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Facebook to increase user privacy
Popular social networking site to adjust privacy policy following
Canadian investigation
By John Morrison Ill, News Editor
sk social networking site
Facebook announced changes
to its privacy policy last week
following an investigation by the Office
of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Concerns over third-party data mining,
account deactivation/deletion, and non-
user privacy were addressed.
“These changes mean that the
privacy of 200 million Facebook users
in Canada and around the world will
be far better protected,” says Privacy
Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
The investigation was prompted by
complaints about the use, security, and
sale of users’ personal information.
For example, when you install
an application such as “Which M.
permanently. Instead, they had to
deactivate it, leaving their account
information available. The forthcoming
changes will allow users to delete their
account permanently.
Those who had been invited to use
Facebook using its email address book
importer or invitation systems had their
email addresses kept on file by Facebook.
Facebook’s new privacy policy will
require them to detail what they do with
the records of these email addresses.
Representatives from Facebook
cooperated with the Commissioner’s
Office for over a year during the
investigation.
“Our productive and constructive
dialogue with the Commissioner’s Office
has given us an opportunity to improve
our policies and practices in a way that
“These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million Facebook
users in Canada and around the world will be far better
protected.” —Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
Night Shyamalan twist are you?” or
“Superpoke,” you are asked to give
the application developer full access
to your profile. By doing so, you give
your permission for your information,
including age, city of residence, and
countless other things, to be sold to
marketing firms or any other interested
parties.
Under the new policy, which is
being implemented over the course
of the next 12 months, application
developers will have to advise users
what information they want and will be
required to receive consent in order to
access it.
In the past, Facebook users who
wanted to abandon the site were not
given the option to delete their account
will provide even greater transparency
and control for Facebook users,” said
Elliot Schrage, vice-president of global
communications and public policy at
Facebook.
While these changes have been
welcomed by the majority of privacy
critics, complaints about the use of users’
likeness in advertisements continue to
fall on deaf ears. The Electronic Privacy
Information Center has also raised
concerns about the how users are listed in
public searches, and tagged photos.
Facebook was founded in 1994
and has since become the most popular
social networking site on the internet,
surpassing MySpace in unique visitors in
January of 2009.
- decrypt the Enigma machine, a device
High school teacher sentenced for
sex with student
Former high school teacher sentenced to six months in jail following
inappropriate relationship with student
By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter
teacher at a well-known Catholic
Az school in Burnaby has
een sentenced to six months
in jail after pleading guilty to charges
of sexual exploitation. Last November,
the female teacher was accused of four
other counts of sexual exploitation, one
count of sexual assault, and one count
of obstruction of justice. The charges
were later reduced to one of count sexual
exploitation.
In 2007, the then-30-year-old
woman began sending inappropriate
email messages and sexually explicit
texts (“sexts”) to her then-17-year-old
male student. She further developed the
relationship through sexually charged
phone calls, which progressed to physical
relations including oral sex and coitus.
The woman, who is reportedly
married with two children, was
apprehended after she allegedly
discuSsed details of the sexual encounters
with other students. Two friends of the
boy informed the school’s principal
on September 26, 2008. The principal
contacted the RCMP and an investigation
began immediately and the former
teacher was placed on leave for the
duration.
Provincial court Judge Jocelyn
Palmer called the former teacher action’s
“abhorrent,” and said her sentence was
meant to send a very clear message. In
addition to the six-month jail term, the
woman’s sentencing included a ban on
contact with young males between the
ages of 14 and 18, and two years of
probation.
The teacher’s name and the name
of the student involved fall under a
publication ban.
News Shorts
By John Morrison Ill
Thousands sign Turing petition
Thousands of Britons have signed
a petition demanding a posthumous
government apology and knighthood for
Alan Turing, the man widely credited as
the father of modern computing science.
Turing also worked as a codebreaker
during World War II and helped to
used by Nazi Germany to send coded
messages. :
Years following the end of the war,
Turing was charged with gross indecency
after acknowledging a sexual relationship
with a 19-year-old man.
Homosexual acts were illegal at
the time and Turing was given a choice
between imprisonment and experimental
chemical castration. He chose the latter
which led to depression, and, two years
later, Turing’s suicide.
So far the petition has collected more
than 5,500 signatures.
Alan Turing
Write For Ghe Obher ress!
Come to our weekly meetings Monday night at 6 p.m. in room 1020 of the New
West campus. All Douglas College students are welcome to attend!
Or email a section editor with your stories or ideas:
News: news @theotherpress.ca
Opinions: opinions @theotherpress.ca
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Features: editor@theotherpress.ca
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Popular social networking site to adjust privacy policy following
Canadian investigation
By John Morrison Ill, News Editor
sk social networking site
Facebook announced changes
to its privacy policy last week
following an investigation by the Office
of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Concerns over third-party data mining,
account deactivation/deletion, and non-
user privacy were addressed.
“These changes mean that the
privacy of 200 million Facebook users
in Canada and around the world will
be far better protected,” says Privacy
Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
The investigation was prompted by
complaints about the use, security, and
sale of users’ personal information.
For example, when you install
an application such as “Which M.
permanently. Instead, they had to
deactivate it, leaving their account
information available. The forthcoming
changes will allow users to delete their
account permanently.
Those who had been invited to use
Facebook using its email address book
importer or invitation systems had their
email addresses kept on file by Facebook.
Facebook’s new privacy policy will
require them to detail what they do with
the records of these email addresses.
Representatives from Facebook
cooperated with the Commissioner’s
Office for over a year during the
investigation.
“Our productive and constructive
dialogue with the Commissioner’s Office
has given us an opportunity to improve
our policies and practices in a way that
“These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million Facebook
users in Canada and around the world will be far better
protected.” —Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
Night Shyamalan twist are you?” or
“Superpoke,” you are asked to give
the application developer full access
to your profile. By doing so, you give
your permission for your information,
including age, city of residence, and
countless other things, to be sold to
marketing firms or any other interested
parties.
Under the new policy, which is
being implemented over the course
of the next 12 months, application
developers will have to advise users
what information they want and will be
required to receive consent in order to
access it.
In the past, Facebook users who
wanted to abandon the site were not
given the option to delete their account
will provide even greater transparency
and control for Facebook users,” said
Elliot Schrage, vice-president of global
communications and public policy at
Facebook.
While these changes have been
welcomed by the majority of privacy
critics, complaints about the use of users’
likeness in advertisements continue to
fall on deaf ears. The Electronic Privacy
Information Center has also raised
concerns about the how users are listed in
public searches, and tagged photos.
Facebook was founded in 1994
and has since become the most popular
social networking site on the internet,
surpassing MySpace in unique visitors in
January of 2009.
- decrypt the Enigma machine, a device
High school teacher sentenced for
sex with student
Former high school teacher sentenced to six months in jail following
inappropriate relationship with student
By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter
teacher at a well-known Catholic
Az school in Burnaby has
een sentenced to six months
in jail after pleading guilty to charges
of sexual exploitation. Last November,
the female teacher was accused of four
other counts of sexual exploitation, one
count of sexual assault, and one count
of obstruction of justice. The charges
were later reduced to one of count sexual
exploitation.
In 2007, the then-30-year-old
woman began sending inappropriate
email messages and sexually explicit
texts (“sexts”) to her then-17-year-old
male student. She further developed the
relationship through sexually charged
phone calls, which progressed to physical
relations including oral sex and coitus.
The woman, who is reportedly
married with two children, was
apprehended after she allegedly
discuSsed details of the sexual encounters
with other students. Two friends of the
boy informed the school’s principal
on September 26, 2008. The principal
contacted the RCMP and an investigation
began immediately and the former
teacher was placed on leave for the
duration.
Provincial court Judge Jocelyn
Palmer called the former teacher action’s
“abhorrent,” and said her sentence was
meant to send a very clear message. In
addition to the six-month jail term, the
woman’s sentencing included a ban on
contact with young males between the
ages of 14 and 18, and two years of
probation.
The teacher’s name and the name
of the student involved fall under a
publication ban.
News Shorts
By John Morrison Ill
Thousands sign Turing petition
Thousands of Britons have signed
a petition demanding a posthumous
government apology and knighthood for
Alan Turing, the man widely credited as
the father of modern computing science.
Turing also worked as a codebreaker
during World War II and helped to
used by Nazi Germany to send coded
messages. :
Years following the end of the war,
Turing was charged with gross indecency
after acknowledging a sexual relationship
with a 19-year-old man.
Homosexual acts were illegal at
the time and Turing was given a choice
between imprisonment and experimental
chemical castration. He chose the latter
which led to depression, and, two years
later, Turing’s suicide.
So far the petition has collected more
than 5,500 signatures.
Alan Turing
Write For Ghe Obher ress!
Come to our weekly meetings Monday night at 6 p.m. in room 1020 of the New
West campus. All Douglas College students are welcome to attend!
Or email a section editor with your stories or ideas:
News: news @theotherpress.ca
Opinions: opinions @theotherpress.ca
Arts: arts@theotherpress.ca
Sports: sports @theotherpress.ca
Features: editor@theotherpress.ca
Rewards for regular contributors!
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Facebook to increase user privacy
Popular social networking site to adjust privacy policy following
Canadian investigation
By John Morrison Ill, News Editor
sk social networking site
Facebook announced changes
to its privacy policy last week
following an investigation by the Office
of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Concerns over third-party data mining,
account deactivation/deletion, and non-
user privacy were addressed.
“These changes mean that the
privacy of 200 million Facebook users
in Canada and around the world will
be far better protected,” says Privacy
Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
The investigation was prompted by
complaints about the use, security, and
sale of users’ personal information.
For example, when you install
an application such as “Which M.
permanently. Instead, they had to
deactivate it, leaving their account
information available. The forthcoming
changes will allow users to delete their
account permanently.
Those who had been invited to use
Facebook using its email address book
importer or invitation systems had their
email addresses kept on file by Facebook.
Facebook’s new privacy policy will
require them to detail what they do with
the records of these email addresses.
Representatives from Facebook
cooperated with the Commissioner’s
Office for over a year during the
investigation.
“Our productive and constructive
dialogue with the Commissioner’s Office
has given us an opportunity to improve
our policies and practices in a way that
“These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million Facebook
users in Canada and around the world will be far better
protected.” —Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
Night Shyamalan twist are you?” or
“Superpoke,” you are asked to give
the application developer full access
to your profile. By doing so, you give
your permission for your information,
including age, city of residence, and
countless other things, to be sold to
marketing firms or any other interested
parties.
Under the new policy, which is
being implemented over the course
of the next 12 months, application
developers will have to advise users
what information they want and will be
required to receive consent in order to
access it.
In the past, Facebook users who
wanted to abandon the site were not
given the option to delete their account
will provide even greater transparency
and control for Facebook users,” said
Elliot Schrage, vice-president of global
communications and public policy at
Facebook.
While these changes have been
welcomed by the majority of privacy
critics, complaints about the use of users’
likeness in advertisements continue to
fall on deaf ears. The Electronic Privacy
Information Center has also raised
concerns about the how users are listed in
public searches, and tagged photos.
Facebook was founded in 1994
and has since become the most popular
social networking site on the internet,
surpassing MySpace in unique visitors in
January of 2009.
- decrypt the Enigma machine, a device
High school teacher sentenced for
sex with student
Former high school teacher sentenced to six months in jail following
inappropriate relationship with student
By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter
teacher at a well-known Catholic
Az school in Burnaby has
een sentenced to six months
in jail after pleading guilty to charges
of sexual exploitation. Last November,
the female teacher was accused of four
other counts of sexual exploitation, one
count of sexual assault, and one count
of obstruction of justice. The charges
were later reduced to one of count sexual
exploitation.
In 2007, the then-30-year-old
woman began sending inappropriate
email messages and sexually explicit
texts (“sexts”) to her then-17-year-old
male student. She further developed the
relationship through sexually charged
phone calls, which progressed to physical
relations including oral sex and coitus.
The woman, who is reportedly
married with two children, was
apprehended after she allegedly
discuSsed details of the sexual encounters
with other students. Two friends of the
boy informed the school’s principal
on September 26, 2008. The principal
contacted the RCMP and an investigation
began immediately and the former
teacher was placed on leave for the
duration.
Provincial court Judge Jocelyn
Palmer called the former teacher action’s
“abhorrent,” and said her sentence was
meant to send a very clear message. In
addition to the six-month jail term, the
woman’s sentencing included a ban on
contact with young males between the
ages of 14 and 18, and two years of
probation.
The teacher’s name and the name
of the student involved fall under a
publication ban.
News Shorts
By John Morrison Ill
Thousands sign Turing petition
Thousands of Britons have signed
a petition demanding a posthumous
government apology and knighthood for
Alan Turing, the man widely credited as
the father of modern computing science.
Turing also worked as a codebreaker
during World War II and helped to
used by Nazi Germany to send coded
messages. :
Years following the end of the war,
Turing was charged with gross indecency
after acknowledging a sexual relationship
with a 19-year-old man.
Homosexual acts were illegal at
the time and Turing was given a choice
between imprisonment and experimental
chemical castration. He chose the latter
which led to depression, and, two years
later, Turing’s suicide.
So far the petition has collected more
than 5,500 signatures.
Alan Turing
Write For Ghe Obher ress!
Come to our weekly meetings Monday night at 6 p.m. in room 1020 of the New
West campus. All Douglas College students are welcome to attend!
Or email a section editor with your stories or ideas:
News: news @theotherpress.ca
Opinions: opinions @theotherpress.ca
Arts: arts@theotherpress.ca
Sports: sports @theotherpress.ca
Features: editor@theotherpress.ca
Rewards for regular contributors!
Popular social networking site to adjust privacy policy following
Canadian investigation
By John Morrison Ill, News Editor
sk social networking site
Facebook announced changes
to its privacy policy last week
following an investigation by the Office
of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Concerns over third-party data mining,
account deactivation/deletion, and non-
user privacy were addressed.
“These changes mean that the
privacy of 200 million Facebook users
in Canada and around the world will
be far better protected,” says Privacy
Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
The investigation was prompted by
complaints about the use, security, and
sale of users’ personal information.
For example, when you install
an application such as “Which M.
permanently. Instead, they had to
deactivate it, leaving their account
information available. The forthcoming
changes will allow users to delete their
account permanently.
Those who had been invited to use
Facebook using its email address book
importer or invitation systems had their
email addresses kept on file by Facebook.
Facebook’s new privacy policy will
require them to detail what they do with
the records of these email addresses.
Representatives from Facebook
cooperated with the Commissioner’s
Office for over a year during the
investigation.
“Our productive and constructive
dialogue with the Commissioner’s Office
has given us an opportunity to improve
our policies and practices in a way that
“These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million Facebook
users in Canada and around the world will be far better
protected.” —Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
Night Shyamalan twist are you?” or
“Superpoke,” you are asked to give
the application developer full access
to your profile. By doing so, you give
your permission for your information,
including age, city of residence, and
countless other things, to be sold to
marketing firms or any other interested
parties.
Under the new policy, which is
being implemented over the course
of the next 12 months, application
developers will have to advise users
what information they want and will be
required to receive consent in order to
access it.
In the past, Facebook users who
wanted to abandon the site were not
given the option to delete their account
will provide even greater transparency
and control for Facebook users,” said
Elliot Schrage, vice-president of global
communications and public policy at
Facebook.
While these changes have been
welcomed by the majority of privacy
critics, complaints about the use of users’
likeness in advertisements continue to
fall on deaf ears. The Electronic Privacy
Information Center has also raised
concerns about the how users are listed in
public searches, and tagged photos.
Facebook was founded in 1994
and has since become the most popular
social networking site on the internet,
surpassing MySpace in unique visitors in
January of 2009.
- decrypt the Enigma machine, a device
High school teacher sentenced for
sex with student
Former high school teacher sentenced to six months in jail following
inappropriate relationship with student
By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter
teacher at a well-known Catholic
Az school in Burnaby has
een sentenced to six months
in jail after pleading guilty to charges
of sexual exploitation. Last November,
the female teacher was accused of four
other counts of sexual exploitation, one
count of sexual assault, and one count
of obstruction of justice. The charges
were later reduced to one of count sexual
exploitation.
In 2007, the then-30-year-old
woman began sending inappropriate
email messages and sexually explicit
texts (“sexts”) to her then-17-year-old
male student. She further developed the
relationship through sexually charged
phone calls, which progressed to physical
relations including oral sex and coitus.
The woman, who is reportedly
married with two children, was
apprehended after she allegedly
discuSsed details of the sexual encounters
with other students. Two friends of the
boy informed the school’s principal
on September 26, 2008. The principal
contacted the RCMP and an investigation
began immediately and the former
teacher was placed on leave for the
duration.
Provincial court Judge Jocelyn
Palmer called the former teacher action’s
“abhorrent,” and said her sentence was
meant to send a very clear message. In
addition to the six-month jail term, the
woman’s sentencing included a ban on
contact with young males between the
ages of 14 and 18, and two years of
probation.
The teacher’s name and the name
of the student involved fall under a
publication ban.
News Shorts
By John Morrison Ill
Thousands sign Turing petition
Thousands of Britons have signed
a petition demanding a posthumous
government apology and knighthood for
Alan Turing, the man widely credited as
the father of modern computing science.
Turing also worked as a codebreaker
during World War II and helped to
used by Nazi Germany to send coded
messages. :
Years following the end of the war,
Turing was charged with gross indecency
after acknowledging a sexual relationship
with a 19-year-old man.
Homosexual acts were illegal at
the time and Turing was given a choice
between imprisonment and experimental
chemical castration. He chose the latter
which led to depression, and, two years
later, Turing’s suicide.
So far the petition has collected more
than 5,500 signatures.
Alan Turing
Write For Ghe Obher ress!
Come to our weekly meetings Monday night at 6 p.m. in room 1020 of the New
West campus. All Douglas College students are welcome to attend!
Or email a section editor with your stories or ideas:
News: news @theotherpress.ca
Opinions: opinions @theotherpress.ca
Arts: arts@theotherpress.ca
Sports: sports @theotherpress.ca
Features: editor@theotherpress.ca
Rewards for regular contributors!
Popular social networking site to adjust privacy policy following
Canadian investigation
By John Morrison Ill, News Editor
sk social networking site
Facebook announced changes
to its privacy policy last week
following an investigation by the Office
of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Concerns over third-party data mining,
account deactivation/deletion, and non-
user privacy were addressed.
“These changes mean that the
privacy of 200 million Facebook users
in Canada and around the world will
be far better protected,” says Privacy
Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
The investigation was prompted by
complaints about the use, security, and
sale of users’ personal information.
For example, when you install
an application such as “Which M.
permanently. Instead, they had to
deactivate it, leaving their account
information available. The forthcoming
changes will allow users to delete their
account permanently.
Those who had been invited to use
Facebook using its email address book
importer or invitation systems had their
email addresses kept on file by Facebook.
Facebook’s new privacy policy will
require them to detail what they do with
the records of these email addresses.
Representatives from Facebook
cooperated with the Commissioner’s
Office for over a year during the
investigation.
“Our productive and constructive
dialogue with the Commissioner’s Office
has given us an opportunity to improve
our policies and practices in a way that
“These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million Facebook
users in Canada and around the world will be far better
protected.” —Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
Night Shyamalan twist are you?” or
“Superpoke,” you are asked to give
the application developer full access
to your profile. By doing so, you give
your permission for your information,
including age, city of residence, and
countless other things, to be sold to
marketing firms or any other interested
parties.
Under the new policy, which is
being implemented over the course
of the next 12 months, application
developers will have to advise users
what information they want and will be
required to receive consent in order to
access it.
In the past, Facebook users who
wanted to abandon the site were not
given the option to delete their account
will provide even greater transparency
and control for Facebook users,” said
Elliot Schrage, vice-president of global
communications and public policy at
Facebook.
While these changes have been
welcomed by the majority of privacy
critics, complaints about the use of users’
likeness in advertisements continue to
fall on deaf ears. The Electronic Privacy
Information Center has also raised
concerns about the how users are listed in
public searches, and tagged photos.
Facebook was founded in 1994
and has since become the most popular
social networking site on the internet,
surpassing MySpace in unique visitors in
January of 2009.
- decrypt the Enigma machine, a device
High school teacher sentenced for
sex with student
Former high school teacher sentenced to six months in jail following
inappropriate relationship with student
By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter
teacher at a well-known Catholic
Az school in Burnaby has
een sentenced to six months
in jail after pleading guilty to charges
of sexual exploitation. Last November,
the female teacher was accused of four
other counts of sexual exploitation, one
count of sexual assault, and one count
of obstruction of justice. The charges
were later reduced to one of count sexual
exploitation.
In 2007, the then-30-year-old
woman began sending inappropriate
email messages and sexually explicit
texts (“sexts”) to her then-17-year-old
male student. She further developed the
relationship through sexually charged
phone calls, which progressed to physical
relations including oral sex and coitus.
The woman, who is reportedly
married with two children, was
apprehended after she allegedly
discuSsed details of the sexual encounters
with other students. Two friends of the
boy informed the school’s principal
on September 26, 2008. The principal
contacted the RCMP and an investigation
began immediately and the former
teacher was placed on leave for the
duration.
Provincial court Judge Jocelyn
Palmer called the former teacher action’s
“abhorrent,” and said her sentence was
meant to send a very clear message. In
addition to the six-month jail term, the
woman’s sentencing included a ban on
contact with young males between the
ages of 14 and 18, and two years of
probation.
The teacher’s name and the name
of the student involved fall under a
publication ban.
News Shorts
By John Morrison Ill
Thousands sign Turing petition
Thousands of Britons have signed
a petition demanding a posthumous
government apology and knighthood for
Alan Turing, the man widely credited as
the father of modern computing science.
Turing also worked as a codebreaker
during World War II and helped to
used by Nazi Germany to send coded
messages. :
Years following the end of the war,
Turing was charged with gross indecency
after acknowledging a sexual relationship
with a 19-year-old man.
Homosexual acts were illegal at
the time and Turing was given a choice
between imprisonment and experimental
chemical castration. He chose the latter
which led to depression, and, two years
later, Turing’s suicide.
So far the petition has collected more
than 5,500 signatures.
Alan Turing
Write For Ghe Obher ress!
Come to our weekly meetings Monday night at 6 p.m. in room 1020 of the New
West campus. All Douglas College students are welcome to attend!
Or email a section editor with your stories or ideas:
News: news @theotherpress.ca
Opinions: opinions @theotherpress.ca
Arts: arts@theotherpress.ca
Sports: sports @theotherpress.ca
Features: editor@theotherpress.ca
Rewards for regular contributors!
Popular social networking site to adjust privacy policy following
Canadian investigation
By John Morrison Ill, News Editor
sk social networking site
Facebook announced changes
to its privacy policy last week
following an investigation by the Office
of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Concerns over third-party data mining,
account deactivation/deletion, and non-
user privacy were addressed.
“These changes mean that the
privacy of 200 million Facebook users
in Canada and around the world will
be far better protected,” says Privacy
Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
The investigation was prompted by
complaints about the use, security, and
sale of users’ personal information.
For example, when you install
an application such as “Which M.
permanently. Instead, they had to
deactivate it, leaving their account
information available. The forthcoming
changes will allow users to delete their
account permanently.
Those who had been invited to use
Facebook using its email address book
importer or invitation systems had their
email addresses kept on file by Facebook.
Facebook’s new privacy policy will
require them to detail what they do with
the records of these email addresses.
Representatives from Facebook
cooperated with the Commissioner’s
Office for over a year during the
investigation.
“Our productive and constructive
dialogue with the Commissioner’s Office
has given us an opportunity to improve
our policies and practices in a way that
“These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million Facebook
users in Canada and around the world will be far better
protected.” —Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
Night Shyamalan twist are you?” or
“Superpoke,” you are asked to give
the application developer full access
to your profile. By doing so, you give
your permission for your information,
including age, city of residence, and
countless other things, to be sold to
marketing firms or any other interested
parties.
Under the new policy, which is
being implemented over the course
of the next 12 months, application
developers will have to advise users
what information they want and will be
required to receive consent in order to
access it.
In the past, Facebook users who
wanted to abandon the site were not
given the option to delete their account
will provide even greater transparency
and control for Facebook users,” said
Elliot Schrage, vice-president of global
communications and public policy at
Facebook.
While these changes have been
welcomed by the majority of privacy
critics, complaints about the use of users’
likeness in advertisements continue to
fall on deaf ears. The Electronic Privacy
Information Center has also raised
concerns about the how users are listed in
public searches, and tagged photos.
Facebook was founded in 1994
and has since become the most popular
social networking site on the internet,
surpassing MySpace in unique visitors in
January of 2009.
- decrypt the Enigma machine, a device
High school teacher sentenced for
sex with student
Former high school teacher sentenced to six months in jail following
inappropriate relationship with student
By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter
teacher at a well-known Catholic
Az school in Burnaby has
een sentenced to six months
in jail after pleading guilty to charges
of sexual exploitation. Last November,
the female teacher was accused of four
other counts of sexual exploitation, one
count of sexual assault, and one count
of obstruction of justice. The charges
were later reduced to one of count sexual
exploitation.
In 2007, the then-30-year-old
woman began sending inappropriate
email messages and sexually explicit
texts (“sexts”) to her then-17-year-old
male student. She further developed the
relationship through sexually charged
phone calls, which progressed to physical
relations including oral sex and coitus.
The woman, who is reportedly
married with two children, was
apprehended after she allegedly
discuSsed details of the sexual encounters
with other students. Two friends of the
boy informed the school’s principal
on September 26, 2008. The principal
contacted the RCMP and an investigation
began immediately and the former
teacher was placed on leave for the
duration.
Provincial court Judge Jocelyn
Palmer called the former teacher action’s
“abhorrent,” and said her sentence was
meant to send a very clear message. In
addition to the six-month jail term, the
woman’s sentencing included a ban on
contact with young males between the
ages of 14 and 18, and two years of
probation.
The teacher’s name and the name
of the student involved fall under a
publication ban.
News Shorts
By John Morrison Ill
Thousands sign Turing petition
Thousands of Britons have signed
a petition demanding a posthumous
government apology and knighthood for
Alan Turing, the man widely credited as
the father of modern computing science.
Turing also worked as a codebreaker
during World War II and helped to
used by Nazi Germany to send coded
messages. :
Years following the end of the war,
Turing was charged with gross indecency
after acknowledging a sexual relationship
with a 19-year-old man.
Homosexual acts were illegal at
the time and Turing was given a choice
between imprisonment and experimental
chemical castration. He chose the latter
which led to depression, and, two years
later, Turing’s suicide.
So far the petition has collected more
than 5,500 signatures.
Alan Turing
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