 2010 <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Lonely children are looking for friends on the internet and disclosing more personal and intimate information than those with real-life buddies." To read more, go to [] <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Source:** AAP

= Social networking privacy concerns = =<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 50%;">News: Published: 5:54AM Monday May 03, 2010. = <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">On May 3rd a news article, [|Social networking privacy concerns] was released which highlighted the concern for young people and the security of their personal information online. It was also announced that Tuesday May 4th, there would be the release of an online tool for people to, "check their risk of identity theft". A privacy forum, including speakers from Google, TradeMe, Netsafe, Telecom and the Law Commission, would be held in Wellington on Wednesday (May 5th). All of this coincides with [|Privacy Awareness week] (2-8 May 2010) <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 50%;">**. Source: ** <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 60%;"> NZPA