The online privacy of individuals has profound implications for enterprise security. Many of the online tools that employees use - from Google and Bing to Facebook and LinkedIn - collect and store explicit records of user queries, Web travel, and social graphs. Profile aggregators assemble and market databases of user profiles, which include information combed from various sites. The unprecedented scale and precision of this sort of profiling has long been a concern to privacy advocates, but now enterprises should be taking notice as well.

The business and regulatory pressures regarding privacy continue to push in many directions, some toward greater protection for consumers and others toward allowing companies to make greater use of personal data. These tensions are not on their way to being resolved. Instead, they are part of a perpetual balancing act. Stakeholders occupying any part of this dynamic will fare best by remaining flexible and responsive to changes while being mindful of their own interests.

The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying can be defined as “Willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.” It is also known as “cyber bullying,” “electronic bullying,” “e-bullying,” “sms bullying,” “mobile bullying,” “online bullying,” “digital bullying,” or “Internet bullying.”