Tag: STALKER

Remember 'Breakup Notifier,' the overtly stalker-friendly Facebook app that would e-mail you whenever any of your crushes changed their relationship status? Well, it appears to have been shut down after attracting more than 3.6 million users. App creator Dan Loewenherz received a message from Facebook yesterday, confirming that the site's automated systems flagged 'Breakup Notifier' for ...

Mark Zuckerberg, the man who made it easier for everyone to get in touch with their inner voyeur, apparently has his own Facebook stalker to worry about. The Facebook CEO recently obtained a restraining order against a 31-year-old man named Pradeep Manukonda, who, according to legal papers obtained by TMZ, has been trying to "follow, surveil and contact Mr. Zuckerberg using language threatening ...

iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones have made it remarkably easy for us to share photos on sites like Facebook and Flickr. But they've made it a lot easier for cyberstalkers to track us, as well. That's because many digital photos contain a kind of encoded data known as Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF). This type of data is often used by professional photographers, since it reveals ...

During his tenure as an employee at Google, 27-year-old David Barksdale belonged to an elite group of Site Reliability Engineers, or SREs, giving him total access to some of the company's most closely guarded personal data -- including private Gmail accounts. Instead of using this access to respond to technical difficulties, however, Barksdale reportedly spent a lot of his time stalking ...

Trend story or bona fide trend? The Guardian reports that the birth parents of adopted children are flocking to Facebook to locate and contact their descendants. The article claims that, at least in the U.K., two-thirds of adopted children are removed from their birth parents due to abuse or neglect; and now "huge numbers" of adoptive parents are reporting that their children are being contacted ...

Dealing with intrusive parents and family members on social networking sites certainly poses a difficult dilemma. Faced with such a predicament, a 16-year-old in Arkansas has apparently grown so disturbed by his mother's Facebook activity that he is reportedly suing the woman. The unnamed youth lives with his maternal grandmother and believes that Facebook comments made by his mother, Denise New, ...

Twitter is the ultimate stalker tool. You can monitor what people do, where they are, and what they eat, thanks to their tendency to overshare on the micro-blogging service. And if you have a frequent updater and know their time zone of residence, you can figure out when they sleep. SleepingTime.org automates that process. Pop in a Twitter username, and SleepingTime.org looks at the person's ...

Share We may soon be able to tell all of our Facebook friends exactly where we are, but we won't, apparently, be able to see who's actually following us. It's not that the latest stream of stalker apps to hit Facebook violate some basic human right to privacy; it's that they don't actually work. As the BBC reports, Facebook watchdogs have begun "actively disabling" the rogue apps, including ...

Even the most casual of male sports fans is probably familiar with the stellar career of ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews. When she's not delivering spellbinding, up-to-the-minute reports about the finer intricacies of a coach's halftime speech, or interviewing B-list celebrities in attendance at a Yankees game, she's... well... just looking like Erin Andrews. Which, for most, is more than ...

Facebook-stalking has become so ingrained in pop culture that it's warranted mentions in TV shows, earned an entry in UrbanDictionary, and even inspired a stalker Web site. Tapping into that Net surveillance hoopla, a new Facebook app, 'Stalker Check,' allows social networkers to track their most ardent followers. The app accounts for wall posts, gifts, pokes, invites, and other activities in ...

The Internet can be a dangerous place -- especially when the shady characters you meet online follow you into real life. Back in 2008, 21-year old David Heiss became obsessed with Joanna Witton, 21, after numerous interactions with her on a site that she ran with her 20-year-old boyfriend Matthew Pyke. According to the BBC, Heiss, who lives in Limburg, Germany, tracked the couple to their ...

One of the newest weapons in the arsenal of stalkers is text messaging. Texting has two major perks for those hell-bent on harassment: the constant attachment folks have to their cell phones and the tendency of handsets to pester their owners until unopened messages are viewed. These aspects make harassment via text message particularly difficult to ignore or escape. So-called "textual ...

The Internet seems to be overrun with three types of sites: porn, technology, and celebrity gossip pages. The question on many minds -- according to an article in Forbes -- is how long can the Internet sustain an ecosystem where there are enough celebrity gossip pages for every star to have at least three or four dedicated exclusively to them. According to Internet tracker Hitwise, the number ...

We joke about how gaming, especially online first person shooters (in this case 'Halo'), are the domain of basement dwelling uber-dorks and sociopaths. Sadly every once in a while someone has to go and do something that gives the entire online gaming community a bad name. The emotionally unbalanced loon in question this time is Joshua Stetar. Stetar, 20, was arrested last week in Spokane, ...

The Internet has turned us all into a bunch of stalkers. Don't believe us? Then check out this poll from the Pew Internet research center. The same report that found that most American's hadn't Googled themselves reveals, by contrast, that a majority has Googled a friend or family member. Why Google someone else? Well, many (36 percent) said that they searched for a friend they had lost touch ...