Stolen Phone Beams Photos To Owner, Who Puts Them On Facebook : All Tech Considered. Hide captionA month after Katy McCaffrey's iPhone was stolen, photographs began streaming from the phone to her "cloud" account. She used them to create a photo album on Facebook; she called it "Stolen iPhone Adventures. " Facebook A month after Katy McCaffrey's iPhone was stolen, photographs began streaming from the phone to her "cloud" account. She used them to create a photo album on Facebook; she called it "Stolen iPhone Adventures. " There are many ways to find a lost or stolen cellphone.
That's what Katy McCaffrey says she's been seeing, after mysterious pictures began appearing in her Photo Stream one month after her iPhone was stolen. As of Tuesday evening, the album had been shared by nearly 500 users. "It was stolen on board the Disney Wonder cruiseline back in April. Many of the photos feature a cruise ship employee whose nametag reads "Nelson," enjoying casual off-duty moments. "This is Nelson. McCaffrey also writes that she has contacted Disney Cruise Line: Congressmen: Do Government Agencies Regularly Spy On Federal Employees' E-Mails? Ten Women Major Magazines Should Be Commissioning. By Alyssa Rosenberg on March 1, 2012 at 4:06 pm "Ten Women Major Magazines Should Be Commissioning" Mac McClelland is a female reporter, who is more than capable of doing the same work as her male counterparts. In keeping with our conversation on Tuesday about the pathetically small number of pieces by women published in major American magazines, I thought I’d move beyond frustration to solutions.
If it’s so hard for editors (and as many readers pointed out, who’s commissioning and editing is critically important to who gets commissioned and published) to find female writers who have the chops to get major magazine assignments, I’ll offer up 10. These are just a few of the wildly talented women out there that major magazines would benefit from publishing on a regular basis, and their subscribers would benefit from reading. And you don’t need to stick them in a lady-issues slot, either: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9. Your Digital Self Is On An Auctioning Block Every Single Day. Could Target Sell Its 'Pregnancy Prediction Score'? Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Social Media Monitoring is a Threat. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's monitoring of social media services could be a threat to civil liberties and online free speech, several lawmakers said during a hearing Thursday.
According to a report by a civil liberties group called the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, DHS paid more than $11 million to General Dynamics for a system to keep an eye on Facebook and Twitter public posts, as well as comment threads on major news websites. EPIC's report found that the system watches public social media posts for comments that "adversely reflect" on the government, and for responses to proposed government plans. EPIC tried to get information about the deal through a Freedom of Information request, but was denied. It then filed a successful lawsuit and was granted access to the specifics by DHS. During Thursday's hearing, congressmen from both sides of the asile grilled DHS about the General Dynamics deal as revealed by EPIC's lawsuit. Reps. This Week In Horrible Journalism: Jezebel's Rape Photos. Kim Kardashian Has A Google Alert On Her Name, And So Should You.
The Technologies Are New; The Privacy Fears Aren't. Did Joining LinkedIn Cost This Guy His Job? LinkedIn case adjourned until May. Why Facebook Fiercely Protects The Privacy Of One Group--Facebook Stalkers. In the classic movie The Princess Bride, the villain Vizzini states there are two classic blunders we all should avoid: Never get involved in a land war in Asia; and never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line. If we were to add a third for modern times, it might be “never trust Facebook with your privacy.”
That’s why the U.S. Federal Trade Commission just reached an agreement with Facebook that mandates Facebook protect user privacy. The agreement also subjects Facebook to audits on privacy by the Feds for the next two decades. In response, Mark Zuckerberg admitted the company had made mistakes in handling user privacy and he listed a number of actions the company will take to protect user privacy going forward. So privacy has been a problem for the fast-growing company. Who am I talking about? Now, I’d bet that pretty much everyone reading this blog who has been on Facebook has done the Facebook Stalk at least once. Why will it never be eliminated? Obama Administration Finally Gives Teeth To Federal Privacy Watchdog. Background Check Suit Challenges Constitutionality of FCRA’s Seven-Year Limit on Reporting Adverse Information.
As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog: The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to intervene to defend the constitutionality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) against a consumer reporting agency accused of violating § 605 of the FCRA. On November 23, 2010, Shamara T. King filed suit against General Information Services, Inc. GIS claims that the seven-year limitation violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Although King brought suit against the consumer reporting agency, employers should take note of the results of this case. Pennsylvania Court Orders Personal Injury Plaintiff to Turn Over Facebook Password to Defendant -- Largent v. Reed. [Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Largent v. Reed, 2009-1823 (Pa. Ct. of Common Pleas; Nov. 8, 2011) Keith and Jessica Largent were involved in an accident in 2007. They sued Jessica Rosko and Sagrario Pena alleging negligence and loss of consortium. Rosko argued that Largent’s profile was “public,” and certain posts to Largent’s Facebook account contradicted her claims of “serious and severe injury.” The court starts by noting that Pennsylvania discovery rules are broad and “the relevancy threshold is slight.” If there is no applicable privilege or statutory bar, the information must be turned over. [t]here is no confidential social networking privilege under existing Pennsylvania law. As far as a statutory bar, the Stored Communications Act was the obvious possibility.
[t]he SCA does not apply because Largent is not an entity regulated by the SCA. Largent can still access her account while Rosko is investigating. Privacy. Privacy Policy Changes Should Be Crystal Clear, Especially When Your Genetic Info Is Involved. The Department Of Homeland Security Wants All The Information It Has On You Accessible From One Place. Feds turn to dating websites and facial recognition tools to catch crooks. Army Uses Web Tool to Track Bradley Manning Mentions. If you've ever sent a tweet about Pfc.
Bradley Manning you can safely assume someone working for the Army's public affairs department took notice. Manning, who is charged with being a source for WikiLeaks in 2010, had a hearing last month. The public affairs department for the U.S. Army enlisted the help of Vocus, a public relations web tool that allows companies to monitor news and social media chatter by using keywords. An Army Vocus report obtained by POLITICO says that most of the coverage of Manning is "negative," however, "the majority of the coverage about the hearing remains balanced and factual.” The report found "1,045 social media conversations about the hearing. " The actual daily summary report is marked as "unclassified" and can be viewed by clicking here (PDF).
Manning is accused of releasing more than 700,000 classified government documents. It's no secret that public relations professionals utilize web tools to monitor what people are saying about their organizations. Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Monitor More Social Media. The top two members of a House subcommittee want the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence chief to keep a closer watch on social media traffic. According to Reuters, Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) wrote a letter to DHS Intelligence Chief Caryn Wagner pressing her to more carefully monitor users' posts on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Meehan is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee's subcommittee for intelligence and counter-terrorism, while Speier is the subcommittee's highest ranking Democrat.
A Homeland Security spokesman told Reuters that the DHS currently monitors social media only "within the clearly defined parameters articulated" in published department privacy guidelines. That suggests the DHS already monitors social media to some extent. According to Reuters, the DHS' current list of watched websites include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others. The fear of the DHS becoming too invasive isn't lost on the pair.
Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Social Media Monitoring is a Threat. FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media. The FBI is looking to develop a web application that can monitor social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, in order to gain better real-time intelligence about current or potential future security threats or situations. This plan was inadvertently revealed by the FBI's Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) in a market research request for a "Social Media Application. " The eagle-eyed New Scientist picked up on the request, which aims to "determine the capabilities of the IT industry to provide a social media application. " Government agencies like the FBI are usually reluctant to openly discuss how social networks are used as an intelligence tool. In the Request for Information document, the FBI lays out the requirements for the application that it is seeking to build.
In the background portion of the document, the SIOC writes: We've embedded the six-page document below, but here are some of the highlights: Monitoring social media activity isn't limited to the FBI. FBI Searches Social Media For Insider Trading. The FBI launched Perfect Hedge Investigations, an effort to root out insider trading that includes monitoring of social networks.
The emphasis on social media and online communications platforms like Skype accents how complex law enforcement is becoming in the connected era: a simple phone tap or document subpoena is no longer enough to catch Gordon Gecko-like figures in an age where people have dozens of options for sending information to associates. And, speaking of Gecko, who famously declared "Greed...is good" in the film "Wall Street," the actor who portrayed him is now playing a role in the effort to crack down on insider traders.
The FBI is using a public service announcement where Michael Douglas urges viewers to report suspected insider trading. In January, the FBI put out a request for proposals to firms that could develop a system to monitor social networks as a way of predicting and analyzing crime. Photo courtesy of s_bukley / Shutterstock.com. What Words Are Homeland Security Looking for When It Cyberstalks You On Social Media? What do the terms "dirty bomb" and "pork" and "gas" have in common? They're all on a list of words that raise red flags with the government when you use them in a tweet or a Facebook status update.
Hubze has released the complete list of terms the Department of Homeland Security is looking for when it monitors your social media activity. So if you tweet that you're "brute forcing my way onto a crowded Metro subway because the last train got canceled" (words in italics are on the list), you may find yourself on a list of people who used words that Homeland Security calls "Items of Interest," or IOIs.
The list was only released after a long round of legislative posturing. The monitoring is being done at an expense to taxpayers of about $11 million and extends beyond social networks to comments left on articles and Websites, including Huffington Post and the New York Times, according to Hubze. Internet_Cafe.