Almost three weeks after Bob Sullivan of msnbc.com's Red Tape Chronicles first broke the story of government agencies and colleges demanding inappropriate access to Facebook accounts, both the social network and a U.S. senator are calling shenanigans on this violation of privacy, which is also a potential liability problem for the inquiring institutions.
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Facebook, senator blast bosses asking for passwords
Almost three weeks after Bob Sullivan of msnbc.com's Red Tape Chronicles first broke the story of government agencies and colleges demanding inappropriate access to Facebook accounts, both the social network and a U.S. senator are calling shenanigans on this violation of privacy, which is also a potential liability problem for the inquiring institutions.
Tech Check: Facebook porn, Google Music, robot ostrich
This week on Tech Check, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg discuss Facebook porn, Google Music
A major spam attack on the Facebook site caused millions of users to see porn, extreme violence and other unsavory images this week. Facebook says that the attack spread when people were tricked into pasting malicious code into their outdated Web browsers.
The site says it's now identified who was responsible, but not before lots of folks had their News Feeds rudely interrupted.
Also this week, we discuss Google Music, the web giant's entry into the digital music world that was released to the public this week.
Will the service just be a knock-off of what Apple and Amazon have been doing for years? Or will Google Music become a legitimate player in digital listening (not to mention a new tool in the Android vs. iPhone battle)?
Our Reader Comments of the Week come from John's story on an emerging technology we can all support-- a robot ostrich.
The military's research arm is working on a robot called Fast Runner that, well, looks a lot like an ostrich. Our commenters had thoughts on this (including one that called for a stern rebuttal from Stephanie).
Facebook for the Tech Fail of the Week. When not being beset by nasty images this week, Facebook was busy telling internationally known author Salman Rushdie that he's not Salman Rushdie.
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