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Heres an example of how a single social networking action can produce drastically different results on two different social networks.

Imagine youre scrolling through your Instagram feed and you come across a photo of your friend on the beach. Aw, she deserves a beach vacation, shes been working so hard lately! So, you double tap and like her photo on Instagram. Your like is lost in a sea of other likes.

Well, lets say you had cross-posting to Facebook turned on for all your Instagram activity. Now, all of your Facebook friends and lets face it, mostly acquaintances and even less, have a fresh, singular story in their news feeds about how you liked a photo of a tanned, buxom woman in a bikini.

Awkward? No, and yes, depending on the network involved.

This scenario, while common Im sure over the past couple of years, will never happen again. Instagrams new app update kills this link between Instagram activity and automatically sharing to Facebook.

Updated Facebook share settings: Continue sharing your Instagram photos and videos on Facebook. But Instagram likes and activity will no longer be shared on Facebook, say the latest app update notes.

So, your Facebook friends will no longer get the news that you just followed CaliHOTbutts69 on Instagram.

But youll still be able to share your Instagram photos directly to Facebook, if youre so inclined.

At first glance, it appears that Facebook (who owns Instagram) is doing something odd by removing a layer of seamless sharing, which is basically free (cross) promotion. But lets face itnobody really liked their likes and other random Instagram activity being directly ported to Facebook. Its a dumb feature. Now, Instagram users are free to like as many photos as they please without the fear of looking like a weirdo stalker on Facebook. Sure, you couldve turned off this feature manually, but judging by my Facebook feed, there were more than a few Instagram users who had no idea that their totally appropriate Instagram likes were popping up on the much less-appropriate Facebook news feed.

Image via Jen Selter, Instagram

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Instagram Likes Will No Longer Be (Embarrassingly) Shared to Facebook

A Moorpark man was indicted this week for allegedly using social networking websites to create fake profiles to allegedly trick, threaten and extort teens in Ventura County and other areas.

Jeremy Brendan Sears, 23, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on 18 felony counts, including of eight counts of producing child pornography, four counts of distributing child porn, five counts of receiving child porn and one count of possessing child porn.

According to a 26-page grand jury indictment, Sears allegedly engaged in the activities in his Moorpark home on his computer. The Ventura Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Task Force made up of agents and officers with the FBI and Ventura County Sheriffs Office arrested Sears on April 30. Sears is scheduled to appear at the United States District Court in Los Angeles for his arraignment on May 20.

Child pornography charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison and a statutory maximum penalty of 30 years, U.S. Attorneys Office officials said.

Sears allegedly used social networking websites popular with teens, and targeted fans of musical acts such as Justin Bieber and One Direction, according to the indictment. It added that he made fake profiles under the names such as Tommy Wiseau, Louis Tompkins, Rachel Lily and Sammi Summers to trick teens into believing the profiles were genuine and belonged to a teenager roughly the same age and of the opposite sex.

The indictment filed this week involves three victims with alleged incidents occurring around December 2012 to August 15, 2013.

According to a 110-page complaint filed on April 29, Sears allegedly harassed teens and children as young as 12 years old by trolling online forums such as Facebook, Meetme.com and other social networking sites and hijacked teens accounts by gaining administrative control over the minors personal pages.

Sears allegedly befriended minors and convinced them they were in a romantic online relationship with Sears fake profile, the indictment added. Sears allegedly asked the minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct and transmit pictures and/or video.

To aid in this activity, defendant Sears kept on his own computer and electronic storage devices a collection of nude and sexually explicit photographs and videos of apparently teenage girls, according to the indictment.

Sears also allegedly had the assistance of members from an online group known as the Bieber Trolling and Hijacking Company or The Confederacy, who aided in harassing minors by posting obscene accusations on revenge porn websites.

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Seize the Rojo
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The consequences of eliminating Fourth Amendment protections for all international communication with foreigners

Reuters

The U.S. government concedes that it needs a warrant to eavesdrop on phone calls between Americans, or to read the body of their emails to one another. Everyone agrees that these communications are protected by the Fourth Amendment. But the government also argues that Fourth Amendment protections don't apply when an American calls or writes to a foreigner in another country.

Let's say, for example, that the head of the NAACP writes an email to a veteran of the South African civil-rights struggle asking for advice about an anti-racism campaign; or that Hillary Clinton fields a call from a friend in Australia whose daughter was raped; or that Jeb Bush uses Skype to discuss with David Cameron whether he should seek the 2016 presidential nomination for the Republican Party. Under the Obama administration's logic, these Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to these conversations, and it is lawful and legitimate for the NSA to eavesdrop on, record, and store everything that is said.

The arguments Team Obama uses to justify these conclusions are sweeping and worrisome, as the ACLU's Jameel Jaffer capturesin his analysis of the relevant legal briefs:

... the government contends that Americans who make phone calls or send emails to people abroad have a diminished expectation of privacy because the people with whom they are communicatingnon-Americans abroad, that isare not protected by the Constitution. The government also argues that Americans' privacy rights are further diminished in this context because the NSA has a "paramount" interest in examining information that crosses international borders.

... the government even argues that Americans can't reasonably expect that their international communications will be private from the NSA when the intelligence services of so many other countries ... might be monitoring those communications, too. The government's argument is not simply that the NSA has broad authority to monitor Americans' international communications. The US government is arguing that the NSA's authority is unlimited in this respect. If the government is right, nothing in the Constitution bars the NSA from monitoring a phone call between a journalist in New York City and his source in London. For that matter, nothing bars the NSA from monitoring every call and email between Americans in the United States and their non-American friends, relatives, and colleagues overseas.

All I'd add is that the Obama administration's encroachments on the Fourth Amendment disparately affect naturalized citizens of the United States, almost all of whom still have friends or family members living in their countries of origin. When I call my parents, email my sister, or text my best friend, my private communications are theoretically protected by the Bill of Rights. In contrast, immigrants contacting loved ones often do so with the expectation that every word they say or write can be legally recorded and stored forever on a server somewhere.

Xenophobia is one factor driving this double-standard. It does real harm to immigrants whose speech is chilled, as is clear to anyone who has made an effort to speak with them.

Yet there has been little backlash against the Obama administration for affording zero constitutional protections to Americans engaged in speech with foreigners, and little sympathy for the innocent Americans, many of them immigrants, who are hurt by the approach Obama and many in Congress endorse.

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