Digital etiquette
Cyber bullying: Ryan Halligan had an early learning disability. his parents put him in a special school to help him with his development issues, Ryan's academic and physical disabilities made him a popular target for one particular bully. this occurred when at school between the fifth and seventh grade. Ryan shared a personal story which was then turned into a rumour about him being gay. Ryan thought he had a friendship with a pretty popular girl through AOL instant messenger. he later realised that this girl and her friends thought it would be funny and cool to make Ryan think they liked him and used it to make him share more personal embarrassing stories and material. the girl copied and pasted everything into AIM exchanges with her friends which led Ryan to commit suicide by hanging himself in the family bathroom.
consequences of cyber bullying: depending on the act of bullying there can be legal actions, there are charges of harassment, emotional pain ,negligence and vicarious liability.
Identity theft: Amy Krebs received a phone call one Friday at work she had been called by the same number the day before as well from a popular credit card company ,asking to call them she immediately thought it was a scam. she checked the phone number of the credit card company and it was a popular credit card companies fraud department. they told her somebody had tried to get a credit card using her name , address and social security number and asked if she had signed up for a credit card but she said no they said that they would deactivate it but still sent the credit card to this address but it was not Amy's. Amy later found out that a female had been using her information for six months, she placed a fraud alert on her credit card reports and froze it. she used Amy's maiden name and surname and ten year old name and address to receive medical attention.
consequences of identity theft: police department built up a case against her, she also had a warrant of arrest out for her. in general stealing someone's identity and committing fraud will lead to serious jail time.
Corrupting computer systems: about 100 people used forged standard bank credit cards to withdraw 1.8 billion in Japanese yen which is over 250 million rand. they withdrew the money from 1400 ATMS in Tokyo and a few other areas in japan in under three hours . they had unauthorised access of a computer system of standard bank in South Africa.
consequences: serious jail time for fraud.
invading peoples privacy: a 20 year old woman was stalked and murdered through posting on social media, checking in on Facebook which was allowing people to know her current location.
consequences: murder is serious jail time, life sentence depending on the judge and jury and stalking people is a criminal offence, the victim can have a restraining order on the perp but in this case she could not because it was too late.
short list on guiding online etiquette:
-Avoid inappropriate materials
-Report fraud immediately
-Don't share personal details (account details) via phone calls or via messaging
-Don't share personal information on social media or to anybody you do not know
- Don't be a cyber bully
- Treat people the way you want to be treated
-Do not break the law online
-Don't post graphic content in a place that it should not be seen.
consequences of identity theft: police department built up a case against her, she also had a warrant of arrest out for her. in general stealing someone's identity and committing fraud will lead to serious jail time.
Corrupting computer systems: about 100 people used forged standard bank credit cards to withdraw 1.8 billion in Japanese yen which is over 250 million rand. they withdrew the money from 1400 ATMS in Tokyo and a few other areas in japan in under three hours . they had unauthorised access of a computer system of standard bank in South Africa.
consequences: serious jail time for fraud.
invading peoples privacy: a 20 year old woman was stalked and murdered through posting on social media, checking in on Facebook which was allowing people to know her current location.
consequences: murder is serious jail time, life sentence depending on the judge and jury and stalking people is a criminal offence, the victim can have a restraining order on the perp but in this case she could not because it was too late.
short list on guiding online etiquette:
-Avoid inappropriate materials
-Report fraud immediately
-Don't share personal details (account details) via phone calls or via messaging
-Don't share personal information on social media or to anybody you do not know
- Don't be a cyber bully
- Treat people the way you want to be treated
-Do not break the law online
-Don't post graphic content in a place that it should not be seen.
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