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There are times when texting can be dangerous to your health. They don’t usually add “and your liberty” but that was the case for a pair of North Carolina teens. Police in Terrell, NC, had been called to a series of break-ins at businesses, then went to the apartment of a 16-year-old suspect, who promptly fled, outrunning officers. However, Mayor Coy Reid told local paper the Hickory Daily Record, “when we lost… Read More

Residents of New Jersey may now have among the best legal protection of their online privacy in the United States after a recent ruling of the state’s Supreme Court. In State of New Jersey v. Shirley Reid, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have the same duty to protect subscriber privacy records as banks or phone companies, and cannot turn over records without a proper subpoena. “Because… Read More