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Woman sues employer for firing her after she disabled 24×7 monitoring app
Having her location monitored was OK while she was clocked in, she said. But she uninstalled it when she found it was spying even when she had quit the app. 
Peeing robot spoils the fun as Google temporarily unplugs map-editing tool
Map Maker’s offline until Google sets up moderation that will quash what it says is escalating map vandalism. Happy now, maker of weak-bladdered Android image?
Cane uses facial recognition to steer the blind to friends and family
Students at Birmingham City University in England have created a cane that recognises familiar faces and vibrates to let its blind owner know that they’re near people they know.
Fuskers busted for allegedly stealing photos from Photobucket
Two US men allegedly sold an application called “Photofucket” to clients who wanted to plunder Photobucket users’ private content.
Russia and China sign cyber security pact, vow not to hack each other
Moscow and Beijing will share manpower, technical resources and information to thwart online attacks.
Lenovo uses System Update to patch serious System Update security hole
Responsible disclosure and an exploitable hole closed neatly through the exploitable process itself. Result! (But make sure you’ve patched.)
“Creep” shamed on Facebook was actually man taking selfie with Darth Vader
She mistakenly thought he was a “creep” snapping photos of her kids. By the time the post was shared 20K times, he’d received death threats and is now considering legal options. 
Game hacker stripped, shamed and given in-game death sentence
Guild Wars 2 user DarkSide, who had spent weeks committing hacking workarounds such as teleporting and dominating player-on-player combat, was forced to leap to his virtual death from a high bridge.
Surely not the “Virus DESTROYS Computer” story again? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Our weekly fun-but-serious one-minute security video. Malware hype, FTC action and some ancient history (well, the LOVE BUG)… enjoy.