Facebook tells employers: Hands off our users’ passwords

Facebook has now weighed in on the brewing controversy of employers requiring applicants to hand over their log-in information. Their reply: Hands off. Erin Egan, the company’s chief privacy officer, posted a note Friday on Facebook explicitly stating the company’s position:”As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just [...]

Nude body scanners arrive in Australia

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PASSENGERS at airports across Australia will be forced to undergo full-body scans or be banned from flying under new laws to be introduced into Federal Parliament this week. In a radical $28 million security overhaul, the scanners will be installed at all international airports from July and follows trials at Sydney and Melbourne in August [...]

ESPN reporter sues man for peephole videos

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has filed a new $10 million invasion of privacy lawsuit over a 2008 incident in which she was videotaped in the nude through the peephole of her Nashville hotel room. Andrews, one of the most popular reporters on the network, wants $6 million, plus costs and interest, from the West End [...]

Twitter must give user info in WikiLeaks probe

ShareThis Twitter must give user info in WikiLeaks probe 10 Nov 2011 FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A federal judge on Thursday sided with government attorneys investigating the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLeaks, and upheld a ruling that the website Twitter must turn over certain account information to prosecutors. Lawyers for three Twitter account holders, [...]