Web-monitoring software reads kids’ private messages and sells data to advertisers

Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats

Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.

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Businesses looking for more Facebook friends can get them for a price from Australian marketer

Marketing company sells clients Facebook friends

SAN FRANCISCO — On Facebook, most people make friends the old-fashioned way — by sending a request to be added to someone's posse of pals. Now, an Australian marketing company hopes to save you time and energy by simply buying you a few thousand buddies.

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ESPN bans NY Post reporters from its shows after paper publishes images from Andrews video

ESPN bans NY Post reporters over Andrews video

HARTFORD, Conn. — ESPN banned staffers from the New York Post from appearing on any of its programming on Wednesday after the newspaper published photos this week taken from a video showing sideline reporter Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room.

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Key Internet oversight agency hires former US cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom as new CEO

ICANN hires former cybersecurity chief as new CEO

The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive.

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Where-were-you moment of the digital age: News of Jackson death broke online

News of Jackson's death first spread online

NEW YORK — It was a where-were-you moment in a digital age. Michael Jackson's death was not learned from a fatherly TV news anchor. Instead, the news first spread online.

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