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By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/22/2012 1:05:38 PM The ranking members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee have sent letters to 34 vendors of Apple mobile social networking apps seeking information on data collection and use practices. Reports of social networking app Path collecting address book info and photos without users' knowledge or consent prompted the letter and were just the latest red flag for legislators concerned about protection personal data online. The tone of the letter was not accusatory. "We are writing to you because we want to better understand the information collection and use policies and practices of apps for Apple's mobile devices with a social element," they wrote. Joining Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) in the request was G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), ranking member of the Commerce Subcommittee. The pair had already fired off a letter to Apple last month about Path, seeking its side of the story. Among the companies targeted were Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook. The letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, for example, seeks info on what the company considers data that requires prior consent before collecting; how data collection, either user or device data, directly relates to the application's function; how many times its app has been downloaded in the past month; and much more.

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BOCA RATON, Fla., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Professional Social Networking Group (PSNG) will host a networking event on Wednesday, March 28th, from 5:30-8:00 PM at The Boca Raton Museum of Art in Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL.

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Local professionals are all invited to attend. The event will have $0 cover, 1 complimentary drink included, 400+ people, six charity groups (including American Cancer Society and Relay for Life) with display tables to promote their causes, live music, five professional speakers giving business seminars in a separate lecture room, photographers, videographers, food samples from Oceans 234 Restaurant, Potions in Motion providing mobile bar service, and multiple co-hosts including the South Florida Chamber of Commerce. Professional attire Only.

Pre-registration is required before 12 Noon on 3/28 through this link: http://www.PSNGatBocaMuseum.eventbrite.com

Founder Jeff Tockman created the group in May 2009, to help people in the community build business and professional relationships through recurring networking events. PSNG events mix the best elements of professional networking with the fun and casual nature of a social get-together. PSNG Networking Events are held at various venues throughout South Florida, mostly near Boca Raton.

"The Professional Social Networking Group offers such a rich environment of business professionals and I am amazed at home many new people I meet at each event. The atmosphere is always friendly, and the people are more outgoing and easier to talk to than at other networking events I have been to. I highly recommend attending the networking events to anyone who is looking to expand their business." Daniel Sanz, President, Fade 2 Black Productions, Inc.

PSNG is run entirely by volunteers. Individual people and businesses donate such things as venue space, photography, videography, entertainment, graphic design, printing and more. Volunteers donate their time to help work the registration table at the event, or work behind the scenes to make sure the event runs smoothly. They invest their own resources and in return receive experience, credibility, goodwill, and most importantly, professional relationships.

Professional Social Networking Group (PSNG) is a leading organization in South Florida dedicated to fostering the development of business and personal relationships through a recurring series of networking events. For more information and to register for event invitations, please visit PSNG at http://www.ProfessionalSocialNetworkingGroup.com.

Jeff Tockman Professional Networking and Referral Consultant Founder, Professional Social Networking Group (PSNG) Founder, Tockman Consulting 561-755-PSNG (7764) jefftockman@gmail.com http://www.TockmanConsulting.com http://www.PSNG.co

Media Contact: Jeff Tockman Professional Social Networking Group, 561-755-7764, jefftockman@gmail.com

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20-03-2012 10:27 If you haven't heard of "ambient social networking" yet, get ready, because it's quickly becoming a trend. The concept is also known as social discovery and, essentially, it takes the idea of check-in services a little further. These new location-based apps run silently behind the scenes on users' mobile devices and notify them when other users they know enter the same vicinity. Highlight is one app that does this and, although the space is still young, it is already emerging as a leader. WebProNews spoke with its Founder and CEO Paul Davison who told us that the concept would change the way people interact in the future. As he explained, users have been actively sharing information about themselves for quite sometime. However, with apps like Highlight, this information is shared passively, which he believes will have a "profound impact" on social networking going forward. While these apps are gaining a lot of attention, they've also been raising some concerns over the creepy factor of the trend. Davison told us that this reaction was to be expected with any new form of technology. In fact, he said if users didn't raise concerns, as they had with Facebook and other new concepts, he would be worried that it wouldn't succeed.

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Nashoba School Committee Chairman Nancy Federspiel gave committee members a preview of a proposed draft of a last week. The draft, which was created by the policy committee and requires, among other things, teachers to use their Nashoba Regional School District email accounts when acting as a Nashoba employee to communicate with parents and students through social-networking sites like Facebook.

Teachers must also use professional etiquette and maintain appropriate boundaries. Additionally, under the regulations of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act, teachers must contact administration to confirm parental consent before contacting children under 13 through social networking sites.

Teachers can still use personal email accounts to communicate with parents and students when not discussing work-related matters. However, Superintendent Michael Wood said communicating with students on personal matters was strongly discouraged.

When School Committee member Julie Fay asked if teachers should report students who post inappropriate comments, Federspiel said it was not necessary when using a personal account. Wood said postings that violate school policy should always be reported, regardless of whether it is necessary to do so. He cited the honor system of reporting athletes in violation of the alcohol policy as an example.

Federspiel thanked teachers Loretta Williams and Al Fordiani for their dedication to creating the draft, and said its purpose was to provide some guidance for teachers as well as protection for everybody.

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Wood announced that work on the outdoor areas of Center School has resumed after an order to stop work was delivered Wednesday, March 7. Work inside sections of the school was not affected by the order.

The order was the result of actions taken by what Wood called an overzealous subcontractor, who failed to complete paperwork to shut off gas and electricity coming in from the street before demolishing a section of the old school. Wood said gas and electricity had been shut off inside the building before the demolition, but regulations to shut off gas and electricity in the street had not been followed.

Wood said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration agency would investigate the matter. He said the investigation may result in fines, but was not sure of the likelihood of that outcome, nor of the amount the potential fines could cost.

Wood said work is on schedule for Phase 2 despite the brief shutdown.

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WA's young are more connected than ever, using their mobile devices for everything from social networking, shopping and gambling to reading news and sexting.

_The West Australian _ and HBF's iGeneration survey has confirmed ever-increasing usage of smartphones and social networking among the State's 18 to 30-year-olds, with 40 per cent of them saying they could not imagine their lives without social media.

"Young people take the internet with them everywhere they are going," Curtin University internet studies lecturer Tama Leaver said.

"Most will have a smartphone and not just be using it for text and conversation. They will be doing a lot of the things we take for granted now on the web and social networking is one of the biggest things.

"Facebook is almost a replacement for email these days. It's the thing you almost have to use to communicate."

The iGen survey found just 10 per cent said they did not use social networking sites, compared with 26 per cent in 2009.

More than a third of iGens spend six to 20 hours a week on sites such as Facebook and 7 per cent claim to spend more than 21 hours using them.

The survey also found a third of men and 23 per cent of women used their mobile phone for sending explicit sexual messages or images.

Dr Leaver said sexting was not necessarily a cause for concern between consenting adults. "For a lot of people their mobile devices are caught up in the entire spectrum of their lives and that includes the intimate moments," he said.

"It's by no stretch unusual to think your most intimate moments might be shared across devices as much as they might be shared when you are in the same room.

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