Rogue group hijacks hundreds of Facebook groups for your own good

Despite well-known privacy leaks and rampant availability of sensitive personal data, Facebook remains hugely popular. Lulled into a precarious sense of security by friends locking accounts, most people feel fairly comfortable sharing information they might not otherwise like to ... continue

The EU looking to head down Orwellian black hole

Under the guise of Project Indect, a five year research program that includes: Police Service of Northern Ireland, computer scientists at York University, and fellow researchers in nine other European Union countries, The EU ... continue

11 Million Britons will need to register before being allowed near kids

Using the argument that if this new vetting and barring scheme being handled by the Independent Safeguarding Authority of the Home Office even saves one child from the hands of a pedophile it is  ... continue

Lure of technological convenience hides a nasty side

There is no denying the fact that we all love our tech toys. Apple’s iPhone continues to sell, smart phones in general grow in popularity, GPS-based apps are just handy to have. Things like ... continue

Norway: It’s nice to see a country who cares about citizen privacy

It is re-assuring in a point in time where entertainment industry trade groups, like the RIAA, are pressuring governments and ISP by either suing them or helping them write legislation that there are some ... continue

Montana city backs off of requiring Facebook passwords as job requirement

Remember a couple days ago when I passed along the news about Bozeman, Montana, requiring job applicants to had over their usernames and passwords as part of their job application? Well according to ... continue

Montana city treading some dangerous ground

I would bet that we’ve all heard more times than we care to count the old warning about being careful about what you post on the Internet because it could come back to haunt ... continue

The EFF tracks companies and their changing TOS agreements

The one document that just about everyone dreads reading, and most don’t, has to be the Terms of Service (TOS) that we have to agree to before using their services. Even when we get ... continue

Facebook possibly crossing legal line on censorship

Facebook seems to always be finding itself in the legal line of fire over the way it is doing business. The latest salvo comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) over the fact that ... continue

Police in Denton Texas will make you Twitter famous

It’s one thing to see the mugshots of famous people show up on the web but getting busted for anything in Denton Texas could see you show up on Twitter. To make it clear ... continue

How to get Google in Korea to ban you – use a fake name

Government the world round are always trying to find new ways to get control over the Internet and the people using it. In Korea there is a state law that stipulates that if you run a web ... continue

Facebook – the sleight of hand shillster

I see that Facebook it taking a lot of well deserved flack over it’s recent changes to its Terms Of Service (TOS) to the point that baby faced Zuckerberg had to come down from his ivory tower ... continue