Looking at child porn online is a sure-fire way to get yourself into serious legal trouble even if you were only looking at it for the sake of academic research.

FORBES: Child Porn Will Get You Into Legal Hot Water (Unless You Work For The Feds?)

So, it was with a great deal of surprise that Senator Chuck Grassley learned that an Assistant U.S. Attorney had child porn on his computer (for his pleasure, not as part of an investigation) but faced no legal consequences.

FORBES: Child Porn Will Get You Into Legal Hot Water (Unless You Work For The Feds?)

We already know that Google scans our Gmail to target us with ads and that Facebook scans our inboxes looking for sexual predators and child porn, but many users may not have realized that the links they were exchanging privately resulted in a public though anonymous endorsement of said links.

FORBES: Facebook Scans Private Messages To Hand Out Public 'Likes'