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Related News: Facebook Privacy: 5 Most Ignored Mistakes

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. InformationWeek published an article titled Facebook Privacy: 5 Most Ignored Mistakes.

Facebook no longer represents that it offers privacy as a matter of policy, like some other companies do. It states outright that it will use your data. It has a Data Use Policy instead of a Privacy Policy.

But consider the dictionary definition of privacy: 1) The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people; 2) The state of being free from public attention. If that’s your gold standard, then you cannot use Facebook or any other online service for that matter, at least not without privacy-protecting technology. Once you venture online, once you share, you’re talking about something less than privacy. Online services may talk about how they respect privacy, but they should really be talking about data usage and sharing.

Source: InformationWeek

Related News: New charges in global Facebook sextortion case

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled New charges in global Facebook sextortion case.

A 31-year-old Montgomery, Alabama man is facing new criminal charges in connection with an online sextortion plot that investigators believe now spans the globe.

Christopher Patrick Gunn was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Montgomery with two counts of production of child pornography, three counts of interstate extortion, and three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity.

Those indictments are in addition to the two counts of possession of child pornography with which he had already been charged, U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., explained.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Trial date set for accused teacher

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. St. Clair Times published an article titled Trial date set for accused teacher.

TA trial date was set Tuesday for a former Williams Intermediate School teacher who is accused of the rape of a juvenile boy.

St. Clair County Circuit Court Judge Jim Hill tentatively set the trial for Heather Rich Whitten, 38, of Pell City, for August.

Whitten was indicted in February for second-degree rape after she allegedly had sexual intercourse with a juvenile male who was younger than 16 years old but older than 12 years old. She was also indicted for sodomy and for enticing a child for immoral purposes.

Source: St. Clair Times

Related News: Social media creating issues for school systems

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Social media creating issues for school systems.

As social media use becomes more widespread, school systems are increasingly having to deal with issues created by student and teacher interaction via sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

In two recent local cases of alleged inappropriate relationships between students and teachers, interaction between students and teachers via social networks is a factor in the cases.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Court Bailiff: Detroit Judge Wade McCree Sent a Nearly Nude Photo of Himself to My Cell Phone

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. myFoxDetroit.com published an article titled Court Bailiff: Detroit Judge Wade McCree Sent a Nearly Nude Photo of Himself to My Cell Phone.

(myFOXdetroit.com) – A husband is upset after finding a photo of a nearly nude man on his wife’s cell phone. She says the photo came from her boss? What does she do for a living?  She’s a court bailiff. Who’s her boss? Detroit 3rd Circuit Judge Wade McCree.

Source: myFoxDetroit

Related News: “The hidden side of your soul”: How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled “The hidden side of your soul”: How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot.

The e-mail had not arrived in Cafferty’s inbox by accident. Back in 2006, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had opened a major investigation into a string of child porn websites. As part of that work, ICE learned that the sites used PayPal to receive money and disguised the nature of the purchases by using odd subject identifiers. A website called Sick Child Room 2005, for instance, used as its PayPal subject identifier the phrase “SickCR Package v.5.06 Build 3638″—which makes it sound like a software purchase. Instead, the site served up sections with names like “Door 1,” “Door 5,” and “Medic’s Corner.” Behind the doors waited 150 videos and 20,000 child porn images.

Source: Ars Technica

Related News: Rehobeth High teacher placed on leave pending sex charges

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Rehobeth High teacher placed on leave pending sex charges.

A Rehobeth High School teacher has been placed on administrative leave after Houston County Sheriff’s investigators charged him with having sex with a student.

Tim Pitchford, the superintendent for Houston County Schools, said he’s placed Robert Lee Michel on administrative leave after he was notified by Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes of the pending felony charges filed against Michel.

Source: The Dothan Eagle

Related News: Missing child case ‘awakened America’

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Missing child case ‘awakened America’.

(CNN) — More than 30 years ago, 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished from a Manhattan street on his way to a school bus stop. His parents never saw him again.

The case — lately reopened by police — riveted millions. It also changed the country.

“It awakened America,” said Ernie Allen, president and chief executive officer of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. “It was the beginning of a missing children’s movement.”

Source: CNN

Related News: Soldier reprimanded for Facebook death message

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Soldier reprimanded for Facebook death message.

FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) – A Fort Carson soldier involved in using Facebook to tell the wife of another soldier that her husband was killed in Afghanistan is at the center of an investigation for his actions, according to military sources.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Fake Bieber accused of abusing girl online

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. News.com.au published an article titled Fake Bieber accused of abusing girl online.

A CANADIAN man accused of posing as teen idol Justin Bieber and coaxing a young girl to perform sex acts online may have victims in up to five countries, authorities in Canada and the US say.

Source: News.com.au