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School officials to meet Monday on privacy breach

Salem News Online (MA)

by Ben Casselman

December 4, 2005

SALEM -- Salem school administrators will meet on Monday to plan their response to a privacy breach that allowed the public to view dozens of confidential student files on the Internet.

Superintendent Lawrence Callahan said he received calls from a handful of concerned parents after a report on the incident appeared in yesterday's Salem News. Parents wanted to know if their children were among the dozens of students whose psychological profiles were inadvertently posted online for several months.

Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar

The New York Times

by Katharine Q. Seelye

December 4, 2005

The question of Wikipedia, as of so much of what you find online, is: Can you trust it?

ACCORDING to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr. is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr. Seigenthaler's biography, true? The question arises because Mr. Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby."

French Doctors Defend Ethics of First Face Transplant

The Washington Post Foreign Service

by John Ward Anderson

December 4, 2005

LYON, France -- French physicians on Friday defended their decision to perform the world's first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman, saying horrific wounds from a dog bite in May probably could not have been repaired...

News of the operation brought criticism from some medical ethicists, who questioned whether a high-risk transplant should be performed for cosmetic reasons on patients who do not have life-threatening injuries. There also are potential psychological ramifications for patients in swapping one of the most personal and individual features of a body, which for many people is a reflection of persona.

Significant Changes in Air Passenger Screening Lie Ahead

The New York Times (NY)

by Eric Lipton

December 1, 2005

The Transportation Security Administration is making some of the most significant changes in the screening of airline passengers since procedures were revamped after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The changes include a new type of random search, a revision of the pat-down process and the end of a ban on small scissors and certain other sharp tools in carry-on luggage. The goal of the changes, which will be announced Friday and go into effect on Dec. 20, is to try to disrupt the now-familiar routine associated with security screening, a routine that federal officials fear would-be terrorists may have studied to figure out ways to circumvent it.

Death-row celebrity confessed, plotted deputy-killing escape

World Net Daily (CA)

by Joseph Farah

November 30, 2005

The convicted quadruple murderer who founded the notorious Crips street gang has mobilized Hollywood celebrities in a bid to avert execution next month.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed Dec. 13 by lethal injection but is appealing to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency, with the help of celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, Russell Crowe, actor Mike Farrell, Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx and former model Bianca Jagger. Imprisoned since 1981, he is asking Schwarzenegger to grant him clemency because he says he has earned redemption through the writing of children's books.

New Focus on Peanut Allergies

ABC News

November 30, 2005

The death of a Canadian teenager who suffered a fatal allergic reaction to peanuts after kissing her boyfriend is putting a renewed focus on a condition suffered by thousands of Americans.

Fifteen-year-old Christina Desforges of Saguenay, Quebec, died last week after kissing her boyfriend, who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier. He passed along traces of peanuts to Desforges, who was severely allergic, and she immediately became short of breath. She was given a shot of adrenaline to counteract the symptoms, but that did not help. She died of respiratory failure in a Quebec City hospital.

Cybercrime now bigger than the drug trade

The Sydney Morning Herald

by Reuters

November 29, 2005

Global cybercrime generated a higher turnover than drug trafficking in 2004 and is set to grow even further with the wider use of technology in developing countries, a top expert said on Monday.

No country is immune from cybercrime, which includes corporate espionage, child pornography, stock manipulation, extortion and piracy, said Valerie McNiven, who advises the US Treasury on cybercrime. "Last year was the first year that proceeds from cybercrime were greater than proceeds from the sale of illegal drugs, and that was, I believe, over $US105 billion [$A143 billion]," McNiven told Reuters.

Black Friday Sale Shopping

Off The Shelf

by Annette M. Hall

November 27, 2005

Post Thanksgiving Day Sale Shopping

The Black Friday shopping stories have already begun to trickle in and some shoppers got more than they bargained for. Sale shopping isn't for the timid any more, it's a real jungle out there.

Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone.

Wired

by Kevin Kelleher

November 24, 2005

It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce. Google has always wanted to be more than a search engine.

Even in the early days, its ultimate goal was extravagant: to organize the world's information. High-minded as that sounds, Google's ever-expanding agenda has put it on a collision course with nearly every company in the information technology industry: Amazon.com, Comcast, eBay, Yahoo!, even Microsoft.

Google Analytics - Does it make me Chicken Little?

Reliable Answers

by Shawn K. Hall

November 16, 2005

Does it make me Chicken Little if I am concerned about the power webmasters are willingly handing over to Google? You decide...

I stumbled across an interesting new feature of Google today. Frankly, this is one of those that makes me wish the Google staff all had their personal cell phone numbers listed on their website so I could give them a piece of my mind. The feature is "Google Analytics" and it's based on Urchin. Basically an "Urchin on Steroids" but with scary implications.

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