As a follow-up to the revelation that Google fired an employee, David Barksdale, for accessing user accounts and harassing minors, Gawker.com has posed four useful questions to Google: 1) Has everyone whose privacy was violated by Barksdale been notified? 2) Why weren’t Barksdale’s actions reported to the police? 3) What specific steps is Google taking…
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ACLU-PA settles cell phone search suit against school district
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania announced today that it has settled a lawsuit filed in May alleging that the Tunkhannock Area School District (Wyoming County) illegally searched a student’s cell phone, punished her for storing semi-nude pictures of herself on the device, and then referred her case for criminal prosecution to the district…
Unabomber’s Victims Fear He Could Post Writings on the Web
David Lohr reports: It has been nearly 15 years since the arrest of Ted Kaczynski, aka the “Unabomber,” and yet his ability to terrorize the public persists. Now, survivors of his mail-bomb attacks and victims’ families are haunted by the fear that the Harvard-educated mathematician might upload 40,000 pages of his writings and other documents…
Bump.com: “Like putting a cookie on a car”
Tom Simonite reports: Next time you’re stuck in traffic, take a look at the license plates on the cars around you. To a user of bump.com–which launches today–each one is like an email address that can be used to contact the owner, whether to tell them a rear light is out or that you like their…