Don’t get Dooced!

Dooced is an internet expression meaning to lose one’s job or position because of “objectionable” posts on your website or blog.  And now, what you are doing online may be easier for your employers to find out because a website called Social Intelligence is here to help them!  According to their website,

Social Intelligence offers nearly real-time surveillance of employees’ online behavior [in which they may] criticize managers or coworkers on a social networking site, post questionable photos on a blog, or regularly update personal sites while on the clock.

So before sending something off to cyberspace just remember that it may land in your employee file. 

Invasion of Privacy Online Results in Suicide at Rutgers University

Rutgers student Tyler Clementi

Rutgers’ freshman, Tyler Clementi, takes his own life after his roommate broadcasted a private sexual encounter between him and another man on the Internet.  Fellow students, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, have been charged with invasion of privacy for broadcasting the encounter because it is illegal in NJ to create pornography without the subject’s consent.  This is also being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Woman speaks out about Her Brutal Rape after Her MySpace Pictures are used in a Bogus Craigslist Ad

Sarah, who was brutally attacked because of a bogus ad placed on Craigslist, discussed her ordeal on the Oprah Winfrey Show today.  The Craigslist ad was posted by Jebidiah James Stipe, a former boyfriend, who used her identity and created the ad using pictures- including bikini shots- that were pulled from Sarah’s MySpace page. 


The headline of the ad read “Need an aggressive man with no concern or regard for women. If interested, contact Sarah” and was intended to be used to intent of set-up the fulfillment of a rape fantasy.   


For more info see The Oprah Show website

Catfish Movie Documents a Tale of Online Deception

A New York photographer and filmmaker has an online love affair with someone who may not be what they seem.


Movie Location and Times


Full Story on 20/20 (Spoiler Alert) (Updated 10/7/10)

Photographer Offers Groupon Deal Using Stolen Photographs

A $500 photography package offered for $65 quickly sold out on Groupon generating over $76,000 in revenue.  Afterwards, the photographer was accussed of using photographs pulled from the websites of other photographers and all of the purchases from Groupon were refunded. More.

Man gets 20 years in 'sexting' case

The Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 24-year-old Jacksonville man is going to federal prison for 20 years in a "sexting" case.


The U.S. Attorneys Office said Anthony William Denham was sentenced for persuading a girl to use her cell phone to take and send to him sexually explicit photos of herself. In exchange, he gave the child prepaid minutes for her phone.


Prosecutors said Denham had contacted the girl through a social networking site and used one of the photos she sent to create a fake web page so he could impersonate a young girl online.
A jury had found Denham guilty in May of producing and receiving child pornography. He was sentenced Monday. When he gets out of prison, he'll serve probation for the rest of his life.

Go to Miami Herald article

Woman's Photos Lifted, Used on Dating Sites

A 24-year old Denver woman discovers that her photo and life details were pulled from her Facebook account and used by a 46-year old woman, who created an online identity pretending to be her.  She used this identity to send explicit messages to men she met on dating sites such as PlentyofFish.com and Sugardaddie.com.  Full Story and Video

Canadian Judge in Nude Photo Scandal Steps Aside

Judge Lori Douglas

A Canadian judge, her lawyer husband and the law firm that both previously worked for face lawsuits that allege misfeasance in public office, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.  Incorporated in the lawsuit were sexually explicit photos if the judge that were allegedly posted to the Internet without her knowledge.


Explicit Photos Included in Lawsuit


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