Related News: Parents fight cyberbullying with lawsuit

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A Texas family is trying to fight cyberbullying in court.

Reymundo and Shellie Esquivel are filing a lawsuit this week against six of their teenage daughter’s schoolmates and their parents, alleging that the students created an Instagram account aimed at humiliating her and fellow classmates.

“When we opened up the web page on Instagram, we opened up Pandora’s box,” Shellie Esquivel told TODAY’s Janet Shamlian. “There was a picture of her and all these vulgar postings of her underneath the photograph.”

Source: TODAY

Related News: Colorado teacher asked students to send topless photos, police say

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The Fruita Police Department says 58-year-old public school teacher Randy Majors is facing 3 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and 5 counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child.

According to an arrest affidavit, a parent told police she was going through her 16-year-old daughter’s Facebook account and found a message asking her daughter to send nude pictures of herself and to not tell anyone. Police say they later discovered several conversations with other students ranging from 15 to 17 years old.

Source: Fox News

Related News: Nintendo shuts down SpotPass features for Swapnote on 3DS

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Nintendo has abruptly shut down the SpotPass functionality for Swapnote on 3DS, noting that players were “exchanging their friend codes on Internet bulletin boards” and then using SwapNote to “exchange offensive material.” SpotPass allowed players to exchange photos directly with others using the app.

Source: Joystiq

Related News: Investigators ask for help identifying possible sexters

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Huntsville investigators need your help identifying men who police believe are violating an eighth-grader continuously by sending her lewd pictures of themselves.

Sexting is a crime that grows as technology advances. Some teens believe it only affects your reputation. But when it involves children, it inherently involves police.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Facebook rolls out shared photo albums

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Next time you host a soiree, you can collect photos of the event from your guests in one album on Facebook.

The social network has added shared photo albums so people can throw photos from an event or of a common subject into a single spot. The new shared album feature, first reported by Mashable, is rolling out to English-speaking users of the social network but will eventually be available around the world.

Source: CNN

Related News: FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees.

It sounds like the plot of a bad movie: bugging your boss’ office. Sending naked photos around to co-workers. Sexting in the office. Paying for sex in a massage parlor.

But it all happened in the federal agency whose motto is “fidelity, bravery, integrity” — the FBI.

These lurid details are outlined in confidential internal disciplinary reports obtained by CNN that were issued to FBI employees as a way to deter misconduct.

Source: CNN

Related News: Study: Vast Majority Of Homemade Porn, Private Photos End Up Online

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WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – The vast majority of homemade pornography and private images on personal computers ends up on public websites called “parasites.”

Eighty-eight percent of homemade pornography, including videos and still images, finds its way onto porn sites, often without the owners’ knowledge, a new study from Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has found.

The study analyzed more than 12,000 sexually explicit images uploaded by young people and found that the great majority of images had been stolen and published to what the organization calls, “parasite” websites.

Source: CBS DC

Related News: Man arrested for producing child pornography

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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – Huntsville police arrested a man on child porn charges Tuesday.

Investigators said 53-year-old Herman Oscar Watkins attempted to develop photos of nude children at two area Walmart stores.

Source: WSFA