60 percent of US parents spy on teens’ Facebook accounts: survey
To spy or not to spy on your teen on Facebook, that's the question for parents, and most seem to be okay with it. According to a new survey, 60 percent of U.S. parents of teenagers seem okay looking in their kids' social accounts without their knowledge. And moms are most likely to be the ones doing the spying.
The information comes from security software company AVG Technologies, which surveyed 4,400 parents with children ages 14 to 17 in 11 countries. American parents aren't alone in their snooping, but they seem to be more aggressive about Facebook spying. Globally, only 44 percent of all parents said they spy on their teens' Facebook accounts. Read more...
School expels student for swearing on Twitter during non-school hours
From Facebook communications to tweets, you're no doubt already aware that nothing you do online is truly private. But should you have a reasonable expectation that your superiors aren't actively spying on you? That's the question a lot of people are asking after Garrett High School in Indiana expelled a high school senior for cursing over Twitter during off-school hours.
The tweet in question dropped the F-bomb a number of times, but was otherwise non-threatening. It was posted at 2:30 a.m. — a time when the student in question was most assuredly not at school. Still, despite the evidence, the school stands by its decision to expel the student. Read more...
Analysts wary of Iran’s spy drone hacking claims
Reports that Iranian electronic warfare experts may have succeeded in intercepting and capturing a sophisticated U.S. spy drone was received with some skepticism by security analysts.
While it is certainly possible that the drone was electronically ambushed as reported, more details are needed to know what exactly might have happened to the RQ-170 Sentinel drone, they said.
Christian Science Monitor this week reported that the recent U.S. spy drone captured by Iran may have been intercepted and tricked into landing in that country by Iranian electronic warfare experts.
The story quoted an unnamed Iranian engineer as saying that Iran was able to cut off the communications links to the Lockheed-Martin-made drone and reconfigure its GPS coordinates to trick it into landing in Iran. Read more...
Technology once protected our privacy, now erodes it
In light of the erosion of privacy online, we need to be careful to protect our privacy at home, according toMichael Birnhack, law professor at Tel Aviv University, speaking at Intelligence Squared's If conference.
In direct contrast to Martin Blinder's argument in favor of personal analytics, Birnhack said: "Yes we can measure stuff, but do we want to measure all that stuff? I would argue that at least some of us would like to maintain a place where nothing is measured and nothing should be measured." Read more...
What a Mobile phone Spy Software Is
Mobile phone spy software is often a stealth system put in in someone’s mobile phone, without having his understanding, to monitor calls and messages sent to and obtained about the phone. There’s a lot of factors why consumers use spy phone software program. Particularly commonly, they wish to understand if their spouses are cheating, or they are mums and dads who wish to keep track of their teenage child’s phone activities. Employers also quite often use spy software program to maintain an eye on their workers, particularly if your telephone is company-owned and intended solely for function purposes. Using the utilization of the spy software, employers, parents and suspicious spouses get to determine messages around the mobile phone, listen in secretly to calls, and track the mobile phone user’s place making use of GPS. Read more...