From CBC News: A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer’s insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook… …She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on the popular social networking site, including ones showing her having a good […]

Story From Telegraph.co.uk. An actor dressed as pop culture icon “Colonel” Harland Sanders managed to sneak his way past security and into the United Nations posing for photos, shaking hands, and even attending a meeting. Usually these sort of pranks are pulled off by political activists or artists, but this time the whole thing was […]

From Wired.com In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in […]