Pin Itemailprint On January 24, Google announced major changes to its privacy policy, combining over 70 individual policies into one catch-all privacy policy. In the new policy, they come clean about how they collect and use data regarding their users. Of course, with the new policy comes new concerns about how our information is being [...]
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Here’s something that will probably creep you out. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of its plans to monitor Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. The plans show that the FBI is doing so in order to better respond to crises, and to possibly even predict them. Hello, “Minority Report”. A document [...]
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Google has just announced sweeping changes to its privacy policies that will allow the search behemoth to share user data collected across multiple services, an update that promises to stir controversy and raise a few eyebrows. The new privacy policies go into effect on March 1 and users have no choice but to accept the [...]
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A Chicago police officer is in hot water after tracking down Evagelina Paredes, a woman to whom he had issued a speeding ticket, and asking her out. After giving Paredes a $132 speeding ticket, officer Chris Collins tracked her down saying the least he could do for the money he cost her was to treat [...]
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UPDATE: The Supreme Court has basically overturned this ruling The all-out assault on your civil rights continues. There goes the Fourth Amendment too. A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the FBI didn’t need to obtain a search warrant to covertly attach a GPS device to a suspect’s vehicle in order to track his [...]
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Erin Andrews has filed another lawsuit over that nude video that emerged in 2008 after her stay in a Nashville hotel. It turns out a man altered a peephole so he could film the ESPN sports reporter while she was naked. The videos went viral on the internet in July 2009. The lawsuit, which was [...]
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It seems there’s a bug in Facebook‘s programming that has allowed users to see the private photos of other Facebook users since the site’s last software update on November 27. The hack was first reported by a popular bodybuilding site, but didn’t get much attention until yesterday when Mark Zuckeberg‘s private photos started to show [...]
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It seems like Facebook finds itself embroiled in some kind of controversy regarding user tracking and/or privacy just about every other month lately, so it should come as no surprise that the social networking giant is once again under the microscope. Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the service has been able to create a [...]
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An Australian tech blogger has uncovered some rather disconcerting information about Facebook and how the social network tracks its users. Facebook has admitted that it’s been watching the web usage of its visitors, even after those visitors have logged out. In its latest privacy fiasco, the social network now confirms it has been continually tracking its [...]
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The hacker collective known only as “Anonymous” has announced that, on November 5, it will destroy Facebook, “the medium of communication you all so dearly adore.” Anonymous is claiming they will coincide their destruction of Facebook with Guy Fawkes attempt to blow up the House of Lords on November 5, 1605. The English Catholic Guy [...]
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A computer repair tech in Orange County, California was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of installing spyware on laptops that let him take pictures of women while showering and undressing in their homes. Sgt. Andrew Goodrich says Trevor Harwell, 20, who works for Rezitech Inc., loaded a program that took control of the webcam on [...]
Facebook is about to start taking the “Face” part of its name very seriously. In a somewhat creepy development, the popular social network will soon be able to recognize faces. Facebook will soon be changing the way friends are “tagged” in photos, the company announced yesterday. Beginning in just a couple of weeks, Facebook will [...]
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