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it's Tuesday number fifteen twenty eleven i'm brigitte carry on cnet com and it's time to get loaded lying about who you are on the internet will be a crime if the Department of Justice has their way the department is pushing Congress to make it a felony to make up an identity on Facebook or even lie about how you look on a dating site basically going against the site's terms of use the point is to go after people who abuse a network or commit criminal acts like identity theft it's a proposal to strengthen the current Computer Fraud and Abuse Act but opponents like the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation say it's not lawful their argument if it's not a crime to lie about yourself at a party why can't you lie online if you don't want Google to have your home Wi-Fi in its geolocation database google has explained how to take it off you just have to know how to change the name of your Wi-Fi network at the end of the network name add underscore no map this summer it was discovered google had a database of Wi-Fi hotspots that used for mapping including some people's home networks and the PCs and phones that use those networks the data was gathered through various devices like Android phones and google street view cars anyone could tap into this information until google curbed that feature but it's only now that google offered a way for someone to remove their network info from the database the iTunes Match service went live yesterday in an update to the iTunes software if you have music that wasn't purchased from itunes the service will find the matching song in the iTunes library and make it available for your account on the cloud it costs twenty-five dollars a year but the idea is that a user doesn't have to worry about where their file is saved when it could be accessed from any device that uses itunes software it won't work for rare tracks that aren't sold already in itunes and stay tuned for how Google's new music cloud service will compare that announcement comes tomorrow ATT continues to work to catch up to verizon's LTE 4g network by the end of the month AT&T will have 15 areas that can use LTE 4g adding Charlotte North Carolina Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Oklahoma City and San Juan Puerto Rico so for anyone counting that's 80 with 15 LTE cities Verizon with 165 18c currently 24 devices that can tap into their faster 4G network Twilight fans better watch what they search for and click this week as the new movie comes out friday security experts from norton warn there is a rise and malicious websites ready to sink their teeth is this poor unsuspecting Twihard searching for details on twilight breaking dawn searching for photos trailers clips and plot details can pull up sites that automatically download viruses or key logging programs that will stalk your every keystroke and in turn likely suck the life from your bank account those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey pristina calm and you just been loaded