Tag: CREEPY

When you post a photo online -- especially from a phone with a built-in camera -- you're likely sharing more than the picture itself. The same is true for updates you post on Twitter. Location data is commonly included, and crafty types can do all kinds of creepy things with that information. A good example of what's possible is Creepy, a desktop app which lets you track a Flickr or Twitter ...

Don't like the thought of having Google's Street View cars photographing your home or business? You're not alone, apparently, what with at least 240,000 Germans recently voicing their desire to remain un-pictured. Good news, everyone! Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a solution for you: just move. Yes, it's the brilliant solution he offered months back when responding to the "what if I don't want ...

When you first run across SnapScouts, an Android app that offers FourSquare-style badges to kids who snap photos of their neighbors engaging in "suspicious activity," you might think it's for real. I mean, an app that employs children to create a creepy Orwellian police state where people inform on one another, a private company analyzes your photos for evidence of crimes, and privacy is basically ...

A Pennsylvania man who hadn't seen his daughter in 10 years thought it would be a good idea to look her up on Facebook and get in touch. Apparently, that's not all he had in mind, because he allegedly propositioned her for sex via messages on the social network. He clearly hadn't been tuning in to To Catch a Predator, because he showed up to meet her at an agreed-upon location, where the ...

I remember being a little girl, and watching my friends fuss about what their babies would like if they married George Michael, or Michael Jackson (so I am not only carbon-dating myself, but I'm also showing how naive my friends and I were). Oh, c'mon, I never fussed about these things. I was too busy playing with the Commodore PET. The Commodore PET could only dream of doing the things modern ...