Well, this reads just like something out of Saw or Sliver or any other horror movie that involves innocent people being watched without their knowledge. Except it's real and it is horrifying.
Officials in the British spy program responsible for collecting and batching images from Yahoo users' webcams were shocked — SHOCKED! — to discover that people often use webcams to transmit pictures of their naughties to other denizens of cyber space. This only goes to further prove that governments are about as…
About a week ago I began deleting all photos and videos of my children from the Internet. This is proving to be no easy task. Like many parents, I’ve excitedly shared virtually every step, misstep and milestone that myself and my children have muddled our way through.
As of yesterday, Facebook Graph Search has officially opened its big, omniscient arms to every last check-in, status update, note, and comment you've ever posted throughout your entire Facebook career. Which, yes, sounds pretty terrifying, but don't worry—we're here to help you cover your tracks.
Indiana's Republican Attorney General proposed a law that would require pregnant welfare recipients' benefits to be contingent on passing a series of drug tests; if they can't pass, they can't buy food. Great idea guys — what economically disenfranchised pregnant drug addicts need is some good old fashioned…
It sounds like a great idea with no downside— a virtual coach that a person inspired to be fit (sigh, fine: "FITSPIRED PERSON") can download onto their phone for very little cost that helps them keep track of workouts and progress over time. Everyone's healthy! Everyone's happy! Everyone's organized! Except, as one…
We're all guilty of sometimes overutilizing social media. We use it to complain about friends, family, coworkers, jobs, and the many questionable characters on public transportation. We solicit advice, whine about Anne Hathaway, and share our dreams and desires. Facebook feeds can sometimes read like a damn Taylor…
Bros/MRAs/bigots/internet commenters/the population at large: We don't think "free speech" means what you think it means.
It's easy to have the best intentions with Netflix. You fill your instant queue up with gritty documentaries and high brow Oscar winners like the King's Speech. Maybe you even add a few of those French Cerebral Thrillers with a Strong Female Lead and/or Dog that they keep recommending, but, in the end, all you really…
Dear pregnant women: By the time your children can speak, they will not know what privacy is.
Around 25% of admissions officers at the country's top 500 colleges cyber-stalk applicants using websites like Facebook and Google, and more than one-third of them say they've found information that they've used against prospective students — up from 12% last year.
After Foursquare cut off access on Saturday to the charming "Girls Around Me" app that made it possible to view the location of women on a map and their publicly available Facebook data and pictures, app's Russian developer, i-Free Innovations, issued a statement defending its right to streamline predatory stalking.…
Relieved because you finally figured out how to block those blacked-out party photos your former roommate refuses to de-tag on Facebook? Think again! Employers and colleges are growing dissatisfied with your politically correct, G-rated social media presence, and they want an all-access pass to all public photos of…
At this point, we have pretty strict measures for keeping track of the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders once they've served their time. But unfortunately there's one large organization that's managed to circumvent these rules and seems to be fine with some 200 suspected child molesters living more or less…
We use our phones for most things these days—scheduling meetings, throwing birds at pigs, keeping track of everything from our grocery lists to our periods, checking Facebook, calling our mothers. So is there a limit to how far we're willing to let these little devices into our lives? As much as you love your phone,…
Your favorite/least favorite social networking site is nearing a settlement with the FTC that would require Facebook to obtain the approval of individual users before making changes that expose their profiles and activities to, well, whomever they like:
Turns out it wasn't the work of an exceptionally crafty and twisted publicist, after all. Authorities say that they've nabbed the "lone wolf" behind the unauthorized release of nude photos of Scarlett Johansson. And ScarJo's not his only victim; they think that he's behind dozens of other internet nude photo security…
Here's the problem: I hate my friends. You do too. I'm using the word "friends" in the social networking sense. Facebook and Flickr "friends." Twitter and Tumblr Followers.
The Transportation Security Administration has written itself quite the storied history, especially after they took up more "aggressive" pat-down techniques and full-body scans last fall. Hundred of disturbed flyers later and we're all still annoyed and perhaps even slightly irradiated.
Keeping your Facebook info private is getting harder and harder all the time—mostly because Facebook keeps trying to make it public. To help you out, we've created a comprehensive guide to keeping your Facebook locked down and in your control, and we're going to keep it updated whenever Facebook decides to add a new…
