ONE in five young people have experienced cyber bullying, the latest research shows.
The sobering statistic shows cyberbullying victims are twice as common as previously thought.
According to a Newspoll survey, 20 per cent of Australians between the ages of 18 and 24 have been bullied through e-mail, SMS, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.
Have you been a victim [...]
THE father of Brodie Panlock, the 19-year-old girl who took her own life after a year of workplace bullying, has warned her former employer that any proceeds from the sale of Cafe Vamp may not last long.
Marc Luis Da Cruz, the owner of the Hawthorn cafe who was fined along with his company $250,000 this [...]
QUEENSLAND schools are failing to properly deal with the two worst kinds of bullying and often don’t even check how their existing anti-bullying measures are working, the Government’s own expert has warned.
Current approaches to tackling bullying inside the education system are unlikely to stem the growing menace of cyber-bullying. They also are unlikely to curb [...]
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(This story seemed too strange to be true when I first read about the alleged spying. But, strange or not, it’s true. Makes you wonder “what were they thinking?” – Mike)
A suburban Philadelphia school district is deactivating a webcam, theft-tracking program secretly lodged on 2,300 student laptops following allegations the device was used by administrators [...]
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(NOTE: I included this article for a couple of reasons. First of all, it illustrates that the problems of school and workplace bullying are global. Secondly — and I find this ironic — the author calls for the adoption of legislation against bullying in order to help India join the community of capitalist wealthy nations. [...]
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(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 for Safe [...]
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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 to [...]
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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 School District [...]
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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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