SnapChat is the latest tech company to be sued under a biometric privacy law in the state of Illinois. Two Illinois residents, Jose Luis Martinez and Malcom Neal, filed the lawsuit against SnapChat, claiming that the company is violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The plaintiffs claim that the Lenses feature on SnapChat records […]
Hidden GPS Finds & Catches Shoplifters
Whoever said that crime doesn’t pay couldn’t even have imagined the impact that modern day GPS tracking technology would have on potential thieves. Last Tuesday, three women from the Tampa Bay area of Florida were arrested on felony theft charges after allegedly shoplifting over $2500 in merchandies that was tagged with hidden GPS tracking devices. […]
Woman Reunites With Birth Mom On Facebook
Thanks to the social networking power of Facebook, a Minnesota woman has been reunited with her birth mother for the first time in 34 years. Everyone knows that Facebook has helped countless people reunite with old friends and find long-lost family members, but this Facebook reunion story happened in record speed. Facebook has now taken […]
Pokémon Go: A New Way To Find People
Just when you thought that people’s lives and relationships had gone completely virtual, due to the rise in popularity of social media sites, along comes a gaming app like Pokémon Go that motivates people to go outside in search of fantasy characters, all while meeting other like-minded people in the real world. Within just a […]
Woman Reunites With Birth Mother After 55 Years
Ellen Parker, 55, is an adoptee who was raised in New York by her adoptive parents. Ellen spent much of her life believing that her adopted mother and father were her biological parents. Ellen did not find out that she was adopted until after her adopted mother died in 2007. Ellen was shocked when she […]
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