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One of the time-tested ways of deflecting criticism is blaming what you're being accused of on the other guy.
Today in tech news, one of the stories I've seen bounced around centers on allegations Facebook engaged in a ...
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Is anyone else beginning to think that Facebook's entire focus is desensitizing users to privacy breaches?
The leaky social network has again exposed user data to third parties, this time inadvertently allowing advertisers to obtain "access tokens," which ...
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The idea of your unpaid student loan debts or late car payments being publicized on your Facebook wall is probably pretty unpleasant sounding.
With high unemployment and a record wealth divide right now in the US, it also ...
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Social media movements are again being discussed as possible pivotal evidence in a high-profile murder case, this time with a defense lawyer claiming Twitter updates prove his client's self-defense claim.
18-year-old Shanterrica Madden stands accused of the murder ...
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Although it's kind of like blaming cars for transporting people to affairs more easily, Facebook has again been named as a factor in one out of five divorces in the United States.
We first posted about this particular ...
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C'mon guys- this totally looks legit!
A dating site that opens with a pic of creepy basement guy and his mail-order Eastern European bride clad in Walmart attire and smiling unnervingly has gotten in a bit of hot ...
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In a case that could set legal precedent regarding the impact of social media activities on your academic and ultimately professional prospects, students at a Kansas community college were removed from the nursing program at a community ...
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Technology and its widespread use evolves daily, and as it does, the way sometimes intensely personal information is used (possibly against you) by companies and agencies often has no legal precedent.
One such case would be the collection ...
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Sometimes you read about strategies for interacting via social media that simplify things or alert you to a new, better way of using these tools to communicate with friends, co-workers, clients or relatives.
Then there's this, which is ...
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If you're sworn to uphold the law or hope to be, should you have to bend over and allow hiring directors to sift through your personal communications and base personnel decisions on that content?
If a recent piece ...
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Privacy concerns surrounding Facebook are nothing new- indeed, at this point, one of the first things that springs to mind alongside the world's most popular social network is the frequent news that somehow, somewhere Facebook is currently ...
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Occasionally, people in my Facebook feed will post and repost a status update about not how not to have information you'd not like public leaked on Facebook.
"Get a piece of paper and write down all the things ...
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Have you ever used a public computer terminal and discovered with horror that the person who used the device before you left their Facebook or GMail accounts logged in, open to public tampering?
Maybe you've done it yourself, ...
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It's kind of interesting (albeit a little scary) to watch legal precedents develop around technology we've all already been using for years.
We've posted before about lawyers regarding Facebook as an "evidentiary goldmine" in divorce cases, and everyone ...
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If you haven't noticed, "Facebook whining" has reached a crescendo in the past few weeks as the company continues to make changes that dribble bits of user information out onto the internet at large.
Instances of threatening to ...
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An unnamed 16-year-old boy from Arkadelphia, Arkansas is suing his mother for breaking into his Facebook account and like, totally embarrassing the hell out of him.
Denise New's son brought action against her last month and requested a ...
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Remember last week when Facebook had that problem where an undetermined number of users received messages in their Facebook inboxes that belonged to complete strangers and they said it was no big deal?
We told you about the ...
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It was like PostSecret.
Except it wasn't random postcards, it was whole emails. And instead of people knowingly sending their darkest secrets and innermost feelings anonymously to a guy who vets them and posts them, their Facebook messages ...
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A limited study of 5,436 divorce cases by a law firm found that around 20% of the filings cited the popular social networking site Facebook.
Out of all the cases, the most commonly pinpointed reason was sexually inappropriate ...
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If you're a Facebook user, you're probably used to it.
The awkward status update. The information that not too long ago, you'd discover via word of mouth, perhaps whispered between friends while another was retrieving around of drinks ...
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