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Airtime Privacy Concerns: Preventing 'PenisRoulette' By Secretly Taking Your Picture

Airtime, Sean Parker's new social video chatting service for Facebook, launched today with an event that totally unraveled into a complete fiasco. But what might rankle more than a rocky launch is the revelation Airtime will take “snapshots of users periodically to ensure site safety,” according to an Airtime spokesperson quoted in Forbes.

 

Chatroulette Parts With Private Parts, Looking For A New Look

Chatroulette is plotting another comeback! The Russian website that allows complete strangers to jump from one awkward random video chat to the next was all the rage among the Web’s tastemakers in the first half of last year, but it seems like everyone’s now pretty much moved on. The fact that the site was – and is still – frequently used by creeps who couldn’t seem to keep their pants on didn’t help much in that regard.

 

Chatroulette Couldn’t Get It Up

At one point the Chatroulette V.2 anticipation was so thick over at TechCrunch HQ that even we were, how you say, premature. But not as premature as the folks over at Chatroulette themselves, who ominously lured us in yesterday in with, “The experiment #1 is over for now.

 

Chatroulette Threatens Perverts With Police

Chatroulette Threatens Perverts With Police

Chatroulette has announced that it is going to take steps against the worst offenders on its service, threatening people who expose themselves to minors with the police.

Senh: They gotta do something to stop guys from exposing themselves. Live video chats are probably too hard to moderate because they can expose themselves at any time.

 

Chatroulette Isn't The Only Site Brought Down by the Big Wang

Chatroulette Isn't The Only Site Brought Down by the Big Wang

Stories about Chatroulette's spiraling traffic caused by guys showing their joystick every 10 seconds brought back memories of another site brought down by the same bodily member.

 

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