So here we have the story of a Canadian woman whose insurance company used photos gleaned from her Facebook page to attack her claims of depression.

Regardless of whether you think she was or wasn’t really depressed, it’s an interesting reminder…

Not having children, this isn’t something I spend a lot time worrying about. But there was a story in the New York Times this weekend looking at the sensitive subject of posting photos of kids online. Specifically, does that make them…

Friend of mine from New Jersey was in town this weekend to see a Rams game with me. (Really, you’d think I could have come up with something a little more entertaining.) We started talking about how much his wife…

Ars Technica has posted a rather informative guide to help Facebook users navigate the site’s sometimes less-than-intuitive privacy menus.

The guide offers a range of helpful tips (illustrated by screen shots) that will show you how to make yourself unsearchable, how to…

If you have the slightest interest in micro-blogging site Twitter, you might want to spend a bit of time over at TechCrunch.

An alleged hacker sent the Web site several hundred documents earlier this week, claiming they had been pilfered from…

This sort of boggles the mind, but apparently there are people out there - quite a few of them - who actually respond to spam emails. You know the email I’m talking about - the stuff that promises money for…

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa’s lawsuit against Twitter has come to an end, according to the Associated Press.

La Russa filed his lawsuit in May against the micro blogging site, complaining about an impostor posting rather vicious comments. Apparently, La Russa quietly…

We’ve all seen them. Quizzes that promise to tell you how smart you are, whether you have a dirty mind or which Star Wars character you’d be (Luke Skywalker, in my case).

If you’ve spent much time with these things, you…

Clearly there are those out there who feel like Google’s Street View program is an excellent tool for invading the world’s privacy.

Now comes a movement in the United Kingdom to do away with the controversial mapping program that offers a ground-level…

No big surprise to see Facebook in a position where it has to change an unpopular feature or policy. This is, after all, the company that brought us the widely criticized Beacon.

Last night, the company announced to its 175 million…