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Books:
The Privacy Advocates
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web… -
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Internet Safety
This publication outlines ways that you can protect yourself and your computer when you use the Internet and email. -
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Lost in the cloud
EARLIER this month Google announced a new operating system called Chrome. It’s meant to transform personal computers and handheld devices into single-purpose windows to the Web. This is part of a larger trend: Chrome moves… -
Korean:
Internet Safety (Korean)
이 출판물은 여러분이 인터넷과 이메일을 사용할 때 자신과 컴퓨터를 보호하는 요령에 대해 설명하고 있습니다. This publication outlines ways that you can protect yourself and your computer when you use the Internet and email. -
Vietnamese:
Internet Safety (Vietnamese)
Ấn bản này sơ lược các phương cách quý vị có thể tự bảo vệ mình và máy điện toán của quý vị khi sử dụng mạng lưới điện toán và thư e-mail.… -
Chinese:
Internet Safety (Chinese)
這本社區教育手冊提供消費者有關在使用互聯網或電郵時， 應該如何保護個人以及電腦隱私權之各項要訣。 -
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Questions & Answers about Internet Safety - Internet Safety Trainer’s Manual
This publication can help answer many questions about safety and security on the Internet and how to keep children, computer data and personal information safer and more secure. It outlines simple, but effective precautions and… -
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Seguridad por Internet
Esta publicación explica cómo protegerse y cómo proteger a su computadora cuando navega por Internet y usa correo electrónico. -
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Internet Safety - Seminar Lesson Plan and Class Activities
This packet, only available as a PDF file, provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 22-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
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Internet Safety - Training Slides
The Internet Safety Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section. -
Press:
Hooked on gadgets and paying a mental price
When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally… -
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‘Gray hat’ hackers vex companies
The world of hackers can be roughly divided into three groups. “Black hats” break into corporate computer systems for fun and profit, taking credit card numbers and e-mail addresses to sell and trade with other… -
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Gadgets you should get rid of
The common rap against technology is that it leads to an accumulation of devices. But the nature of technology is changing. Fewer products are doing more tasks — all accomplished by countless lines of massless… -
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Cloud computing to change the way we use computers
Apple founder Steve Jobs announced a free service Monday that allows consumers to store vast amounts of music, video, photos and documents on the Web, one of several emerging “cloud” computing offerings that are diminishing… -
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As e-waste piles up, disposal issues grow
New smartphones, TVs and laptops enter the marketplace at an ever-quickening pace, and many gadget-loving consumers feel compelled to have the latest and greatest with the most buzz. As a result, they find themselves with… -
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Kindle Tablet is coming, what it means to consumers
Amazon is expected to release the Kindle Tablet into the world this week at a press event to be held on Wednesday. The tech world is understandably buzzing about how this tablet from Amazon will… -
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Cloud storage sites by Amazon, others compared
If you’ve ever had your laptop stolen, watched your toddler baptize your PC with Pepsi, or had your MacBook come to a cold, dead stop, you know that the digital memories we store on our… -
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What to do with your old cellphones, cameras and computers
If this holiday season was all about upgrading for you—upgrading to a better computer, phone or camera—then it’s time to think about what to do with your old gadgets. The good news is you have… -
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California imposes energy-efficiency standards on battery chargers
California’s cellphones, tablet computers, power tools and hundreds of other portable electronic devices will be required to have energy-stingy battery chargers beginning next year. The California Energy Commission on a 3-0 vote Thursday approved first-in-the-nation… -
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Smartphones have led, desktops will follow
These days much of the action in the world of gadgets is happening in smartphones — like their sophisticated design and the apps that run on them. That has left desktop and laptop computers looking… -
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Digital records may not cut health costs
Computerized patient records are unlikely to cut health care costs and may actually encourage doctors to order expensive tests more often, a study published on Monday concludes. Industry experts have said that electronic health records… -
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How e-tailers are charging you
This video from CNN details the anti-consumer practice of dynamic pricing. -
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New U.S. research will aim at flood of digital data
The federal government is beginning a major research initiative in big data computing. The effort, which will be announced on Thursday, involves several government agencies and departments, and commitments for the programs total $200 million.… -
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User’s guide to finding storage space in the cloud
One day, you’ll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or…
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