Jerzy Shedlock reports: An 18-year-old Anchorage man has been charged with a felony after police say he sent hundreds of threatening text messages to a girl and posted an “intimate” video of her on social media. Holden Braund-Nuss was arrested at his South Anchorage home Thursday and charged with harassment and coercion, police said. He…
Category: Online
Illinois legislators consider bills on policing social media
Celeste Bott reports: State lawmakers are confronting what has become a common problem in the digital age: How to provide law enforcement with the tools to investigate online threats and cybercrimes while also making sure privacy and free speech are safeguarded. Lawmakers are considering a series of new bills aimed at giving police more power…
New Michigan law lets some access Facebook, email of the dead
AP reports: A new Michigan law offers ways for certain people to access the online storehouse of memories in Facebook and Google accounts after the owner dies, but the bill sponsor says it wasn’t easy to get tech companies and lawyers to agree on the rules. […] The Michigan law is based largely off of…
PogoWasRight.org files complaint with FTC concerning children’s privacy online
Earlier this week, I posed some questions to readers about tracking/monitoring your children, and the privacy of children who communicate with your child when they don’t know that you’re monitoring/seeing every private message or image. I asked you all to think about this question: So it’s okay with you if some other child’s parents are…