A complaint set to be heard this week by the National Labor Relations Board illustrates the legal risks faced by companies for mistakes relating to social media.
A new state lawmaker in Missouri has reportedly been trumpeted to the world as a friend of lobbyists who loves the “awesome” freebies her job provides.
Saying that defendant Matthew Riskin Bean and others need to understand that cyberbullying is a crime, a federal judge in Philadelphia yesterday sentenced the 20-year-old New Jersey man to a…
Hackers used a so-called 3G account slurper script to hack into AT&T servers last June and steal passwords and other information for some 120,000 iPad users, federal authorities contend.
Two teenage girls in Florida apparently may have thought it would be an amusing prank when they allegedly pasted a high school classmate’s head atop a nude photo of an…
A federal appeals court panel in San Francisco today grilled both sides in a battle between Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and upscale identical twins who claim he stole the idea…
The U.S. Justice Department has obtained a court order requiring Twitter to turn over account information about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Army intelligence specialist suspected of leaking documents…
An avowed neo-Nazi who posted the photo, name, home address and phone number of a juror who helped convict self-proclaimed white supremacist Matthew Hale in 2004 of soliciting the murder…
A social media expert is expected to testify against Courtney Love in a defamation suit that claims the rocker’s Twitter rants damaged the reputation of a…
An English-language magazine published on the Internet by al-Qaida allegedly provided encouragement and bomb-making instructions that helped inspire nine men arrested on terrorism charges in the United Kingdom last week.
A Michigan man is facing a felony trial for admittedly reading his wife’s e-mail in an effort to determine whether his suspicion that she might be having an affair was…
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