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Funny story: Siri Given a Hefty Fine For Eavesdropping and Illegally Listening In On Personal Conversations

Siri Given a Hefty Fine For Eavesdropping and Illegally Listening In On Personal Conversations

NEW YORK CITY – (Satire News) – A Federal judge has ruled that Siri has been violating the privacy rights of private citizens and now, her owners (Apple Inc.) will have to pay a fine. Judge Fawn Gettasax, 57, stated that Siri has stepped way past…

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Funny story: Daily Mail writer now asking for privacy

Daily Mail writer now asking for privacy

Daily Mail writer Valerie Worthington is now asking for privacy, after a bit of a do in her private life. Mrs Worthington, who has famously put her daughter on the stage, said 'At this very painful time, I ask for privacy, so that I can make my pe…

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Funny story: Insightful Therapist Probes Client's Childhood Memories for Source of Her Neurotic Aversion to Government Surveillance

Insightful Therapist Probes Client's Childhood Memories for Source of Her Neurotic Aversion to Government Surveillance

“Did you have a major privacy violation as a child or teenager, like maybe someone sneaking into your room and reading your diary?” asked therapist Christina Carter, probing for the source of her client’s expressed reservations about the prospect of...

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Funny story: Words to the Wise: Top Ten Lockdown-Era Definitions You Need to Know NOW!

Words to the Wise: Top Ten Lockdown-Era Definitions You Need to Know NOW!

Granted, humans may have stopped evolving, but not language! Ever fluid, in this, the lockdown era, words and phrases have continued to morph and metastasize in ways that would have been nearly impossible to predict only months ago. Don’t be left...

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Funny story: Peeping Tom Thrives as Millions Are Ordered to Shelter in Place

Peeping Tom Thrives as Millions Are Ordered to Shelter in Place

As millions throughout the country are ordered to hunker down at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one group is benefiting greatly from the widespread shelter-in-place advisories: peeping Toms. "Not to sound creepy, but they're sitting ducks," sa...

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Funny story: Introvert Humiliatingly Reveals Personal Detail during Casual Conversation with Coworker

Introvert Humiliatingly Reveals Personal Detail during Casual Conversation with Coworker

In a classic but humiliating case of too much information, introvert Kelly Hayden of New York City inadvertently revealed a personal detail in the course of a casual conversation with a coworker. "He was talking about belonging to the Y," explaine...

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Funny story: Facebook Knows What You Did Last Summer

Facebook Knows What You Did Last Summer

There was troubling news for the 'Social Media Generation' today, when it was revealed that, not only does Facebook know your politics, sexual preferences, favorite foods, favorite music, books, movies and sports teams, but it is also very well aware...

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Funny story: Google Servers Hacked, Internet Activity of Millions Made Public

Google Servers Hacked, Internet Activity of Millions Made Public

This week saw one of the largest hacks in the history of the Internet, and the world is still coming to terms with the leaked information. The target was Google and its massive server system, which apparently houses much more personal information...

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Funny story: Facebook Privacy Update Backfires on users

Facebook Privacy Update Backfires on users

In a world in which most online users are quick to copy and paste any post without verification or research the more tech savy hackers and online "Hacktavists" have once again used the "sheeple" of the internet to spread their message thru malware. T...

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Funny story: Footage from colonoscopies to be added to Google Street View

Footage from colonoscopies to be added to Google Street View

Google today announced that it has made a deal with health providers to add colonoscopies to Street View and give users the ability to explore the intestines of anyone on the planet. Google CEO Larry Page described it as the 'logical next step' af...

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Funny story: Congress unveils do-it-yourself homeland security

Congress unveils do-it-yourself homeland security

Washington, DC - - With the Department of Homeland Security increasingly being used as a political football, Congress has come up with a backup plan. It's a domestic defensive strategy that relies on the American public to protect itself agai...

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Funny story: Facebook to change the default profile picture

Facebook to change the default profile picture

Following on from Facebook allowing users of the popular social networking site to indicate a gender other than the rigidly binary Male and Female, the default profile picture will now be changed. "Not all our users want to put a profile picture,"...

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Funny story: U.S. Government Agents Seize Edward Snowden's Whistle

U.S. Government Agents Seize Edward Snowden's Whistle

Edward Snowden may be holed up in Russia, but U.S. government officials say America will nevertheless be safe from future whistle-blowing by the American-born traitor because they've managed to seize Snowden's thus far elusive whistle. According t...

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Funny story: Amazon CEO is Laughing All the Way to the Headlines

Amazon CEO is Laughing All the Way to the Headlines

Jeffrey Bezos is giggling his head off, laughing all the way to the headlines. First the Amazon CO got sensational global coverage of his absurd yet adorable (yet rather creepy) plan to have millions of packages delivered "right to your porch" by dro...

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Funny story: Facebook Adjusted the Settings Again!

Facebook Adjusted the Settings Again!

Facebook is at it again! Even with the highest restrictions put in place, Facebook has adjusted one woman's settings so her boss's wife's sister from fifteen hundred miles away could read a post that the shop was going to be closed because everyone...

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Funny story: President Obama Brings Happiness To A Child

President Obama Brings Happiness To A Child

US President, Barack Obama, today brought a delighted smile to the face of a ten year old English girl. 'I lost my mobile phone last month,' explained Sophie Harris from Cornwall, England. 'I was really, really upset as it had details of all my fr...

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Funny story: Secretary of Education Urges Removal of Word "Privacy" from School Dictionaries

Secretary of Education Urges Removal of Word "Privacy" from School Dictionaries

"Privacy is dead, and that's a good thing," pronounced U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in his recent address to Congress regarding the content of dictionaries currently used in federally-funded public schools. "And our dictionaries should ref...

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