Collaborate Disseminate
Shortened URLs from the likes of bit.ly, Google and Microsoft could potentially expose personal data to anyone who cares to look, security researchers have found. Continue reading Google and Microsoft’s shortened URLs make it easy to spy on people
Microsoft says that gag orders violate 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable search and its own 1st Amendment rights to tell customers about them. Continue reading Microsoft sues US government over gag orders
You can run, but you can’t hide. Particularly not if you’re being videotaped! Continue reading Facebook’s working on auto-tagging us in videos
He was found guilty of handing over login credentials for the newspaper, after which it was defaced. 
Continue reading Matthew Keys gets 2 years for helping Anonymous deface the LA Times
Its first transparency report includes regulators’ requests – requests that it says are overly broad and could jeopardize privacy. Continue reading Uber’s given US agencies data on more than 12 million users
More than a third—36%—of stalking victims are tormented via cyber methods, a study found, making phones a tool to harass and threaten. 
Continue reading We’ve got stalkers in our pockets
A mistress’s fake profile, replete with 18-month-old kid and child support demands, was meant to coax witnesses into denying an alibi. Continue reading Prosecutor suspended over fake Facebook profile used in murder prosecution
THIS is why we need adblockers! Poisoned ads have infected most of the Netherlands’ most popular sites, affecting millions of users. Continue reading Massive malvertising attack poisons 288 sites
They steal fashion images to bait-and-switch shoddy clothes on Facebook. You get what you pay for: flimsy, teensy knock-offs that smell bad. Continue reading Facebook to tackle how shady advertisers rip off users
He took the time to cover his face and put up his hood before hurling things at police, but he couldn’t resist tagging himself. Continue reading Man who tagged himself in Facebook photos of a riot jailed for 2 years