“I can send a picture where all of us are together,” says “Olivia,” before sending a porn URL. Tell kids not to click!
Tag Archives: Social networks
Younger Facebook users 4 times more likely to delete app, study shows
They also appear to be more privacy-wary, with 64% changing their settings, comparing to just a third of older users.
Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords
Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with “one-way encryption” and is “adding more security measures”.
How refusing to give police your Facebook password can lead to prison
A suspect will be jailed for 14 months for refusing to hand over his Facebook password to detectives investigating a 13-year-old’s murder.
‘Sick sadist’ admits to trolling dead people on social media
He was intoxicated while posting about high-profile tragedies involving the death of young people, adding torment to families’ grief.
Facebook: It’s too tough to find personal data in our huge warehouse
GDPR: it means give users their data when they ask for it, and Facebook’s refusal to do so has provoked an inquiry by the Irish DPC.
Tumblr outlaws creepshots and deepfake porn
The blogging site wants to go back to a simpler time, where, it says, people were a lot nicer … and didn’t glorify gore and upskirting.
Facebook helps woman track down her brother’s killer after 37 years
The murder took place long before the World Wide Web, but Facebook turned up both the killer and his sons, who had witnessed the crime.
Facebook’s rating you on how trustworthy you are
You, me, everyone is being rated on a scale between zero and one on signals such as whether we waste Facebook’s time by falsely flagging posts as being false.
Social networks to be fined for hosting terrorist content
Draft EU legislation, due out next month, will likely incorporate a one-hour takedown window for extremist content flagged by law enforcement.