Privacy Issues Continue For FaceBook

Published on October 20, 2010 by Technology Slice

Facebook has recently acknowledged that some of its more popular apps, like Farmville and Mafia Wars is in fact, selling user data to outside parties and in direct violation of Facebook privacy policies. After a report by the Wall Street Journal Sunday, October 17, 2010, about a breach of privacy on the popular social networking [...]

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Abbott’s Secret Mortgage

Published on June 23, 2010 by Technology Slice

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott took out a new $710,000 mortgage on his family home shortly after going into Opposition, partly to help fund his family expenses after losing his ministerial salary. But in what appears to be a breach of the parliamentary rules covering MPs’ pecuniary interests, he failed to declare the loans to Parliament [...]

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Man Ejected From Flight For Being Overweight

Published on June 22, 2010 by Technology Slice

A 203kg man who says he was thrown off a flight for being too fat has missed the chance to say goodbye to his dying aunt. Sandy Russell, from Wolverhampton in England, said a stewardess told him to leave the Air Transat plane from London Gatwick to Toronto because he could not fit in his [...]

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Google grabs personal info off of Wi-Fi networks (AP)

Published on May 15, 2010 by Technology Slice

AP – Google Inc. has been vacuuming up fragments of people’s online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks for the past four years, a breach of Web etiquette likely to raise more privacy worries about the Internet search leader.

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Child Killer Back in Jail

Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice

Child Killer Back in Jail – JON Venables, one of the killers of British toddler James Bulger, has been returned to prison after breaching the terms of his release. Venables, 27, and his friend, Robert Thompson, abducted and murdered two-year-old James on February 13, 1993. The pair were aged 10 at the time of the [...]

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