(NOTE: This document is also available on the website for the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use. It is linked here with Nancy Willard’s express permission. This is the best article on the “sexting” phenomenom I have read and probably the best one available at this time. – Mike) Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D. Center [...]
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Statistical analysis software helps anti-bullying charity put pressure on social networking sites to take action against cyber-bullying The advent of the web as a social medium has had an unhappy consequence for a large number of young people, namely cyber-bullying, defined by the UK government as “when one person or a group of people try [...]
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Class-action suit alleges schools remotely activate webcams on school-issued notebooks Computerworld – A suburban Philadelphia school district remotely activates the cameras in school-provided laptops to spy on students in their homes, a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday alleged. According to the lawsuit filed by a high school student and his parents, the Lower Merion [...]
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(NOTE: Britain has no First Amendment, so these actions are unlikely in the United States, although this country has numerous hateful websites. Should they be prosecuted here, or is it better to take an expaansive view of the First Amendment and just let them be? If the latter, when do we know they have gone [...]
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The recession has seen a big increase in bullying at work, the Guardian has learned. One in 10 employees experience workplace bullying and harassment, according to the conciliation service Acas, while a survey by the union Unison reports that more than one-third of workers said they were bullied in the past six months, double the [...]
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(NOTE: Historically, the Commonwealth nations are far ahead of the United States when it comes to identifying and dealing with bullying. That was the case in school bullying until the “wake up call” of the Columbine tragedy. While it would be a positive development to see the Brodie Panlock case serve as such a “wake [...]
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