...” and that you “browse entertainment news and like to take quizzes” (Angwin, 2010). Would you feel your privacy had been sbreached because someone must have spied on you without your knowledge? That is what happened to Ashley Hayes-Beaty. “Miss Hayes-Beaty is being monitored by Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company that uses sophisticated software called ‘beacon’ to capture what people are typing on a website” (Angwin, 2010). According to PCWorld Magazine (Sullivan, 2012), personal web habits are being tracked by companies such as Lotame Inc. and Facebook, advertisers, and corporations that “stalk” consumers on the web, and then sold to marketers and the government without web users being informed or aware of it. People like Ashley are suing data brokers that “sold consumer profiles to other companies without taking steps required under the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act to protect consumers” (Gross, 2012). Digital consumer monitoring is a breach of privacy that needs to be addressed. Personal data is being collected and sold without consumer consent, and the current regulatory environment is weak. As this issue becomes more prominent, a variety of solutions have been proposed, such as personal data “lockers,” Shine the Light Law, and transparency within companies. These solutions will make it more difficult for unknown parties to track unknowing consumers. Personal data is being collected online by a variety of agencies without consumer consent. In fact, the government...
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...of E-commence on international business and marketing: A literature review Name student: Tao Yi Student number: 1192930 Course name: Master thesis international track Course code: 2012-191880750-1A Assessor: Assistant Prof. Dr. E. Constantinides and Dr. Huub J.M. Ruel Hand in date: 15-09-2012 E-commerce and Web 2.0: An intensive literature review on their impacts on international business and marketing Table of content Managerial summary ............................................................................................ 2 1. Background and research objectives .............................................................. 3 2. Research problem and research questions...................................................... 4 3. Research methodology ................................................................................... 6 4. Key findings .................................................................................................. 8 4.1. 4.1.1. 4.1.2. 4.1.3. 4.2. 4.2.1. 4.2.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.4.1. 4.4.2. 4.4.3. 4.5. 4.5.1. 4.5.2. 4.5.3. 4.6. The impacts of Internet on International business and marketing .................................. 8 The impacts on international business ......................................................................... 8 The impacts on international entrepreneurship ............................................................ 9 The impacts on international companies‟ marketing .............................................
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...Table of contents Introduction 2 1.0 Pros of establishing a business presence in social media outlets 3 1.1Use company’s existing user base to exquisite new customers 3 1.2 Establish company’s global presence 3 1.3 Cost efficient 3 1.4 Helps to improve the company products and services 4 1.5 Increasing company revenue 5 2.0Cons of establishing a business presence in social media outlets 5 2.1Lack of control over your company’s marketing or advertising messages 5 2.2 Potential infringement issues of copyright or privacy 6 2.3 Difficulty to define and measure the return on investment and conversion rate 6 2.4 The amount of time use to maintain company presence in the social media. 7 2.5 The shortcoming to accurately time ads. 7 3.0 Discuss in what ways could social media possibly help jump-start a small company’s business in a competitive market? 8 4.0Evaluate how would you forecast the future of social media as an opportunity for business? 11 4.1Popularity of new social media feature like video message 11 4.2 Dominant of business to business (B2B) content marketing 12 4.3 New and improved social search 12 References 13 Introduction As stated and illustrate in the case study, an outstanding social media presence assist company in building business’s reputation, establishing trust between company and their customers, and most important to helps company gain profit most likely above average revenue in the speed of light. Businesses and companies...
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...Social Networking has been influenced around the world “The technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow. It seems that almost everyday a new article or study comes out that clues us in to how pervasive the effects of technology and social media are on our lives.In this age of globalization; The world has become no boundaries.Future more,Technology has been emerged in our world for long time ago; It has significantly effective to human being in many ways. Nowadays it can not deniable that technologies has been developed rapidly and it is become to widespread around the world especially technologies about communications that has more potential as it had never happened before. Technologies have played the crucial role in bridging boundaries and bringing people form different countries feel more closely, easier likes sitting at the same place.In addition, It has meaning to stay in touch will all known each other. Technologies, especially internet networking has an insidious and control over us many times; It has many type of technologies that become to influence many people now such as Social networking, Messenger service, web blogger. Fist of all, In the recent years the Social network has become to mostly topic that many people have an argument around the world because it has been glowed up quickly and it has stronger effect more than other technologies.It is necessary to know is the social networking actually is...
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...Liability: you did not intend the harm but is responsible for someone else who did the harm – intentional or not (ex. Employers) * INTENTIONAL TORTS: * Battery: form of trespass to person – intentional physical interference – actual physical contact * Assault: threat to harm another (immediate & possible to carry out) * Defense: consent or self-defense * False imprisonment: complete restraint (physical or no physical = handcuffs) without authority – wrongdoer must have been caught committing a crime then private citizen can arrest. No false imprisonment where authority to arrest (ex. police) * Trespass: voluntary conduct without authority (ex. On land, someone throws something on land, building structure) * Nuisance: person using their property in a way to interfere with a neighbor’s use of property (ex. Fumes, noise, water) – must be reasonably foreseeable * Defamation: derogatory false statement – must clearly refer to the person suing – must be published (heard or read by others) * Slander: verbal Libel: written (easier to prove) * Defense: justification (must be somewhat true), absolute privilege (government, parliament, trial proceedings), qualified privilege (lawyers, accountants, doctors = honest, no malice), fair comment (used by media – entitle to express opinions), “responsible communication” – good for journalists even if it was...
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...exploring a publishing company, Design Space Media Group, LLC would be an excellent and diversified approach to the many miscellaneous aspects present within an organization. Design Space Media Group began publishing 7 years ago as a Chicago based Architectural Publication, and shortly after, expanded to several countries around the world. As the company cultivated its publications into several multimedia developments, Tranzit Magazine, a lifestyles by-product was launched along with several other new ventures. There were certain challenges that came with expanding, and the organization would have to adjust in order to thrive in a rather competitive, yet questionable economy. Computer Ethics According to Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon “Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviors”. Computer ethics is set of moral principles that regulate the use of computers. With these simple moral principles, there are some common problems of computer ethics that includes intellectual property rights such as copyrighted electronic content, privacy concerns, child abuse, fraud and how computers affect society. For example, while it is easy to duplicate copyrighted electronically or digitally content, computer ethics would suggest that it is wrong to do so without the author's approval. And while it may be possible to access someone's personal information on a computer system, computer...
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...way that we communicate with one another, but also the way in which businesses must conduct their daily transactions. A person in the United States can keep in touch with a friend thousands of miles of way in Brazil or England using Facebook or Twitter. World events spread in the same manner as wildfire, uniting citizens around the world with such topics as war and human rights. We live in a society in which technology has shaped the people that we are today. Most students in middle or high school have had access to a cellular phone since their birth. Beyond the surface of technology being used as a device to interact with one another, technology is used as a device to store information. Our society has transformed from storing information on a hard drive or a flash drive to the information being stored on the Internet via the concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing is the act in which information can be stored and reviewed over the Internet rather than stored on a drive. The information on these computers is secured by a third party organization. It optimizes using fewer machines to get more work done efficiently. The idea of cloud computing was first formulated in the 1960’s, but has become a more popular term in more recent years. But with every form or new wave of technology, cloud computing has been met with praise, as well as...
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...Process that has changed my life The internet has greatly changed the lives of many people in my country and definitely the world over. Now people are able to do things which they could not do before the coming of the internet. The following are how the internet has influenced many people: • E-banking • E-learning • Communication through emails, social networks and Skype, for example • Ecommerce • Surfing the internet for learning • Research. This list is not exhaustive. However one process that changed my life very much is through searching for jobs online. There are a lot of employment agencies that are online. People can register with them for their services. I registered with a number of employment agencies in my country. I can now search for jobs and apply for jobs on the internet in a fast and efficient manner. Before the use of the internet for that purpose people would be required to use express mails or postal services to apply for jobs. People could also travel for long distances in search of employment. I can no longer do that. I have changed jobs in the past ten years through online applications. It now takes very little time to search for employment. The employment agencies, can as well keep data bases of job seekers, so much that it is easier to find right candidates for employment. In the past ten years I changed jobs four times by the use of the internet. That has not been very expensive for me. Now I am earning a lot of money because I managed to search...
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...The Student Journal for Media Literacy Education is published twice each year, and includes articles by undergraduate college students studying media literacy. Social Media Impact and Implications on Society By Nick Pernisco, SJMLE Editor In the past five years, social media websites have become ubiquitous, giving young people a new way to interact with each other and communicate with the world. This new form of communication depends on usercreated content, not mass produced messages coming from large media companies. But as with other media before it, social media's rise to prominence has experienced some very serious growing pains. Companies like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter have struggled to balance an inviting interactive environment with the ultimate pursuit of profits. Thanks to these sites, our expectations of the web, as well as society, have changed. This issue of the Student Journal for Media Literacy Education aims to explore some of the issues related to social media, and a generation fully engaged in this interactive world. The main focus is popular social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and LinkedIn, but other social networking sites are explored as well. All articles in the Journal have been written by college students in Santa Monica College’s Reading The Media course in Spring 2010, under my supervision. The students selected from a list of topic related to current issues in social media. I reviewed all of the articles...
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...Contemporary Privacy Issues Report Introduction Privacy is one of the fundamental human rights, every individual should have full control over their personal information. However due to the continuous evolution of society and technology, the importance of a person's right to privacy has been eroded. This report discusses the contemporary privacy issues on different levels and areas, with specific focus on credit reporting, protection of customer’s private information by businesses, health records, internet data and government intelligence access to information. Sections of the current Privacy Act 1988, the new Australian Privacy Principles 2014, and legislations related to the topic areas mentioned above will also be discussed in detail, and the effectiveness of these laws will be analysed. A person's credit history contains a vast amount of personally sensitive information which have a high commercial value, therefore it is extremely important to ensure businesses adhere to the privacy act to prevent the unauthorised use of these information. Any misuse of information can cause great personal and financial harm to the victim. Privacy of health information is fundamental principle in health care. Lack of privacy information might result in people not seeking the health care they need which might be very risky to their own health and the health of others. The rate of technological development is accelerating too quickly and current laws are becoming irrelevant...
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... Introduction – p3 2. E-coupons vs. Paper coupons – p4 3. Risks involved with m-coupons – p5 4. Privacy Issues – p6 5. Benefit of tracking response rates of m-coupons and forwarding by customers – p7 6. Virtual world business in the real world – p9 7. Customer relationships in a virtual world – p10 8. Virtual Customer Service Strategy – p10 9. Difference in Supporting Second Life Customers vs. Real and Web Customers – p11 10. Security and Ethical Issues Regarding Second Life – p12 11. Pros and Cons of Using an Employee to Build you a Custom System – p13 12. Pros and cons of using of purchasing a COTS – p14 13. A Smooth Transition with Older Employees and the New System – p15 14. Conclusion – p16 15. References – p17 1. Introduction: Recently I have inherited a coffee shop from my late grandfather, the Broadway Café. The café is located in downtown Charleston, WV and offers many different kinds of specialized coffees, teas, a full service bakery, and homemade sandwiches, soups, and salads. Opened in 1952, the Broadway Café has enjoyed the benefit of being a local hotspot over its many years of operation. Although my grandfather was excellent at his craft, the café is in serious need at modernization. The café is without any digital resources to track inventory, sales, customer service and marketing just to mention a few. The café has seen a decline in business in recent years and is very limited in its ability...
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...Social Networks and their impact on Availability, Confidentiality and Integrity Musa Ramadhani Davenport University IAAS 667 - Legal and Ethical Security Topics Deanne Cranford-Wesley Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Problem Statement 7 Literature Review 8 Findings 11 Military Families 12 Identifying your social media users 16 Common myths about Social Media 17 Data leakage and non-disclosure 17 Social Media Squatting 18 A new generation of hackers 18 The high cost of inaction 19 Harm to brand reputation 19 Lost productivity 19 Strains on bandwidth 20 Implementing effective Practices 20 Recommendations 21 Creating an Account 21 General Recommendations 22 Conclusion 26 References 28 Abstract Social networking sites spread information faster than any other media. Over 50% of people learn about breaking news on social media. 65% of traditional media reporters and editors use sites like Facebook and LinkedIn for story research, and 52% use Twitter. Social networking sites are the top news source for 27.8% of Americans, ranking close to newspapers (28.8%) and above radio (18.8%) and other print publications (6%). Twitter and YouTube users reported the July 20, 2012 Aurora, CO theater shooting before news crews could arrive on the scene, and the Red Cross urged witnesses to tell family members they were safe via social media outlets. In the same breath one could argue that social media enables...
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...Information Systems Professional What it is to be an information systems professional? In today’s constantly evolving world, the term “information systems professional” is always adapting to the relevant changes in technology and society. The term encompasses many different jobs such as CIO, Systems manager to Network manager, all with varying levels of responsibilities and task revolving around information. To be an information systems professional, one needs to be an informed user, they need to not only be able to use different IT applications and systems, but understand how they work and the reasons they are used, and be able to use these to improve how things are currently within an organization. It requires you to be constantly evolving and updating with the new systems and technologies emerging. Our Interviewee, Roy Al Hachem, was the Chief Information’s Officer (CIO) of a “small to medium sized company”. A CIO is someone who is regarded as “The highest ranking IS manager; is responsible for all the strategic-planning in the organization” (Gray, et al., 2015, p. 7). However Roy saw his role as an information systems professional as something more than just handling the strategic planning and use of information, taking a distanced role from his employees. He instead, took a more hands on approach with his employees, wanting to know and befriend them and not seem like an autocratic boss, a leader within his organization that employees could approach and resolve issues...
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...transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. COMMON USES OF THE INTERNET - Email, Remote access, Collaboration, File sharing, Streaming media, Voice telephony, Leisure, and Marketing. VIDEOS SHARING SITES - Video sharing refers to websites or software where a user can distribute their video clips. Some services may charge, but the bulk of them offer free services. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. YOUTUBE.COM – Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email. FACTS ABOUT YOUTUBE – Founded in February of 2005 by three former employees of eBay's PayPal unit. In July, more than 30 million people visited the site and those users watched more than 100 million vides a day. Youtube , which is home to 25 million videos and streams 15 million of them each day TO THE MEDIA, YOUTUBE IS A THREAT AND A TOOL - Media companies are of two minds...
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...Introduction We Zone5 is an e-retailer that sell apparels through the Internet. Our website does not only sell our own branded apparel but also include apparels from other brands such as H&M. Internet becomes necessity nowadays and it becomes a platform to perform transaction and communication. Therefore, any consumers around the world can visit our website and make purchases anywhere and anytime. Consumers can choose different brands of apparel in our website Our objective is not only in generate profit but also engage on corporate social responsibility in order to preserve the environment and contribute to the society and the world. We believe consumers are not the only one who are drawn to business that give back. Therefore, we will donate to the national and local charities that can benefit the charities and local communities programs, and we will also treat employees fairly and ethically. Zone5 is growing larger and fast in Southeast Asia which include Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. To expand our business, we are proud to announce our venture further into China. At Zone5,we believe the consumers will experience a fun and easy shopping. Executive summary As an e-retailers that sell products through the Internet. There will be many legal issues we will encounter and it is unavoidable. For an online website, the common legal issue we will encounter is regarding about the domain name, trademark, and copyright issues. Similar occurrence will happen to our website...
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