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Nicholas Wiradharma
With the expansion of social networking websites and personal home pages there has been a huge increase in the development of cybercrimes relating to identity theft, fraud and privacy. This is a growing issue that society needs to bring to more awareness in order to prevent society from being victims of these cyber crimes.

Through my webpage presentation I will attempt to use culture jams along with my research analysis to compliment each other to try to being a stronger social awareness of this issues as these social networking web sites have ultimately become a haven for cybercrimes. My Wiki: http://wiradhar.wikispaces.com/

My Website Link: http://individual.utoronto.ca/wiradhar/index.htm

James Wen Shea 996275846**
 * Critical Analysis: Internet Privacy Laws

With the introduction of internet and related technologies, new forms of internet related behaviours of cyber crime emerge. Some behaviour examples include cyber stalking, cyber terrorism, cyber squatting, and other various cyber crimes. The increasing popularity of social networking sites have caused new issues relating to cyber crime. “The most common forms of cybercrimes linked to social networking websites are identity theft, password security and invasion of privacy. ” (N. K. Wiradharm, 2010) Thus, new laws are needed to be created to address these unacceptable new behaviours concerning the internet. For example, online privacy is a growing concerning issue surrounding social networking sites such as Facebook, and Myspace. According to Nicholas K. Wiradharm’s website, “millions of users around the world post up personal information on these networking websites to communicate their interests with others, share pictures and media, along with connecting with people worldwide. ” (Nicholas. K. Wiradharm, 2010). New privacy laws must be employed on these networking sites in order to protect internet users. According to a research paper, David Baumer, Julia Earp, and J. C. Poindexter presented a functional comparison between current privacy laws in Europe and in the Untited States. In summary, they concluded that current United States privacy acts are further lacking than in Europe. In addition, the right to privacy is much more strictly protected in European Union (EU) than in the U.S. Online Privacy Protection Act. (D. Baumer, J. Earp, and J.C. Poindexter, 2004) Furthermore, is it important to realize the rewards and risks of using the internet and social networking sites. As internet technologies evolve, it is necessary to implement new laws to compensate the protection of current internet users.

References: Baumer, David L., Earp, Julia B., and Poindexter, J. C. "Internet privacy law: a comparison between the United States and the European Union."Computers and Security volume 23 issue 5 (2004): 400-412. Web. 30 Mar 2010.

Critical Analysis (Shih-Ting Sherry Lo)

When first sight seeing Nicholas Wiradharma’s website, I immediately realized the assignment will have relationship with facebook, the layout and colour were similar to facebook and even have a logo “f” and “fakebook” appear on home page. Overall the website has clear and simple design that is fast to find each topic on the column. Also, it is easy to read each topic, because the page did not have much images or colour as he only applied related graphs and videos. In the assignment Nicholas discussed how crimes can be create from popular social networking websites, such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. When register the social networking websites users need to provide their personal information and need to create a password for login. However, the information store on the internet did not have a hundred percent secure there are many **identity theft online that steal information and commit** fraudulent activities. Each year population of online users increase and people are able to communicate with each other across the world, therefore, their information is transact around the world as privacy becomes a issue.

=**Critical Analysis**= Diana Kang

The topic chosen for your essay is an interest to me because just recently I have been questioning my rights as a citizen. There seems to be little to no privacy for Internet users and I am suddenly very aware of the information which I choose to display whether it be through my Facebook profile or my personal blog. After reading your essay, I decided to conduct further research that would provide more information in regards to the escalating issue of Cybercrime. Through my research, I discovered that consumerism contributes greatly to the increasing rate of Cybercrime committed on the Internet. Marketers use the Internet as one of their main mediums in selling consumers such goods as there are millions of people all over the world who are Internet users. With this being said, according to a consumer market which conducted a survey, they found that one in every five online consumers have been victims of Cybercrimes (Consumer Reports, 2009). In other words, those that do online shopping where they assume that their personal information is kept confidential is in fact not secure. As mentioned in your essay, our information and such activities posted online are being sold to the consumer market in which they are able to create such products according to our interests and needs. This creates awareness in being cautious of how we utilize the Internet as the Cybercrime rates continue to increase.

//Consumer Reports; Consumer Reports Survey: One in Five Online Consumers Have Been Victims of Cybercrime// (2009): 3296. //Science Letter [Atlanta]//. 19 May 2009. Web. 30 Mar. 2010. .
 * Reference**

by Soomin Hazel Suh**
 * Critical Analysis

First of all, I have to mention that the main reason I have decided to analyse his topic is that the layout of the website really grabbed me. It is simple and light, yet very well-organized and clear of what the website is about: the Facebook. The topic is also the factor that caught me, since the Facebook is our daily-life concern, and is very relevant to current trend. The introduction to the paper shows clearly what the "social networking site" and the "cyber crime" is about, and I believe it is significant because both of the terms are unusual and pretty new words to the society that whoever not friendly with internet or cyber society would be clueless about what they are about. Although, it could have been better by stating what the thesis of the paper is going to be about. The paper overall introduce and provide well explanation about what are different "cyber crimes" that can be occur in the social networks. Considering most of the crimes are new to the society hence with not lot of information and research work done out there; they are well-discussed with relevant charts and the video.