One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Former TV station owner sentenced to 1,000 years in prison.
A former TV station owner is sentenced to 1,000 years in prison for sexual exploitation of children.
Peter Mallory was sentenced Tuesday in a Troup County courtroom on 60 counts of child exploitation.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Florida teachers among 50 charged in online child-sex sting.
Two teachers and two other school employees were among 50 people arrested as part of an online child-sex sting in central Florida, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.
“Operation Cardea” targeted people who use the Internet to sexually exploit children, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said, and the suspects were arrested over the past week, including four men arrested late Sunday night.
Source: Fox News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Federal Trade Commission published an article titled FTC’s Second Kids’ App Report Finds Little Progress in Addressing Privacy Concerns Surrounding Mobile Applications for Children.
The Federal Trade Commission issued a new staff report, “Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures report coverStill Not Making the Grade,” examining the privacy disclosures and practices of apps offered for children in the Google Play and Apple App stores. The report details the results of the FTC’s second survey of kids’ mobile apps.
Since FTC staff’s first survey of kids’ mobile apps in 2011, staff found little progress toward giving parents the information they need to determine what data is being collected from their children, how it is being shared, or who will have access to it. The report also finds that many of the apps surveyed included interactive features, such as connecting to social media, and sent information from the mobile device to ad networks, analytics companies, or other third parties, without disclosing these practices to parents.
Source: Federal Trade Commission
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Wetumpka youth minister to be sentenced for sex crimes in Elmore County.
MONTGOMERY, AL – Attorney General Luther Strange announced that a youth minister facing charges in Madison and Cullman counties for sex crimes against children is due to be sentenced on July 31 for similar crimes of which he has been convicted in Elmore County.
John A. Astorga was found guilty on April 11 by a jury in Elmore County Circuit Court for two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. During the trial, evidence that was presented by the Attorney General’s Office that included the testimony of three separate victims as well as the pastor of Bethel Assembly of God in Wetumpka where Astorga had been employed.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Digital Life published an article titled 12-year-old gets probation for Facebook cyberstalking.
That’s right, you read the headline correctly: A 12-year-old was given probation Wednesday after being charged with cyberstalking a former “friend” on Facebook.
Source: Digital Life
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Wi-Fi-hacking neighbor sentenced to 18 years.
Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors’ Wi-Fi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden.
Source: CNN
Protecting Children in Cyberspace is an article written by Greg Price (Director of the Alabama Computer Forensics Institute) that was published in a 2011 edition of Healthy Horizons Magazine. It provides an overview of why individuals should be concerned about how youth use the Internet. The link is also included in our Resources page.
Alabama Computer Forensics Institute 