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Tag Archives: Social networks
Koppie Koppie sells photos of your kids to prove you shouldn’t post them online
Two “privacy advocates” running an online store that sells mugs printed with pictures of children are intentionally stirring up controversy by grabbing photos from Flickr. The duo behind Koppie Koppie say it’s perfectly legal, but they hope you get mad about it anyway.
Not just celebrity nude photos, Reddit bans all “involuntary porn”
Reddit blew it with The Fappening, but a new privacy policy enables even us nobodies to request image removal.
LinkedIn settles class action suit over 2012 unsalted password leak
LinkedIn is privately settling the 2012 unsalted password leak. Were you one of the 800,000 affected users? Here’s what you need to know. 
Snapchat tells teens: Keep your clothes on!
Somebody should have told the kids whose racy snap went viral: Snapchat’s got a new Safety Center that nixes nudity and sex, at least for minors. 
YouTube to launch ad free subscription and a kid safe app
YouTube’s stripping comments from its upcoming Kids app and adverts from its upcoming paid subscription model. 
How one man could have deleted every photo on Facebook
Facebook is probably the biggest collection of photographs ever assembled so it would be pretty bad if one man could delete every last one of them with his phone. Thankfully that’s what Laxman Muthiyah thought too.
3 questions you should be asking on Safer Internet Day
Keeping safe online is a journey, not a destination. So, instead of telling you what to do on Safer Internet Day, we’re going to arm you with 3 simple questions you can ask yourself whenever you want to try something new…
Facebook to fill with (more!) kittens in Wickr’s message-hiding scheme
Secure messaging app Wickr has launched a timed, private photo stream that lets users upload private images to Facebook, covering them with kitten images that only user-selected people can decode. 
Super Bowl XLIX – a costly spectacle amid heightened security and surveillance
The Department of Homeland Security has declared that there is not a specific, credible threat against the Super Bowl this year, but that’s not stopping the agency from going all out on security and surveillance.