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Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm?

yfloresaguilar in Emerging Info Tech - Walsh - Fall 2013
November 26, 2013

LInk: http://www.scu.edu/ethics-center/privacy/harm/index.cfm This article talks about how all human beings have three lives: public, private and secret. It describes how many apps including Facebook collect wealths of data including your gender, age, name, address, email etc... As well as...

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If you want a good life, you better be compliant

hhuey1 in Kaldor's Intro to Sociology Fall 2013
November 25, 2013

Socialization is an important part of a successful, or even just pleasant, life. For those who are able to accept and internalize the norms of the group, no matter how bad the circumstances, social life will be a tolerable. For those who struggle to accept them, the group...

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Natural Disaster in Japan

JessicaZytynsky in World Geography 412
November 23, 2013

In this article written by CNN staff on October 15th 2013, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the country of Japan. It was approximately 200 miles away from Japan, located in the Pacific Ocean. About three billion dollars of damages have been evaluated. This is not the first time that Japan has had...

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Alcohol: Are You Aware?

cynthiachu in Knowledge & Media
November 13, 2013

Being a parent comes with great responsibilities. For the parents, their first worries usually concern their child. In fact, today, alcohol has taken a lot of place in our society and, yet, it is difficult for parents to prevent their children from trying drugs. However, nowadays, there are some...

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Don’t care about your Health? Well how about your Baby’s?

PedgeRuest in Knowledge & Media
November 13, 2013

Even with many years of advertisement of the negative effects of smoking during pregnancy, mother’s ignore the warnings and continue destroying both their health and their baby’s. Here are some articles that speak of the different outcomes of nicotine and carbon monoxide. Based on the academic...

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More evidence that omega-3 could be helpful against neurodegeneration

camille.hebert in Knowledge & Media
November 13, 2013

More evidence that omega-3 could be helpful against neurodegeneration I was interested in this article because I already read about omega-3 and their effect on the emotions, but never on its effect on intellectual capacities. This research looked at the benefits of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty...

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Monsanto the Great

Zoe.Papadatos in Knowledge & Media
November 13, 2013

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have a bad reputation, and it might have something to do with Monsanto, a large corporation that specializes in chemical and agricultural biotechnologies. Some people would go as far as to say that Monsanto is the most evil corporation in the world (and that’s...

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Media Controls Our Body Image!

rmari3 in Kaldor's Intro to Sociology Fall 2013
November 11, 2013

Growing up in a technologically advanced society has been proven to have some disadvantages. There has been an increasingly large concern over the past decade, on what media has done to people’s self-confidence and their body image. Usually when this topic is studied researchers just look at women...

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Typhoon Haiyan; One of the Philippines Many Disasters

LTomassini in World Geography 412
November 11, 2013

The news article “Monster typhoon Haiyan roars across Philippines” by Matt McGrath, an environment correspondent of the BBC, was written on November 8th, 2013. This article discusses the social issue that is environmental disasters. Typhoon Haiyan which recently hit the Philippines is said to have...

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Drinking Responsibilities: At What Price?

cynthiachu in Knowledge & Media
November 6, 2013

Alcohol has been consumed since the dawn of time for many purposes. For example, in the Middle Ages, alcohol was often used to cure some diseases. Now, in a society like ours, drinking alcohol has been a common and popular daily activity with time with much more different mean, such as a way of...

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Friends For Mental Health

farrahg.js in Psychology of Mental Health Fall 2013
December 9, 2013

http://www.asmfmh.org

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More than $4.8 M raised for mental health during Bell Let's Talk Day

Rebecca_Samaan in Psychology of Mental Health Fall 2013
December 7, 2013

Canadians responded in a big way when it comes to Bell's Let's Talk Day, they sent out more than 96 million, texts, tweets and Facebook statuses. As Bell promises to donate five cents for each of these communications, the company has announced that on Wednesday it will be donating more than $4.8 million for Canadian mental health programs. Bell first launched Let's Talk initiative in September 2010 with a goal of raising $50 million over five years. Today, the company is now committed in investing $62,043,289.30 in Canadian mental health.

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Complying with your Oppressor

Rfran4 in Kaldor's Intro to Sociology Fall 2013
December 6, 2013

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The Ethics of Online Privacy Protection

Lari Michaelis in Emerging Info Tech - Walsh - Fall 2013
December 5, 2013

http://www.scu.edu/ethics-center/privacy/balance/

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Facebook, Freedom of Speech, and Teens around the World

AbeMakaveli in Emerging Info Tech - Walsh - Fall 2013
December 5, 2013

Basically , this article is saying that Teens have zero privacy when they're posting on facebook. I disagree because the privacy settings allows you to change to thatg nobody but you and your friends can see it. The author of this article must not know about how to change the privacy settings. As soon as you sign up for your account it doesn't allow anybody you don't have as a friend to see what you post. You have to do that yourself if you want to make your profile public to the world.

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Facebook, freedom of speech, and teen

sroberts in Emerging Info Tech - Walsh - Fall 2013
December 5, 2013

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/technology/internet/Face...

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Facebook, Freedom of speech, and Teens around the World

Mreynoso25 in Emerging Info Tech - Walsh - Fall 2013
December 5, 2013

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Instagram and the Ethics of Privacy

Tommy_barnes in Emerging Info Tech - Walsh - Fall 2013
December 3, 2013

In the article I read entitled "Instagram and the Ethics of privacy" they were discussing how in January of 2013 Instagram changed its privacy and terms of use guidelines. In these guidelines Instagram which was just newly required by Facebook states that by using Instagram you here by give them rights to non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the content its users post. This means that Instagram has the right to sell and advertise your photos for any use without paying the users for photo itself.

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