An Indiana state bill that would stop public access to a gun permit database is working its way through the state legislature. The Indiana bill was introduced after complaints about news reports that used the public database to publicize problems with the process by which gun permits are granted. Indiana’s House Natural Resources Committee unanimously […]
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Two Cleveland city police officers were sentenced Thursday in Cleveland’s Muni Court after admitting that they used a police department database for personal use. Judge Michael Ryan sentenced Officer Samuel Feldman to four days in jail and a year probation. Feldman pleaded no contest on four counts of unauthorized use of property. Officer Andrea Viccario […]
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When a Georgia mom and her daughters logged into their Facebook accounts from mobile phones last week they were shocked to find that they had access to other people’s Facebook accounts with total access to their personal data. The mistake was the result of a network routing glitch from the family’s wireless carrier AT&T that […]
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Sign of the times – in what is being called a historical mobile fundraising campaign, US cell phone users have given over $10 million to Haitian earthquake relief efforts through text messages. The Mobile Giving Foundation is calling the outpouring of support a “mobile-giving record” for money raised for a single natural disaster. The foundation […]
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The Microgaming Network has decided to stop allowing access to the poker hand data that was available to players on the popular poker site. According to sources at Microgaming, the company has stopped players from viewing hand histories that used to be available on the site. In addition, Microgaming has stopped letting players download and […]
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