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I think the big transgressors here is
1. Facebook
2. Craigs List
Just assuming parents will always keep a check on their children or are themselves net savvy is a dangerous over assumption. For example facebook has a no under 18 rule. Right? Well just do a search for your local primary school and you will get about 80% of the children.
First as a bit of background I will quote from a wikipedia article.
the thing not mentioned is that often a predator use of the internet is not known. Its nothing to gain private information of teenagers and not that difficult here as well. The predator will not always talk to his prey he may only identify weak spots and act on them. For example such as the Lovely Bones film and book.
What i am referring to is similar to unreported crimes: the same statistic of unreported rape cases will extend to unreported cases of rape and other crimes that is linked to the internet.
Perhaps we can argue that with technology advancing so does the methods used by the online predator/criminal.
So here is a few articles: just google internet murder or internet rape and i think you will get a lot of results. Variations may include facebook murder/rape or craigs list murder/rape. I am placing only 2 articles but there may be indeed many more
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_homicide
2.http://memeburn.com/2011/10/‘facebook-rapist’-stalks-south-africa’s-women/
Also how many times a year do you give your full information willingly to websites. For example you want to buy a book over the internet. You must now register and provide your full name and address to receive the item. Like I said a site like facebook is often just a free for all information database for anyone. For example open a different account and now look at your original account: how much information did you devulge. And we know that generally picture files specifically is shown to hundreds of users. Its on all of your facebook friends pages: so not only can they many times strangers see your photos but also someone that is friends with them. So all the elements is mostly already there for the criminal to act on: without necessary communicating with you he knows: were you life, were you work/go to school or college, your gender, how you look and if he follows your post what you do and where and with who or during what activities your alone. For example there is an app that indicate your exact location during a post.
so as can be seen many adults also fall victim to the internet predator. This being such a broad topic I am not going to place limits on its scope so discuss this in any manner or form. For example one can
:Look at limits to invasion of privacy to protect users from online predators,
:At what would be considered insufficient privacy protocols to protect users,
:At privacy only
: Whether the internet particularly is a fertile breeding ground for predators.
:Is private information sufficiently hidden by the internet
:Are parents doing enough to protect their children
:Are online adult users doing enough to safeguard themselves.
: Do you think that the internet can be made safer and how.
: Are your own information insufficiently protected in your opinion.
Alternative viewpoints:
1. A user must safeguard his own information and he is to blame if his carelessness leads to a crime against himself.
2. The internet must not be changed. If bring into too many security protocols it wouldn't be fun anymore.
3. Liability of web sites.
Lets try facebook to see how they handle children. Your under 18. You cannot enter the site. But children will just change their birthday and gain entry this way. My question therefore is whether Facebook escape liability despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary that there is a massive amount of minors using it. Its the new cool thing. Can they really claim innocent and say children will not use their site. For example IPhone if Apple said children under 18 cannot use it and they do can they put all the blame on the minor merely by restricting access. this is a very neat construct you sidestep all issues with parental rights by just requiring an age above 18. Meantime its pretty obvious that minors will use it.
1. Facebook
2. Craigs List
Just assuming parents will always keep a check on their children or are themselves net savvy is a dangerous over assumption. For example facebook has a no under 18 rule. Right? Well just do a search for your local primary school and you will get about 80% of the children.
First as a bit of background I will quote from a wikipedia article.
wikipedia said:
the thing not mentioned is that often a predator use of the internet is not known. Its nothing to gain private information of teenagers and not that difficult here as well. The predator will not always talk to his prey he may only identify weak spots and act on them. For example such as the Lovely Bones film and book.
What i am referring to is similar to unreported crimes: the same statistic of unreported rape cases will extend to unreported cases of rape and other crimes that is linked to the internet.
Perhaps we can argue that with technology advancing so does the methods used by the online predator/criminal.
So here is a few articles: just google internet murder or internet rape and i think you will get a lot of results. Variations may include facebook murder/rape or craigs list murder/rape. I am placing only 2 articles but there may be indeed many more
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_homicide
2.http://memeburn.com/2011/10/‘facebook-rapist’-stalks-south-africa’s-women/
Also how many times a year do you give your full information willingly to websites. For example you want to buy a book over the internet. You must now register and provide your full name and address to receive the item. Like I said a site like facebook is often just a free for all information database for anyone. For example open a different account and now look at your original account: how much information did you devulge. And we know that generally picture files specifically is shown to hundreds of users. Its on all of your facebook friends pages: so not only can they many times strangers see your photos but also someone that is friends with them. So all the elements is mostly already there for the criminal to act on: without necessary communicating with you he knows: were you life, were you work/go to school or college, your gender, how you look and if he follows your post what you do and where and with who or during what activities your alone. For example there is an app that indicate your exact location during a post.
so as can be seen many adults also fall victim to the internet predator. This being such a broad topic I am not going to place limits on its scope so discuss this in any manner or form. For example one can
:Look at limits to invasion of privacy to protect users from online predators,
:At what would be considered insufficient privacy protocols to protect users,
:At privacy only
: Whether the internet particularly is a fertile breeding ground for predators.
:Is private information sufficiently hidden by the internet
:Are parents doing enough to protect their children
:Are online adult users doing enough to safeguard themselves.
: Do you think that the internet can be made safer and how.
: Are your own information insufficiently protected in your opinion.
Alternative viewpoints:
1. A user must safeguard his own information and he is to blame if his carelessness leads to a crime against himself.
2. The internet must not be changed. If bring into too many security protocols it wouldn't be fun anymore.
3. Liability of web sites.
Lets try facebook to see how they handle children. Your under 18. You cannot enter the site. But children will just change their birthday and gain entry this way. My question therefore is whether Facebook escape liability despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary that there is a massive amount of minors using it. Its the new cool thing. Can they really claim innocent and say children will not use their site. For example IPhone if Apple said children under 18 cannot use it and they do can they put all the blame on the minor merely by restricting access. this is a very neat construct you sidestep all issues with parental rights by just requiring an age above 18. Meantime its pretty obvious that minors will use it.
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