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Social Networking Privacy. Latest News/Events White House Updates Privacy Policy, Maintains Anonymous Access But Also Data Retention: A revised privacy policy for the White House will go into effect on April 18, 2014.

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Users will continue to be able to access information posted on the White House web site anonymously, though personal information will be required for some services. The data retention practice has not changed nor has the policy for the disclosure of personal data to other entities. According to the White House privacy policy, "Information you choose to share with the White House (directly and via third party sites) may be treated as public information. " The White House had previously proposed a "Plan to Protect Privacy in the Internet Age by Adopting a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights", though the policy does not reflect this approach. Background Who Gets Access? Social networking sites give their users an easy way to share information about themselves. Social Media Influence: Social Media News & Intellegence. Social Media Parenting: Raising the Digital Generation.

Who are your kids friending on Facebook? What are they really texting to their classmates? How much online time is too much? Too often, parents who are misinformed about the social web (willfully or otherwise) will shut their kids out of it completely, only to find they are logging in anyway. If you're not taking an active role in your child's online life, you may be missing important opportunities to ensure they are on the path toward "digital citizenship," and protected from inappropriate content and people. To help shrink the tech-culture divide between parents and their kids, we sought advice from the experts, who draw not only from their own research, but their family experiences as well. Take an Active Role, and Do Your Homework For kids, social media can no longer be dismissed as a time-waster or distraction. So how do you grant kids the freedom to explore while still keeping an eye on their safety? "Parents can't just decide to keep their kids at a distance from all of this.

Mashup (web application hybrid) - Wikipedia, the free encycloped. In the past years[when?]

Mashup (web application hybrid) - Wikipedia, the free encycloped

, more and more Web applications have published APIs that enable software developers to easily integrate data and functions the SOA way, instead of building them by themselves. Mashups can be considered to have an active role in the evolution of social software and Web 2.0. Mashup composition tools are usually simple enough to be used by end-users. They generally do not require programming skills and rather support visual wiring of GUI widgets, services and components together. Therefore, these tools contribute to a new vision of the Web, where users are able to contribute. The broader context of the history of the Web provides a background for the development of mashups. The advent of Web 2.0 introduced Web standards that were commonly and widely adopted across traditional competitors and which unlocked the consumer data. Mashup enablers have also been described as "the service and tool providers, [sic] that make mashups possible".

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