Court of Appeals upholds firing over GIS search for ‘blonde’

The umbrella of content deemed Not Safe For Work (NSFW) got a bit bigger this week when the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a biology teacher's termination over a Google Image Search for the word "blonde." While ... continue

Misdirected Facebook messages to be read at NYC bar

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 ... continue

How big was Facebook’s recent privacy glitch?

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 ... continue

Closeted? Your Facebook friends could out you

A very, very small scale "unpublished" study by some MIT students may indicate some larger privacy concerns. As users click around the internet, they leave a handy trail of information bits to define themselves. The MIT students suspected ... continue