At first there were search engines like Google, where people could do name searches to find friends and family members online. Next came social media, where people could find and reunite with friends and family online through social networks like Facebook. However, for adoptees looking for biological parents or families with little or no family […]
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Florida is the latest state to advance a bill that would extend social media privacy protections to people in the workplace. A Florida state Senate committee just passed a bill that would restrict access to peoples’ social media accounts by employers and potential employers. If signed into law, state bill SB 186 would make it […]
As GPS devices have become smaller, less expensive and more accurate, police have come up with some creative ways to hide them in everyday objects to track people in real-time. Police are hiding small GPS devices in bundles of cash, prescription pill bottles and other objects to track and catch would-be thieves and criminal suspects. […]
Just when you thought social media couldn’t sink any lower, someone comes along and creates a “Yelp-like” review app for rating people – and hilarity ensues. There’s a new app in town called “Peeple” and, even though it hasn’t been released to the public yet, it has a lot of people peepled-off. Peeple is an […]
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In the case of SEC v. Bonan Huang et al, a federal court in Pennsylvania has ruled that forcing people to give up their smartphone passwords to investigators is a violation of their Fifth Amendment protections against self incrimination. The issue involves Securities and Exchange Commission investigators who are trying to force two insider trading suspects […]
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