March 30, 2006
CSI: The True Stories
Nowadays, advanced social technology plays a big part in our lives. People connect better and they share massive information through different kinds of media. It enhances the quality of our communication and makes it fast and easy. However, because it is so powerful, sometimes it becomes a tool for invading people’s privacy, internet vigilantism, identity-theft and cyberterrorism. Being part of the CSI team, in the next 15 minutes, we will take you through some recent cases and tell you some horrifying true stories.
Case#1: Beware of CyberTheives
"Keystrokes are saved to a file, Web forms are copied — even snapshots of a user's screen can be silently recorded."
Case#2: The Dog-"Poop"-Girl | Subway Fracas Escalates Into Test Of the Internet's Power to Shame, Article on Washington Post"As the photo circulated, the woman was dubbed the "dog dung girl," and some Internet users decided she was a public enemy."
Case#3: Twist Kim | Twist Kim 2Kim Han-sub: “Websites Using My Professional Name Destroyed My Family”
Case#4: Privacy Jam on California Highways | Original Site (Archive)"Some worry about the creation of a "surveillance society," where a private citizen's every move is captured by video cameras or bystanders' personal cameras."
Case#5: A Chinese Blogger's Tale | The Steam Bun Lawsuit | The Blood Case of the Chinese Bun"I think this [parody] has exceeded the normal bounds of issuing commentary and opinion. It's an arbitrary alteration of someone else's intellectual property."
Guo believes that under Chinese law, "Hu Ge's video falls in the category of art critique," and thus is fair use
Case#6: The Sex Scandal of Washingtonienne|The Original Washingtonienne Blog"Jessica was officially fired for misusing an office computer, but the men she wrote about kept their jobs. What they lost was their privacy. Jessica's blog identified them only by their initials. But amateur Internet sleuths who read the blog searched electronic databases looking for likely suspects, then posted names and photographs on the Internet."-April Witt
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