A convicted sex offender who is appealing his conviction objected to the word "rape" coming up in a search of his name. The French court said he's…

Is a Facebook Phone in the works? The company denied it over the weekend, but turns out this all might depend on what the definition of is is….

So I noticed this last night when I was Facebook friended by one of my kids' friends. He's a nice kid but I didn't want to have that kind of…

Google has fired engineer David Barksdale for accessing private information from users' Google Voice, Gmail, and instant messaging accounts. The…

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A New York Times article got plenty of buzz in tech circles over the weekend. It's about how the Russian government is using the construct of the…

The scuzzier-looking the site, the more users may reveal about themselves. That's the finding of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. They…

By Steve Henn…

Yesterday, body scan images were in the news thanks to a handful of U.S. Senators who want to know why 35,000 images taken of people walking into a…

Imagine a world in which it's illegal for an employer to get info about a job applicant on Facebook.  That's the world Germany might live in.  On…