SF News Notorious Google Glass User Has A History Of Recording Her Neighbors Infamous Google Glass Explorer/bar assault accuser Sarah Slocum is back in the news today after the Los Angeles Times reported that she admitted two years ago to recording a conversation between her
SF News Facebook Looks To Monetize Teenagers' Posts By Easing Privacy Rules Barely a week after we learned that Google Plus is going to start making us opt out of having our thoughts and personal reviews used by corporations in "social ads," Facebook has turned
SF News Facebook Security Bug Caused Private Phone Numbers and Emails to Be Public for About a Year Well, great. Not only has the NSA been watching our every ill-advised tagged photo on Facebook, but apparently the site itself was giving away our contact information to any number of people for
SF News People Are Already Banning Google Glass The cyborg-ification of the human race at the hands of Google is nearly upon us via Google Glass, and lawmakers, cities, casinos, and at least one Seattle dive bar aren't having it. Do
SF News Twitter Hacked, 250,000 Passwords Reset An anonymous group of hackers hit Twitter today and accessed an estimated 250,000 accounts. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,
SF News TSA Removing Some Whole Body Scanners From Bay Area Airports [Updated] Amid concerns from airline passengers of allowing TSA workers to see what they look like naked, the agency has finally relented and will remove the controversial full-body scanner machines. The government had previously
SF News 6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Stolen, Posted Online Oh dear. For those of you who use LinkedIn (side note: please explain your LinkedIn love in the comments), they've just sent word that some of your passwords have been compromised. It seems
SF News ACLU Doesn't Like Siri's Loose Lips Siri — the iPhone 4S's personal-assistant feature that lets you use your voice to send messages, make calls, set reminders, and ask filthy questions — has come under fire from the American Civil Liberties Union
SF News Frenchman, Caught Peeing In Garden By Street View, Sues Google A perturbed frenchman, caught peeing in his garden by Google's popular Street View feature, is suing the company for humiliation and invasion of privacy. The photo, posted online, has reportedly made him the
SF News Sergey Brin, Jack Dorsey Sign Open Letter Blasting SOPA The chilling Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), drafted by Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, would have catastrophic affects on how you use the web and who (namely the U.S. government) controls
SF News 15,500 Northern California Kaiser Medical Records Stolen by Amy Crocker Medical records for around 15,500 Northern California Kaiser patients - 9,000 from the Bay Area - were compromised after an external drive was stolen from a Kaiser employee’
SF News Facebook Bans Valleywag's Guide to Restoring Your Facebook Privacy? Ever since Facebook altered its privacy settings in a ploy to get more traffic, users have been confused as to how re-privatize their profiles. So, Valleywag came up with this handy guide to
SF News Yahoo! (Allegedly) Profiting From Compromising Your Privacy Despite efforts to get it removed from the internet, Yahoo!'s 2006 "Law Enforcement Investigators Guide" details the various fees that government and police officers would need to pay in order to obtain
SF News Google to Reshoot Japan's 'Street View' After receiving numerous complaints in Japan, "where personal privacy is highly valued," according to SF Business Times, Google will reshoot the country's street scenes. It seems that some of the shots in Japan,
misc F&@! You, Too Oh, this is rich. Flickr photog extraordinaire The Inadvertent Gardener snapped this shot. While taking a shot of a rain-soaked BART train, she inadvertently (heh) captured an angry man's middle finger. She explains
SF News Prop. 8 Donor Names Remain Public, Rules Judge U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr. ruled in favor of keeping proposition 8 donor info public. Anti-gay marriage ilk tried to get a preliminary injunction to hide the identities of those who
misc Show Us Your Live Cams, Bay Area! We know of Bluoz's feed at Sixth and Stevenson streets, as well as a few terminally boring ones pointing at the bridges and stuff, but we want more. Much more. Remember, your right
