Notions on the net

From Reuters via MSNBC: A study conducted at the University of New Hampshire finds online sexual predators do not, as a rule, masquerade as teenagers. It's all about the love, victims say.

In Inside Higher Ed, Barbara Fister examines the network notion of privacy:

Suspicion of the government does not extend to corporations running the Web 2.0 playground. Those guys just seem so ... nice.

Techdirt summarizes a high-tech insider trading case wherein the Law bites its own butt.

And e forwards a copy of the "Who Is Barack Obama?" email summarized here by Snopes. Curiously, the email itself refers to the Snopes page, which makes one wonder: Huh?