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  • March 2008

    • Chat Rooms Return—in 3-D

      New York Times  |  Mar 31, 08 11:11 AM CDT

      Chat Rooms Return—in 3-D

      (Newser) - A group of Silicon Valley startups is looking to bring the "social" back into social-networking and other popular websites, the New York Times reports. Vivaty is developing 3-D virtual chat rooms users can embed in web pages—including social-networking profiles—and will begin Facebook testing this week. And Meebo’s 2-D chat rooms, launched last year, have proliferated fast. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • Silicon Valley  • startup  • chat room  • Meebo

    • After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy

      PC World  |  Mar 19, 08 1:18 PM CDT

      After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy

      (Newser) - Facebook is launching a series of new privacy features today, allowing users to better pinpoint who can see which parts of their information, PC World reports. Privacy has been a watchword at Facebook ever since the PR disaster that was the Beacon advertising platform, which tracked users online. “With Beacon, we just screwed it up,” one VP admitted. More »

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      Facebook  • online privacy  • instant messaging  • Beacon  • chat room  • privacy settings

  • December 2007

    • Aussies Censor Internet

      Ars Technica  |  Dec 23, 07 11:20 PM CST

      Aussies Censor Internet

      (Newser) - Australian Internet users are getting wary about new regulations meant to keep minors away from mature content, Ars Technica reports. A stringent new ratings system to be introduced in January is meant to stop kids from accessing adult-oriented content, but critics say it will be child's play to get around, and means adults will have to surrender some privacy. More »

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      Internet  • Australia  • censorship  • Internet security  • chat room

  • June 2007

    • Police Bust Huge Global Pedophile Ring

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 19, 07 5:04 AM CDT

      Police Bust Huge Global Pedophile Ring

      (Newser) - Detectives in 36 countries have busted a global pedophile ring, rescuing 31 young children and babies who were sexually abused live on the Internet, and identifying 700 suspects. "You could go and if you were in the club, arrange a time and a place when online you could view a child being raped and brutalized in real time," said a British investigator. More »

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      Internet  • Great Britain  • rape  • child abuse  • sexual abuse  • pedophile  • chat room  • Suffolk

  • April 2007

    • Suicide Takes A Communal Turn

      Atlantic Monthly  |  Apr 23, 07 2:07 PM CDT

      Suicide Takes A Communal Turn

      (Newser) - Of all the things initiated in anonymous online chat rooms, group suicide has to be the most macabre. David Samuels explores  why hundreds of Japanese adults, previously unknown to each other, have gathered to die together in small groups, often asphyxiating themselves in cars by carefully placing charcoal burners to suck the oxygen out of the air.   More »

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      Japan  • suicide  • death  • depression  • chat room  • group suicide

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