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Tag Archives: Social networks
Facebook tax refund scam earns Arizona woman 6 years in jail
An Arizona woman has been sent to jail for six years for masterminding a tax rebate scam which used Facebook to find and target unemployed people for identity theft.
Role players get cuddly with photos of other people’s kids
It’s disturbing to see your child’s photo in adoption role play. It’s scarier still to see the #BabyRP hashtag lumped in with sexual tags.
Someone killed hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot – can humans be trusted?
HitchBOT was on a mission to criss-cross the United States with the help of strangers, but the hitchhiking robot came up far short of its San Francisco destination, after it was destroyed in a vicious attack in Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love.
Women posed as fake brides to scam ISIS out of $3000
Even if you pull one over on the world’s most fearsome terrorist army, it’s still illegal.
How one school district is monitoring social media of students and teachers
They’re trying to keep kids safe, but nobody’s talking about who can access the data or what standards are used to capture it. 
Facebook ordered to allow pseudonyms by privacy watchdog
Good news for every Little Miss Hot Mess and Jemmaroid von Laalaa out there: a German privacy watchdog has ordered Facebook to allow users to take out accounts under pseudonyms.
Police say sorry after Facebook tit-for-tat with “keyboard warrior”
How should you respond when you’re representing an organisation on social media?
Privacy and targeting are among new video controls for Facebook Pages
Now, video uploaders can discriminate – or is it target-market? – based not only on language and location, but also on gender and age. 
If you make everybody use weaker locks, it’s burglars who benefit! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Security can be fun…here’s the latest episode of our weekly 1-minute video. Enjoy!