Introduction Social networking sites have become very popular avenues for people to communicate with family, friends and colleagues from around the corner or across the globe. While there can be benefits from the collaborative, distributed approaches promoted by responsible use of social networking sites, there are information security and privacy concerns. The volume and accessibility of personal information available on social networking sites have attracted malicious people who seek to exploit this information. The same technologies that invite user participation also make the sites easier to infect with malware that can shut down an organization’s networks, or keystroke loggers that can steal credentials. Common social networking …show more content…
Even though they use public information, Mae feels uneasy because “having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence…it was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted” (Eggers 125). Therein lays the fundamental problem with all of this data. It misses the fact that humans are not just data and numbers, but irrational beings with emotions and feelings. Second argument Cyber-bullying is not the only threat to people on the Internet. Criminals will use the information posted on-line to find potential victims. A survey in 2009 showed that as many as 38% of social media users post personal information about vacation plans. (infosecurity-magazine.com) This makes them a particular easy target for burglars. Law enforcement is seeing a rise in burglaries due to people sharing too much information about themselves. In 2010, a burglary ring in New Hampshire was arrested for more than 50 break-ins; people were targeted because they posted that they were on vacation. There has also been an increase in assault and robbery cases involving the Internet site Craigslist. Cyberstalking and location disclosure[edit] See also: Cyberstalking With the creation of Facebook and the continued popularity of MySpace, many people are giving their personal information out on the internet. Most users are not aware that they can modify the privacy settings and unless they modify them, their
Crime throughout the United States is measured through statistics. Whether they are small crimes, blue color crimes, drugs, and even murder, these statistics help the criminal justice system to develop new laws that need to be put in place and to see how current programs are working. There are two statistical reports used to measure crime in the United States; they are the (UCR) Uniform Crime Report and the (NCVS) National Crime Victimization Survey. There is a third and it is self-reported crimes by individuals. These systems being used are a great foundation for tracking trends in crimes but they are only as accurate as the people/systems that give to them. Although these are here to report criminal information to several agencies, they do not reflect all the numbers because there are a lot of crimes that go unreported.
Y. from the years of 2002 to 2007, where populations of about 149,000 inhabitants live, and their law enforcement department has approximately 550 civilians and sworn personnel, and they report about 7,950 to the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) system per year. The crimes that are reported: robbery, assaults, arson, burglary, homicide, rape, larceny, and auto theft. That amount of reports does not account the amount of errors they receive yearly for those crime categories. The research sampling from the Syracuse law enforcement Department reported “75,000 separate custodial arrests on 33,00 individuals, and it included only offenders who had multiple arrest during that time period, and it also show they were able to eliminate about 19,000 arrests and offenders from the sample” (Wheeler, 2012, p.
Social networking sites give their users an easy way to share information about themselves. However, many users are quickly finding that the information they intend to share with their friends can all too easily find its way into the hands of the authorities, strangers, the press, and the public at large. For example, job recruiters are looking to these sites as well as performing more traditional background
For years, social networking sites didn't exist, but yet people kept in touch. These days, with social networking sites becoming a part and parcel of our daily lives, there are advantages and disadvantages that come along with them. For example, you can make a friend from Timbuktu and on the flip side your account can get hacked and you can find yourself in a big mess.
Social networking sites can be compelling and addictive, carving out precious time that could be utilized for other possibly more important endeavors. Lately, we have heard in the news how some social networking sites use personal information gleaned from a person’s use of the sites. The more we communicate on-line, the less we communicate face-to-face and thereby possibly
Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users, Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. As of December last year, Facebook called its 500 million users to review their privacy settings at the launch of its new user control tools which allow the user to control their information easily depending on
committing 80% of the crime in the United States (Siegel & Welsh, 2013, p. 43).
Understanding the threat of Cybercrime brought by social networking sites, while the trend of growing popularity of social networking sites seems unstoppable, the government and the social networking companies could perform countermeasure to discontinue the trend of Cybercrime.
The negative part of the privacy issue in the social-networking area is defined by the fact that many other unknown people out of the millions of users of Facebook are going to be able to see your profile details and information. Those who can and have malevolent ideas in their minds are going to be able to sell your information for a profit (Tynan, 2010), to either businesses who take advantage of it or to use it in criminal and unlawful ways, therefore endangering the security and reputation. “With so much personal information being shared on the Web, people are becoming more aware of how their online activities can build and ruin reputations” (Gonsalves, 2010) of the users of the social networking website. “If your image is on the Web, chances are your visual anonymity has been
Social networking websites are the most prominent websites on the Internet. Millions of people use them every day to interact and connect with family, friends, and loves who maybe far away or within big businesses organizations, and schools. Social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Plus and Google Handouts seem to be the most popular websites on the Internet. Social networking privacy issues have ruled the headlines in the first half of 2011. With most social networks, users have modify their options in order to make their accounts more reserved because the default settings share everything and such as passwords, private accounts and other valuable information that I it was breached, the user might regret it. This allows a multitude of security issues because so many people may have access to your information. In this paper, I will discuss how social media websites security is easily accessible, and how an attacker might use them.
This area allows us to have better information in how we should approach crime in specific areas of our Country. But, that is not all that this area focuses on; it also “identifies the victims of crime; create surveys designed to have victim report loss and injury that may have not been reported to the police” (Siegel, 6).
To understand how a firm competes with different firms, one must have a sound idea of what resource similarity and market commonality are. The way a company can compete with other markets through the intangible and tangible factors can be broken down into four quadrants as a source of identifying the factors amongst the rivals. Market commonality is basically the amalgamation of different markets that a firm and its rivals are somehow linked to. The degree of similarity of their interaction in the markets then gives the idea of how fierce the competition really is. (Hitt et al., 2013 p 138) Resource similarity is stated as how much similarity there is between the firm's and its rival's resource in relation to how much of the resource is available and the time of resource there is present. (Hitt et al., 2013 p 138) It is also noted that the business who have same resources and abilities also go on to have similar strongpoints and weak points.
• Governance and control almost solely in the hands of three top management executives which might lead to possible strategic risk taking
The article has been formulated to analyze Google Inc. as a business. Google Inc is one of the corporations with the remarkable stories of how a simple innovation can be turned into a global corporation with the right set of skills. Google Inc. specializes in the provision of advertising, search, hardware products, operating systems, and enterprise (Google Company, 2015). The paper analyzes the management approach, formal structure, and functions to assess the areas that can be improved to achieve additional success.
shareholders than did the S&P 500 (Exhibit 1). Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had