Tag: ABUSE

A 15-year-old boy in Minnesota recently rescued his mother from her abusive boyfriend, not with a call to 911, but with a timely Facebook post. According to a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court, 33-year-old Kelly Heinl went out with some of her friends on Thursday night, but was soon tracked down by her boyfriend, 31-year-old Reggie LeAndrew Hart. Hart allegedly forced her ...

Your mom may be a compulsive Facebooker, but does that necessarily make her a spammer? According to Facebook's security system, it does. When the social network launched its new Groups feature a few weeks ago, many mothers, like Lucy Berry of Kansas, began using the tool to share parenting tips and stories between themselves. But because some of them posted so incessantly, Facebook ...

Yesterday, Wikileaks published its long awaited 'Iraq War Logs,' a collection of nearly 400,000 classified military documents covering the controversial war in Iraq. According to the Guardian, the logs consist of verified first-hand accounts from coalition soldiers on the ground, and give a chilling "glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to ...

When will people learn what is and isn't appropriate to post on Facebook? Judging by the news we see on a daily basis, probably never. According to the Omaha World-Herald, three Nebraska state prison guards have been suspended this week after posting comments on Facebook about beating up an inmate. Caleb Bartels posted on his wall on February 8th: "When you work in a prison a good day is ...

Tools originally developed to filter out copyrighted content on YouTube have been adapted by intrepid Google employees to track sexual predators through pattern recognition. Designed to pick out pirated movies, the software can identify complex or modified patterns such as calendars or T-shirt logos in images and videos, which can help authorities locate images and videos that could be considered ...

According to its 2006 numbers, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is reporting a 34-percent increase in online child abuse complaints since 2005. Though some of the increase is due in part to greater awareness of the IWF itself, the report also points to newer methods being employed by illegal sites for avoiding detection or legal action. One such method involves cutting up pornographic images ...