'Looking up information on social media is starting to become a standard part of the background checks which employers run on prospective job candidates, or even on existing employees. This briefing, the last in a three-part series on social media, looks at whether such checks: can be used as a basis for rejecting a job candidate; infringe an employee's data protection rights or privacy; or permit an employer to dismiss an employee.'
Using Social Media in the education world is growing but many are still hesitant because they do not see the value or feel they have the time.
Campaigners are calling for restrictions on the way magazines airbrush photos. Seeing your face and body transformed is an unnerving experience.
Read the BBC article here.
'What does every princess need? A dress? A tiara? Glass slippers? A palace? A fairy Godmother? A handsome prince?
No. What every princess needs – what we all need – is autonomy. Every one of the Disney Princesses struggles to get the kind of life they want, pushed in ways they don't want by powerful forces, by established norms, and by systems that seem designed to control them. How can they break free? How can they gain the autonomy they want? One key tool for all of them is to have more control over their privacy and their identity.' Continue reading..
An interesting blog post on the subject of how, with today's technologies, we are more connected but also more alone.
One person's experience of a posthumous tweeting service. Read the article here.
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