In the UK, several women have come forward in a lawsuit as having been tricked into relationships by duplicitous undercover cops, who then used the women’s social justice connections to spy on left-wing communities. Now one of these women, Helen Steel, has tracked down and confronted John Dines, the cop who “deceived…
According to the New York Times, one fallout of the Ashley Madison leak is that some online daters are now hiring private investigators to look into the marital status of their online prospects. That’s bleak, guys.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood—a children's privacy advocacy group—released a petition today calling for Mattel to cease production of Hello Barbie, an "interactive" doll created in the hopes of reviving the toymaker's stumbling brand.
It's one of those creepy stories you're hearing about more and more often: A man advertises rooms for young women and then spies on them while they're performing intimate acts. And then he shares it on social media. Because people are the same all over: Awful.
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…
A controversial new relationship app has línguas wagging all over Brazil: the "Boyfriend Tracker" has been removed from Google Play after public outcry over invasion of privacy. The app is designed for suspicious creeps who want to track their marauding boyfriends' penis movements (presumably it works equally well on…
Meeting people sucks. Maybe it would just be easier if the government did it for us. Before you dismiss my proposal as another big Nanny State bleeding heart poopy pants liberal Obamabot fantasy, consider what's happening in South Korea, where the lowest fertility rate among industrialized countries (1.15) has…
Paranoid tech nerds, rejoice: new tracking gadgets enable you to track whomever you want in a myriad of ways. Want to know where your wife is at 2 P.M. on a Wednesday? Want to be able to see your teenager's specific location on an online map? Want to receive a text alert if your husband leaves his office before a…
So. A new online dating survey of 2,000 lonesome souls found out some pretty salient information, which is that there are quite a few Americans who apparently think that it's fine to sift through a significant other's emails, texts and browsing history. More than a third of the survey's respondents said that they'd be…
IKEA seems so friendly and efficient and non-threatening—unless you consider taking over the décor of houses worldwide to be aesthetically threatening—but it seems there might be a darker side to everyone's go-to furniture retailer. The Swedish company is being investigated in France for hiring private detectives to…
Thirty percent of teens and young adults have had their email, Facebook, or other online accounts hacked into or spied on. But many think of the practice as harmless.
As part of Cyber Security Awareness month (duh), the NSA has created the CryptoKids cartoon characters—they love computer surveillance and working with secret codes! But hey, at least there's a girl engineer.
British spies during WWI apparently discovered that semen makes great invisible ink. Spy chief Mansfield Cumming (yes) was "delighted" by the discovery, but the spy who discovered the spooge-ink had to leave "after becoming the butt of jokes."
We're not sure what's weirder — that sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman is putting inspiring quotes on her Facebook page while being debriefed by the Russian government, or that so many people are watching.
When alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman's Facebook photos broke, she went from threat to national security to sexy "bombshell." If she plays her cards right, she can ride her "femme fatale" image right to the bank.
When spies seduce you to learn your secrets, it's called a "honey trap", and history's rife with examples. My favorite: "Romeo spies" assigned to "seek out powerful, unmarried women, romance them, and squeeze from them all their secrets." [FP]
As surveillance technology becomes more affordable and readily available, it's increasingly easy for the stalker-on-the-street to monitor your every movement with his own spy kit!
If you've never hung out with the IT professionals in your office, then this may come as news to you: They're pretty much all reading your shit. You probably even signed away your right to complain about in on your first day in the stack of papers they had you sign as part of the hiring process. I worked at a job…
