The latest from Reuters: According to a survey done by Careerbuilder.com, 22 percent of potential employers check the web identities of potential new hires. That’s up from 11 percent just two years ago. And what’s more, a third of the potential employees who are checked out online are ruled unacceptable for the job they want because of [...]

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Lori Drew, the 49-year-old Missouri resident who allegedly posed as a teenage boy on MySpace in order to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier, pled not guilty on Monday to charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress. The case is before the federal court in California, where [...]

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