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Boston PD admits arrest for cell phone recording was a mistake

The Boston Police Department has at last concluded that two of its officers made a mistake when they arrested a Boston man for recording the arrest of another man with his cell phone....

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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 Net News No Comments

"Reverse robocall" campaign lets citizens phone-blast SOPA supporters

A Web-based civic action site is providing a way for people irate about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) to voice their opinions in a very literal way. Reverse Robocall , a site...

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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Sword fights and sex abuse: only 1% of minors send explicit nude photos

In 2008, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy said that 20 percent of teens had distributed nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves. Cue the moral panic about sexting! Certainly, examples...

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Monday, December 5th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Apple, Motorola, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile latest to be sued over Carrier IQ tracking

Apple, Motorola, and three major wireless carriers are the latest to face a class-action lawsuit over a smartphone privacy scandal, with Carrier IQ, HTC, and Samsung also facing allegations that they spy on...

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Monday, December 5th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything

The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of...

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 Net News No Comments

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