One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Business Insider published an article titled YIKES: Airtime Takes Photos Of Every User Who Is Using It.
Airtime, the new video chat service that lets you talk with random Facebook users, uses screen, video, and audio captures to ensure people aren’t engaging in naughty activities.
Source: Business Insider
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Children could soon become Facebook users.
(CNN) – The Wall Street Journal is reporting Facebook may lift its ban on kids under 13.
The social media site, according to the Wall Street Journal, is developing special new features for kids’ pages.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Texas teacher of the year accused of ‘sexting’ with teenage student.
A Texas man named teacher of the year by Colleyville Middle School was arrested over accusations he “sexted” with a teenage student.
John McDaniel, 32, was charged Thursday with improper relationship between educator and student, and online solicitation of a minor, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Source: Fox News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CBS New York published an article titled Police Use Facebook To Put End To Gang’s Crime Spree In Crown Heights.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said an officer from the 77th Precinct was able to track the suspects on social networking sites.
“He was able to get up on Facebook and ‘friend’ the members of the Brower gang to such an extent that he was able to track their next move,” Kelly said.
Officer Michael Rodriguez said the suspects would get bolder in what they wrote, like the videotaped crime.
Source: CBS New York
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Business world gets a new way to monitor employee text messages.
A startup called Uppidy has unveiled a service that backs up SMS services to the cloud, making it easier for individuals, parents, or even your employer to read your text messages.
Uppidy was founded by entrepreneur Joshua Konowe, who came up with the idea after dropping his cell phone in the toilet and going through a difficult process to retrieve his text messages from AT&T. The small startup in Washington, DC launched almost a year ago with a free service for consumers. In the past few weeks, the company started selling to the corporate world.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Prosecutors to appeal 30-day sentence in Rutgers gay bullying case.
The September 2010 death of Tyler Clementi, and Ravi’s trial this year, thrust the issue of cyberbullying and prejudices against homosexuals into the national spotlight.
Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman, plunged to his death into the Hudson River after learning Ravi had secretly spied via a webcam as Clementi kissed another man.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Montgomery Sheriff’s name used in Internet so-called “scam”.
Marshall says the scammers are calling victims, posing as the Montgomery County Sheriff. They threaten them with an arrest warrant, unless they send money. Marshall says the mindset is easy to recognize, “They instill fear in this people. I don’t want to be arrested, so I better send money.”
Corporal Kenneth Gordon is investigating the so-called scam for the Sheriff’s Office. Gordon puts it simply, “It’s a scam, it’s been a scam since the beginning.”
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Man shot in buttock over Facebook dispute.
The Tuscaloosa News reports that a 22-year-old man was driving when he thought he saw a man with whom he’d been having an ongoing Facebook argument.
Source: WSFA
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
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
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