Controlling whether or not your social media data is sold or given to third parties by the social site you're using is done by simply controlling your personal settings on your account or profile.
When will our federal agencies and lawmakers look at the internet in relation to the day-to-day reality of the folks?
The problems are law enforcement problems not regulatory problems.
All the money we spend on things like this new FTC department should be spent educating cops on all the ways there are and the tools used by people with ill-intent to harm individual lives.
The folks who have been victimized on every level from privacy to social to financial would be the first to step up and vote down the waste of resources things like this new FTC approach are and the over-reach of bills like SOPA.
For sure, the more stories like this make headlines, the more educated the folks become on what they do and do not need when it comes to internet privacy and crime.
Why is it so hard for authorities to do same? For that matter, why are there no mechanisms within law enforcement to meet the growing needs of the folks when it comes to internet crime?
Brendan Sosso:
"As people share more information about their lives with companies like Google and Facebook, many privacy advocates, government officials and consumers are worried about how those companies handle that data and how much access advertisers have to it.
Under Chairman Jon Leibowitz, the FTC has stepped into the void as the main government agency focused on online privacy protection.
In a speech earlier this year, Leibowitz referred to the FTC as the "nation’s privacy protection agency....."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
Showing posts with label Scouring the bowels of the internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scouring the bowels of the internet. Show all posts
May 13, 2012
December 8, 2011
SandBox Comments: Weasel Zippers "NY Dem Congresswoman Asked About Fast And Furious: Never Heard Of It…"
'Zip':
"You can almost see her eyes glaze over.
Via Daily Caller:
"New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez admitted she did not know what Operation Fast and Furious was at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event on Tuesday.
When The Daily Caller asked Velazquez if she thinks Fast and Furious was a scandal that rises to the level of a call for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, she shrugged at first. Then, TheDC asked if she even knew what Fast and Furious was."...."
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"You can almost see her eyes glaze over.
Via Daily Caller:
"New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez admitted she did not know what Operation Fast and Furious was at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event on Tuesday.
When The Daily Caller asked Velazquez if she thinks Fast and Furious was a scandal that rises to the level of a call for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, she shrugged at first. Then, TheDC asked if she even knew what Fast and Furious was."...."
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August 15, 2011
SandBox Comments: Summit Daily News "Collateral Damage in the War on Anonymity"
SandBox Nanny works hard at not encouraging David Sirota. Today, he does have a point.
Anonymity on the internet does not need to go away, if anything, more regulation should be put in place to enhance and protect anonymity.
Does the internet need drastic regulation? Yes, it does.
Oxymoron?
No.
The internet needs humans.
No site, no provider should be allowed to let their content and platform go without human moderation. The technology is already in place and has been all along for site holders to police their own.
Human moderators are the key, it is that simple.
The negligence of legislators, to provide within the confines of law, the ability to enforce criminal justice on internet perpetrators is where the world of cyber fails so badly.
Laws cannot keep up with technology.
In addition, our law enforcement is so far behind in understanding how criminal, psychologically impaired minds use the internet to commit crime; it is literally frightening to watch how much goes completely without notice by our cops.
Worse, the minority of officers who are so arrogant to believe that nothing is capable of escaping their sworn duties are destructive to individual and public trust. Hopelessness, when facing the juggernaut of cyber crime directed at you is capable of destroying human life. As deadly, if not more so because the internet is perpetuating constantly; as a fully loaded automatic weapon set on auto-pilot.
Human beings, serving with responsibility for the websites and platforms they build and control and held accountable to laws that our cops enforce are all that is needed to regulate the internet.
(Learn more? Click title or comment to start discussion)
Anonymity on the internet does not need to go away, if anything, more regulation should be put in place to enhance and protect anonymity.
Does the internet need drastic regulation? Yes, it does.
Oxymoron?
No.
The internet needs humans.
No site, no provider should be allowed to let their content and platform go without human moderation. The technology is already in place and has been all along for site holders to police their own.
Human moderators are the key, it is that simple.
The negligence of legislators, to provide within the confines of law, the ability to enforce criminal justice on internet perpetrators is where the world of cyber fails so badly.
Laws cannot keep up with technology.
In addition, our law enforcement is so far behind in understanding how criminal, psychologically impaired minds use the internet to commit crime; it is literally frightening to watch how much goes completely without notice by our cops.
Worse, the minority of officers who are so arrogant to believe that nothing is capable of escaping their sworn duties are destructive to individual and public trust. Hopelessness, when facing the juggernaut of cyber crime directed at you is capable of destroying human life. As deadly, if not more so because the internet is perpetuating constantly; as a fully loaded automatic weapon set on auto-pilot.
Human beings, serving with responsibility for the websites and platforms they build and control and held accountable to laws that our cops enforce are all that is needed to regulate the internet.
(Learn more? Click title or comment to start discussion)
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