A medic who was accused of harassing his woman patient, sister of two-time Oscar winner, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy was sacked by Aga Khan University Hospital on Friday. The medic allegedly sent Facebook friend request to his patient after she saw him for a checkup which was branded harassment by Chinoy in social media posts. Read…
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Just because you CAN, it doesn’t mean you SHOULD…
How many posts have I posted by now about government over-reach on surveillance and the need to vigorously defend our right to privacy? A lot, right? And I realize that I am really only pseudoanonymous, but I think I’ve made it perfectly clear to most parties that I do not cheerfully tolerate people invading my…
Government Drops Its Demand For Data On 6,000 Facebook Users
Tim Cushing reports: It’s amazing what effect a little public scrutiny has on government overreach. In the wake of inauguration day protests, the DOJ started fishing for information from internet service providers. First, it wanted info on all 1.2 million visitors of a protest website hosted by DreamHost. After a few months of bad publicity…
How Facebook Outs Sex Workers
Perhaps someone at Gizmodo thought this would be a great attention-getter of a headline. And maybe they’re right as far as that goes, but this is not about Facebook outing sex workers. It’s about Facebook being able to make connections – and expose connections – that perhaps you do not want made or exposed. Kashmir…