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Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/84qqj2/internet_and_onlin) has announced the addition of the "Internet and Online Privacy: A Legal and Business Guide" book to their offering.

An Invaluable Reference For Anyone Trying To Understand The Law Governing Online Privacy And Companies' Use Of Personal Data

The collection of personal information on the Internet has been the focus of considerable public debate, litigation and legislation. This controversial area of law has not been explored in an in-depth, comprehensive manner until now.

Filled with scholarly analysis and pragmatic guidance, Internet and Online Privacy: A Legal and Business Guide addresses the state of the law of online and Internet privacy and its historical origins. It examines enforcement activity by the Federal Trade Commission, federal and state legislation and regulation, the U.S.-European Commission Safe Harbor Agreement, as well as some of the leading lawsuits in which claims of invasion of privacy on the Internet have been asserted. The book also compares U.S. law with approaches taken by our principal trading partners around the world. Readers will appreciate the authors' helpful practical advice on such matters as: how to draft a privacy policy to suit your company's needs; how to address privacy issues that are likely to arise in the workplace; and how technology can help you deal with these issues.

Key Topics Covered:

- Privacy: Definitions And Technology

- Why Business Cannot Afford To Disregard Consumer Privacy Concerns

- Development Of Regulatory Principles

- Relevant Federal Legislation: Privacy Provisions Of Coppa

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ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) In a new study analyzing Internet usage among college students, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have found that students who show signs of depression tend to use the Internet differently than those who show no symptoms of depression.

Using actual Internet usage data collected from the university's network, the researchers identified nine fine-grained patterns of Internet usage that may indicate depression. For example, students showing signs of depression tend to use file-sharing services more than their counterparts, and also use the Internet in a more random manner, frequently switching among several applications.

The researchers' findings provide new insights on the association between Internet use and depression compared to existing studies, says Dr. Sriram Chellappan, an assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T and the lead researcher in the study.

"The study is believed to be the first that uses actual Internet data, collected unobtrusively and anonymously, to associate Internet usage with signs of depression," Chellappan says. Previous research on Internet usage has relied on surveys, which are "a far less accurate way" of assessing how people use the Internet, he says.

"This is because when students themselves reported their volume and type of Internet activity, the amount of Internet usage data is limited because people's memories fade with time," Chellappan says. "There may be errors and social desirability bias when students report their own Internet usage." Social desirability bias refers to the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.

Chellappan and his fellow researchers collected a month's worth of Internet data for 216 Missouri S&T undergraduate students. The data was collected anonymously and unobtrusively, and students involved in the study were assigned pseudonyms to keep their identities hidden from the researchers.

Before the researchers collected the usage data from the campus network, the students were tested to determine whether they showed signs of depression. The researchers then analyzed the usage data of the study participants. They found that students who showed signs of depression used the Internet much differently than the other study participants.

Chellappan and his colleagues found that depressed students tended to use file-sharing services, send email and chat online more than the other students. Depressed students also tended to use higher "packets per flow" applications, those high-bandwidth applications often associated with online videos and games, than their counterparts.

Students who showed signs of depression also tended to use the Internet in a more "random" manner -- frequently switching among applications, perhaps from chat rooms to games to email. Chellappan thinks that randomness may indicate trouble concentrating, a characteristic associated with depression.

The randomness stood out to Chellappan after his graduate student, Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, examined the "flow duration entropy" of students' online usage. Flow duration entropy refers to the consistency of Internet use during certain periods of time. The lower the flow duration entropy, the more consistent the Internet use.

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Internet usage patterns may signify depression

As Googles Penguin update is having its fun, Bing has been relatively calm. There has not been a major update in a few months and everything seems perfect. Well, everything used to be perfect.

Theres a member on Webmaster World that noticed Bing was indexing fewer pages on his site. This wasnt a small change either. Bing used to index 500,000 URLs on the site, but was now only indexing 350,000. Thats a worrying change. The question now is whether or not Bing pushed some kind of update or if its just not indexing like it used to.

Search Engine Roundtable jumped on the case. They began to look at their own indexed pages and found the numbers to be fairly consistent. There we no major drops. OK, so what about impressions and clicks? They found that those numbers had exponentially increased. The crawl rate seemed to be normal as well.

So whats up with the guy who thinks Bing is not doing its fair share in indexing? We get a better idea by looking at the responses to his original post. Some Webmasters have shared in the original posters pain by saying their indexed pages have seen similar drops.

A later post sheds more light on the event though. They say that the people at Bing told them that all of their URLs are being indexed. Its just a problem with those numbers not showing up in results. Even so, thats a pretty serious problem if the Bing Webmaster Tools show sites being delisted or URLs no longer being indexed.

Weve reached out to Microsoft for comment and well update this story if we hear back.

Have you seen any changes in the amount of sites being indexed by Bing? I find it highly unlikely that Bing has rolled out an update, but the impending release of the new Bing may be having an effect on indexing for certain sites.

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For internet entrepreneur Njeri Rionge, Africa represents the next economic frontier. She say strong indigenous, African-owned companies are needed to take advantage of the boom times ahead.

Ms Rionge is as famous in Kenya for her success in starting up several companies at the same time as she is for Wananchi.com, a cable, broadband and internet-based telephone company.

She started her dot com dream and first big venture, Wananchi.com, with the hope of bringing internet connectivity to the masses. Today the firm has grown to become the largest internet service provider in East Africa and is worth $173 million (107 million) a huge sum for a firm with an initial start-up of $500,000 (308,000).

Despite her determination to succeed, she has not always known what she wanted to do.

"I touched many things before I touched the thing that I turned to gold," she told the BBC's African Dream series.

"I did hairdressing, I did buying and selling of clothes in London and then the thing that actually created the opportunity for success."

That opportunity came in the form of Wananchi.com in 1999, at a time when very few people had internet access.

She envisioned the easy access of information via the internet as a way of bridging the gap between East Africa's educated elite and the rest of the population.

Despite the necessity of the internet in modern communication and education, the beginning of Wananchi.com was not without its hurdles and frustrations.

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Africa's new digital frontier