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Social networking services could face fines if they don't remove bullying material
The government has introduced a bill to establish a 'Children's e-Safety Commissioner' to spearhead initiatives targeting online bullying. The legislation also introduces a scheme for the "rapid removal" of bullying material targeting an Australian child that is posted on social networking sites, with social networks potentially facing fines if they fail to comply
"The bill sets out a two-tiered scheme for the rapid removal from large social media services of cyber-bullying material targeted at an Australian child," parliamentary secretary to the minister for communications Paul Fletcher said, introducing the Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill 2014.
"Social media services participating under tier 1 will do so on a cooperative basis; that is the service will apply to participate and if its application is accepted it will be included within tier 1."
If a complaint is made to the commissioner, he or she may issue a request for a tier 1 social network to remove material from its service. There is no legal obligation for a tier 1 service to remove material, but if a service repeatedly fails to remove material within 48 hours over a period of 12 months, the commissioner can request the communications minister declares it a tier 2 service.
"Those declared to be tier 2 social media services will be subject to legally binding notices or face the risk of civil penalties for non-compliance," Fletcher said.
"The two-tier scheme in the bill allows for a light touch regulatory scheme in circumstances where the social media service has an effective complaints scheme and it is working well; but it enables the government to require that cyber-bullying material targeted at an Australian child be removed in circumstances where a social media service does not have an effective and well-resourced complaints system. The commissioner will maintain registers of tier 1 and tier 2 social media services.
"The commissioner will also be able to publish statements about non-compliant social media services in respect of failing to comply with the basic online safety requirements failing to comply with a request for removal of cyber-bullying material or failing to comply with a social media service notice."
Only "large" social media services will be part of the scheme.
The commissioner can also issue "end-user notices" to individuals, the Coalition MP said.
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Past tweets, statuses and photos can either help or hinder students when it comes to looking for a job.
As of January 2014, 74 percent of adults online use social networking sites, according to the Pew Research Internet Project.
Of the 74 percentof adults using social networking sites, 89 percentof them were between the ages of 18 and 29.
I would say that social media has benefited my student employees, said Brittney Rutherford, program coordinator for the Department of Residence and ISU Dining.
The DOR hires hundreds of students across campus.
I dont see a positive or a negative impact of social media, Rutherford said.
Rutherford said she understands todays students have grown up with social media. Its simply what a lot of students are used to as means of communication, she said.
According to the project, as of January 2014, 19 percentof online adults use Twitter, as well.
They [the student employees] are the ones who keep me informed on what social media platforms their peers are using and the types of things they prefer to do on each platform, Rutherford said.
Rutherford said when they receive feedback from customers on their Department of Residence or ISU Dining platforms they are able to have a conversation with the customer through social media.
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Simply having a mobile phone in your pocket or on the table in front of you, even if youre not touching it, reduces the quality of conversations.
Social media has been accused of wiping away our table manners; diners seated with heads down, silent, screens scrolling, rather than conversing over a meal. Now the virtual playground is in the firing line not only for draining our batteries but for diminishing the quality of our human connections.
Tracking the phone data of 1 million Android users around the world in its App Trend Tracker Report, online security company AVG found that among Australians Facebook is having the biggest impact on phone performance, followed by Instagram, free calls and messaging, and a range of other apps.
Of the world's greediest mobile apps, four of the top 10 were in the social media category, with Facebook, Instagram, Path and textPlus making the heaviest impact on battery life, data consumption and storage, joined by communication apps such as QQ and BBM, and multimedia apps 9GAG and Spotify.
Michael McKinnon, AVG Australia's security adviser, says social networking apps tend to chew through battery life because many are in perpetual motion. "They want to alert you as soon as a message is available and they have to be in constant connection in order to notify you of that," he says.
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What the app performance report shows us, McKinnon says, is the penetration social media has in our lives. "Our obsession with social media is reflected in the performance of these apps; that they're under a lot of strain to provide us with real-time updates, messages, check-ins. All that functionality comes at a cost of keeping your mobile device extremely busy trying to keep up with your social life."
The phone's performance isn't the only thing to suffer as a result of our continual immersion in social networks.
Clinical psychologist Ben Buchanan says the constant use of mobile phones leads to brain drain a mindlessness where people perform on autopilot without fully paying attention to what is happening in the real world.
"We know from the research that people who are constantly on their mobile phones have smaller brain regions that are associated with the regulation of attention [anterior cingulate cortex]," Dr Buchanan says. "We also know that the brain is like a muscle the more we practice using particular parts, the bigger they become. So this research suggests that if people can learn to resist the temptation to check their phone and practice keeping their attention in the here and now, they may actually be able to grow their brain [anterior cingulate cortex], leading to better concentration and memory."
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