Essays on Online Identity

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten the readers about the Cyber crimes in Saudi Arabia. The paper draws upon a rising issue in the world since the use of technology and the Internet has spread out widely that is “Cyber crime.” The aspects explored in this literature review are the types of cybercrimes and the extent of cyber crimes that exist in Saudi Arabia. It furthermore addresses the negative impact of such cyber crimes related to the use of Internet by individuals and businesses. This review paper takes a close look at some of the estimates of ...

Introduction

Technology has significantly affected the way people read, learn, communicate, play and entertain themselves. The generation Y got more impacted with the technology as compared to older people due to frequent use of technology in different aspects of life. Experts have diverse opinion about the effect of technology on generation Y. Opponents claim that excessive use of technology decreases learning ability of people, adversely affect their health, make them isolated, and cause behavioral challenges such as violent and aggressive behavior. Youngsters who play violent video games often become aggressive and they show violent behavior in their schools and home. ...

More and more of people’s everyday lives are occurring online. Unlike many previous generations, the current generations are growing up in an increasingly isolated world, with much of their contact with other people taking place through the Internet. Of course, not all human interaction will fall by the wayside as a result of this increasingly-cyber world, but now much of the human interaction that used to take place in the “real world” occurs over the Internet. Using the Internet as a tool to find a romantic partner, for instance, is one way that the Internet has changed the face of human ...

Online identity theft

Online identity theft occurs when an unauthorized party acquires personal identifying data about someone such as credit card or bank account information through the internet and uses such information to commit fraud or other criminal activities. Factors that promotes online identity theft can be political, economic, social or technological in nature (Hedayati, 2012). Political factors include instability and civil wars that cause massive illegal immigration to other countries where immigrants steal identities in order to secure employment. Economic factors include unemployment and poverty that force people to engage in criminal acts. Social factors include the uninhibited communication within social ...

Online identity refers to a social identity that internet users establish over online websites and communities. This is also an active construction of one’s identity. People reveal their identity online in different ways. There are some people who prefer to use real names while others choose to use synonyms. This causes the variation in online identity for various people. Maintaining one’s identity with clean record defines concrete online ethnicity. Identity has been supported by various philosophers as concrete ethical issue in online communication. Online identity is defined by the status of one’s communication with colleagues and friends ...

Criminal Justice

1 A Spatial Analysis of Neighbourhood Crime in Omaha, Nebraska Using Alternative Measures of Crime Rates

The research focuses on four kinds of crime and their spatial patterns. The crimes studied are: a) robbery, b) assault, c) burglary, and d) auto theft. Geographic information system or GIS procedures were used to correlate the occurrence of these crimes with the characteristics of a neighbourhood in the City of Omaha, Nebraska. Ordinary least square methods were also employed. For alternate measures of the crime rate, crime density and crime location quotients were deduced. There research yielded three vital results. To begin with, the findings ...

Introduction

This is a social structure which is made up of individuals connected together by some interdependency like friendship, common interest or any kind of relationship that can make the individuals share something in common. A typical social network is composed of individuals called nodes and the connections called ties. The ties involve the interconnections between the individuals. In our study we are going to carry out a research on social network and how it has impacted the society. We are also going to look at its benefits and analysis of various social networking sites with an evaluation of their statistics ...

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The internet has been hailed as one of the best inventions in human history. It presents seemingly endless opportunities in diverse areas including the ability to carry out business transactions over the internet. Online commerce has developed in leaps and bounds over the last decade and more complex transactions are now possible over the cyberspace. With this development has come an associated problem; cyber identity fraud. This research paper seeks to identify the trends in cyber identity fraud, analyze the legal issues involved in cyber identity fraud and make appropriate recommendations on the changes that can be made to ...