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Intellectual Frankensteins

Quentin Rowan, Kaavya Viswanathan and Jason Blair all had one thing in common, blind ambition. They believed that they were some how destined for greatness and success and would do anything to ensure that they achieved it. It makes you … Continue reading

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Privacy

Privacy is never a sure thing once you submit any type if information about yourself on the web. Basically of you look at it you are obligated to put information about yourself on the web because once you have entered … Continue reading

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Plagiarism

Throughout my high school years, plagiarism was seen as something that could call for expulsion simply because one shouldn’t mimic another’s words and call them their own. And that’s the way is still is. In the Chronicle Review article, Maurice … Continue reading

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Online Privacy

The internet is a modern marvel growing at an exponential rate every day, so of course advertisers and retailers have to exploit it. The “online piracy” article brings us up to speed about how invasive companies and markets can be … Continue reading

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Online Privacy: Promised but not Followed

Internet privacy is promise in so many places but when you really look at it, is it really followed? People these days do not even notice how hard hackers work these days just to steal your information and somehow always … Continue reading

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Online privacy friend or foe?

Generally we can be summed up as trusting individuals . We are easily swayed into believing the hype.  This is the case to be made in Patrick Marshall’s piece on ” Online Privacy”. He factually layers on the dangers associated … Continue reading

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Privacy Trainwreck? Hardly.

What is being hailed as Facebook’s “privacy trainwreck” is hardly the hoopla it’s being portrayed as. Privacy seems to be an ongoing problem with Facebook and its users and more often than not, Facebook users blame the website for revealing … Continue reading

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“The Cookie Jar”

Your Privacy data can and will be at anyone’s fingertips. From advertisers to government agencies your data is out there and available. Each time we go to a website, do a search, view a picture or pull data even store … Continue reading

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Danah boyd, Facebook Privacy Trainwreck

No matter how many times any website has “Terms” to agree on, they never really go along with there own terms. Facebook has terms that says there is “privacy” involved, yet everyone knows everyone else secret. I like the way … Continue reading

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Online Privacy

I always knew that protecting your identity online was very important, in addition to protecting it from outsiders. While I was reading the articles, the Facebook article stood out to me the most. I personally am a Facebook user, and … Continue reading

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