One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Montgomery Advertiser published an article titled Prattville, Montgomery police see increase in ‘sexting’ among teenagers.
About once every two weeks, Sgt. Geary Graves of the Prattville Police Department handles a sexting-related issue involving teenagers.
Graves, who works in computer forensics, said it has risen from the about one case every three or four months that they had only a few years ago.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Reports: Teen Daniel Perry commits suicide over Skype blackmail scam.
Reports that a Scottish teenager took his own life after becoming the victim of an alleged Internet blackmail scam have heightened concerns in Britain over online abuse.
Daniel Perry, from Dunfermline, was reportedly the victim of blackmailers who recorded his interactions via Skype with a person he believed was an American girl his own age.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Study: Using Facebook can make you sad.
When you click “Like” on your friends’ Facebook posts, do you really mean it?
If seeing your Facebook friends living wonderful, fun-filled lives gives you a case of the blues, you’re not alone. A new University of Michigan study found that the more people checked Facebook, the more likely they were to feel worse about their own lives.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Man tweets for weed; job goes up in smoke.
Instead of reaching out by phone or walking to his friendly neighborhood drug dealer, the user, using the handle @Sunith_DB8R, tweeted that he needed a joint delivered to his workplace in Vaughan, just north of Toronto.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Does Facebook have your payment details? It wants you to go buy stuff.
On Thursday, Facebook confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that it plans on testing “a new payments product that would allow online shoppers to make purchases on mobile apps using their Facebook login information.”
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Arrest shines light on human trafficking.
Police found out about the alleged crime when a female juvenile escaped a Dothan hotel room where she said she was being held. She ran to another hotel and a patron there called the police. She said she was taken from Mississippi, forced to take drugs and sold for sex.
Source: Dothan Eagle
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. SFGate published an article titled GOOGLE: If You Send To Gmail, You Have ‘No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy’.
If you happen to send an email to one of the 400 million people who use Google’s Gmail service, you shouldn’t have any expectation of privacy, according to a court briefing obtained by the Consumer Watchdog website.
In a motion filed last month by Google to have a class action complaint dismissed, Google’s lawyers reference a 1979 ruling, holding that people who turn over information to third parties shouldn’t expect that information to remain private.
Source: SFGate
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Medics: Man convicted of child sex abuse swallowed cyanide in court.
Paramedics say a man who died soon after being convicted of child sex abuse took a deadly dose of cyanide in the courtroom.
The medics say they’ve been told that 42-year-old William Moore of Northport, swallowed cyanide after the verdict was read.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published a video titled Hackers watch child over camera monitor.
A man in Texas says the baby monitor in his daughter’s room was hacked.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Former University of Alabama and NFL linebacker Saleem Rasheed begins serving time on plea to teacher sex charges.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Former University of Alabama and NFL linebacker Saleem Abdul Rasheed, carrying a copy of the Quran and a skull cap called a Kufi, surrendered to a judge this morning to begin serving a sentence for his guilty plea to charges that he had sex with two students at Woodlawn High School while he was a teacher at that school.
Source: AL.com
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