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Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 13, 2011 Facebook's new face-recognition ability goes too far, critics say![]() ![]() Discuss how newspaper content and Facebook posts generally differ in terms of usefulness, reliability and fairness.
![]() Is Facebook in the news again this week? Look for any report on that site or other social media.
![]() Does this paper have a Facebook page and links for users to recommend articles?
A new Facebook feature makes some people want to click "dislike" or "undo." A tool called Tag Suggestions lets users identify friends automatically in photos without their permission. Facial recognition software can match people in newly uploaded images with other photos in which they're tagged (identified by name). It's no surprise that the words "facial recognition" and "Facebook" cause unease when they appear together. "It spooks people that the program can figure out who they are," says Jim Tiller, vice president of security for BT Global Services, a British telecommunications firm. Creating what he calls a "digital fingerprint" of people also raises concerns about a new kind of cyber-stalking, Tiller adds. Across the Atlantic, a group of European Union data-protection regulators last week opened an inquiry to see if the new capability violates privacy rules. . While users can click off the Tag Suggestions feature, Facebook quietly made it a default setting without asking who wanted it activated. The firm acknowledges a misstep. "We should have been more clear with people during the rollout process when this became available to them," says a statement issued late last week by the social networking giant, which says it has more than 500 million active users worldwide.
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