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Facebook conducted secret psychology experiment on users' emotions. Sri understanding society april 2013. Friday workshop research 2. The Apprentice - pitch to john lewis, jumper has camera on front to record whilst wearing, john lewis say this is exact oppisite of what customer wants they are w. Apple says iCloud isn't to blame for hacked nude pictures. When over a hundred female celebrities saw their nude pictures and videos posted on 4chan, to be circulated on Reddit and other social media sites, many blamed security breaches in iCloud or the Find My iPhone app for allowing hackers to access the private data.

Apple says iCloud isn't to blame for hacked nude pictures

Apple has now vehemently denied these reports. The company said in the statement: "After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the internet. " Berlin Grindr art installation shut down after protests. Dries Verhoeven's controversial Berlin art installation "Wanna Play?

Berlin Grindr art installation shut down after protests

" has been scrapped just five days into its run. The Dutch artist was heavily criticised for publicly broadcasting private messages with other Grindr users – including photographs and profile names – as a comment on the dating app. One man, Parker Tilghman, described the experience with the artist as "digital rape". German avant-garde centre Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), which commissioned the piece, announced the closure of "Wanna Play? " Loss of trust with technology. 'Sex Tape' Movie 2014 Release Date, Cast & News: Jason Segel & Cameron Diaz Star in Raunchy Flick [Video] First Posted: Jul 03, 2014 11:37 AM EDT The upcoming comedy film "Sex Tape" is about a couple that experiments with methods to spice up their relationship and sex life by recording themselves and making a sex tape.

'Sex Tape' Movie 2014 Release Date, Cast & News: Jason Segel & Cameron Diaz Star in Raunchy Flick [Video]

Hackers used police spy tool to steal nude celebrity pictures — RT USA. Instagram has been banned in mainland China. Following the pro-democracy protests that have rattled the streets of Hong Kong this weekend, it appears that Instagram has been banned in mainland China in a bid to stop images of the demonstrations – especially of fights between police and protesters – from reaching Chinese netizens.

Instagram has been banned in mainland China

According to the website watchdog Blocked In China, Instagram is now banned across the entirety of the country after photos tagged #occupycentral hit social networks. Are Hong Kong protesters' iPhones being hacked? Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters are under threat from a computer virus that has the ability to spy on iOS users, Reuters reports.

Are Hong Kong protesters' iPhones being hacked?

The software is called Xsser and can track calls, teal text messages, photos and more or less anything private stored on a phone. Researchers from San Francisco-based company Lacoon Mobile Security uncovered the virus while investigating another piece of spyware that infects Android operating systems. Lacoon chief executive Michael Shaulov said that he had never seen a cyberattack on iOs as elegant or powerful as Xsser. "This is one the most interesting developments we have seen," he said. Internet creeps strike again with ‘The Snappening’ Hackers have intercepted hundreds of thousands of Snapchat images and videos and leaked them online, Business Insider reports. 4chan users are already calling the hack as “The Snappening”, in reference to the recent hack that targeted over a hundred female celebrities.

Internet creeps strike again with ‘The Snappening’

Norweigian newspaper Dagbladet says that up to 200,000 images had been stolen. Many of the images are of teenagers and constitute child pornography. 4chan threatens to leak Emma Watson nudes after UN speech. Over the weekend, Emma Watson lit up the internet with a pretty amazing speech to the UN about women's rights.

4chan threatens to leak Emma Watson nudes after UN speech

She called herself a feminist. She called for men to join in the fight for gender equality. She even said that feminism wasn't about hating men. All pretty reasonable stuff. How to be a woman online. Social media might stop us actually saying what we think. In news that will surprise probably no-one, American researchers have found that social media actually might be stunting our ability to say what we really think.

Social media might stop us actually saying what we think

According to the team from The Pew Research Internet Project, Twitter and Facebook have the ability to foster a "spiral of silence", which describes when an individual is reluctant to voice their opinion on the basis that it may contradict the views of their online peers. This artist plans to exhibit Jennifer Lawrence's nudes in LA. As if Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton haven't suffered enough, now an art-weasel called XVALA is planning to exhibit their private nude images as part of his No Delete show at the Cory Allen Contemporary Art (CACA) gallery in LA.

This artist plans to exhibit Jennifer Lawrence's nudes in LA

"We share our secrets with technology," XVALA said in a press release for the show. "And when we do, our privacy becomes accessible to others. " Jennifer Lawrence blasts nude photo hack as ‘sex crime’ Jennifer Lawrence has called the theft and subsequent leak of her private photographs a "sex crime", urging for the law to be changed and for websites involved in the hack (like 4chan) to be held responsible.

Jennifer Lawrence blasts nude photo hack as ‘sex crime’

"It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime,” she told Vanity Fair in her first interview addressing the hack. People looking for simple life .. technology is to much. Find the women in technology. “Where are the women?” Its been asked before and it will probably be asked again. However, the issues of women in technology are not as straightforward as the question begets. Expectations run from all sides - personal, society, business, education, economy, ask anyone and a different discussion ensues – to form a complex web that is continually unwound and wound back again. Reddit has banned 'The Fappening’ iCloud Nude Leaks: 26 Celebrities Affected In The Nude Photo Scandal. Celebrity hackers have struck again. Less than a month after the 4chan Apple iCloud nude photo leak, more nude celebrity photos hit Reddit and 4chan during the weekend.

TMZ broke the news on Saturday that Kim Kardashian became the latest victim in a series of hacked celebrity photos. Is society safe?? Kate Upton's Lawyer Responds to Nude Photo Leak, Which Also Contained Stolen Jennifer Lawrence Pics. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Kate Upton is the latest celebrity confirmed to have had private pictures stolen and posted as part of a massive leak of nude and risqué celebrity photos, which were circulated widely on social media on Sunday and have been brought to the attention of the FBI. Artist causes outrage with public broadcast of Grindr PMs.

Are your nude selfies safe on iCloud? Emma Watson nude photo leak outed as viral marketing hoax. Google could face $100m lawsuit over celebrity photo hack. Lena Dunham: Don't look at those Jennifer Lawrence nudes. By now, you and pretty much everybody else on Earth has heard about the Great Naked Celebrity Photo Leak 2014.

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