Employers Ask Job Seekers for Facebook Passwords

A good reason why giving out your password from your favorite social networks is a bad idea - Employers have now asking their applicants to hand over login credentials so that they can dig deep into your personal life.

This is like giving them a combination of your safe.

Facebook has condemn this, and are seeking legal action against these employers, who are doing this to access profiles that are set to private. Facebook's policy, like so many others, always forbid its users from sharing their personal login info for their own safety and security because this could cause their account to be compromised.

So if you're looking to get into the workforce, beware that employers and job recruiters will likely type your name in a web search to get more personal info about your digital life.

Associated Press video on this:

Stepanovich: 'NSA are spying on the United States'

Russia Today America video on expansion of NSA data center in Utah, this one goes a bit deeper in what the NSA does and how they operate - such as tracking emails and phone calls.

Is your personal data in the hands of the NSA?

A new data center is being constructed in Utah, which could mean they can extract more data out of Americans, and perhaps abroad. Others think the NSA is doing this to extend its operations to the Internet and computers in the United States in the terms of tracking, spying and having businesses like Google collect info on its user base on its behalf.

Russia Today America video on the new NSA data center:

Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes

Law enforcement these days still have the ability to track your phone calls and know who you are calling, including GPS tracking, contacts, cell phone history, and keystroke recording.

Thanks to Micro Systemation, a company in Stockholm, exploited a vulnerability to run a program that will crack its passcode.

See video here - Also has more on this story

Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes - Slashdot

Egypt telling their ISPs to block out Internet porn

Egypt looks to ban Internet pornography - Information Policy

Are the Egyptians ready for another round of Internet censorship and restrictions? The authorities in Egypt is looking into banning Internet porn for the sake of dealing with the increase of rape and divorce cases. They're asking the ISPs over there to block inappropriate content or face penalties.

Guess Egypt and the Middle East have never heard of Internet parental control software - the kind used to block pornography from children.

Switch Off AutoComplete, says Japanese court to Google on behalf of a man

Japan Court to Google: Switch Off AutoComplete - Man complained that results ruined his life: Newser.com

Due to a man's inability in Japan to find a job, a Japanese court has told Google to turn off Autocomplete for the man's name.

When the man typed his name into Google search, the search results pointed him to crimes he did not commit.

This is a reminder perhaps that some people may have the same name, with different info about them on the web, and job recruiters use the web to find more info about you. Because of this, some are being branded for things they did not take part of.

YouTube Email Spam/Phish Alert!

For those who have a Youtube account or don't have one, you may have gotten those emails claiming to be from Youtube. In fact, they look like the original copy but what's written on the spam emails raise a red flag.

If it has the words/phrases: Youtube Administration, Illegal video warning, Your video is approved, You have a notification and so forth, it's definitely not coming from Youtube.

Youtube is working with email providers to handle the spam emails.

If you do get those fake Youtube spam emails, best bet is to mark them as spam/unsafe by your email provider.

RT’s main YouTube channel down for several hours on 3/18

From Russia Today:

RT’s main YouTube channel was suspended for about eight hours, returning online about 2 p.m. Moscow time (10:00 GMT). YouTube ascribed the temporary blackout to a “technical mistake.”

During the temporary suspension, anyone who attempted to access RT’s main YouTube channel was greeted with a startling message: “This channel has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy against spam, scans, and commercially deceptive content.”

During the temporary blackout, all of the content on our main YouTube channel was inaccessible.

RT’s YouTube account manager has confirmed it was the YouTube team's mistake, and they have since apologized for the incident.

RT’s web promotion chief Mikhail Konrad particularly stressed RT has not violated YouTube’s terms of service in any way, shape or form.

“There have been no copyright or community guideline violations on our part which could result in this kind of measures,” he said.

RT is the most popular news broadcaster present on YouTube, having racked up about 700 million views and 275 thousand subscribers since the channel’s inception.

RT has a long-running relationship with YouTube and Google, and its channels are part of YouTube's Premium Partnership program. This is the first such incident in the history of our close partnership.

RT’s main YouTube channel down for several hours — RT:

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ACTA in UK: 10 years in jail for a download?

Remember RnBxclusive got shut down by the UK's SOCA weeks ago and posted a warning to the site's users about downloading materials off the site? Russia Today finally did a report on it here: