Jim Colgan

Facebook users have become wary of the privacy settings on the social networking site, and now lawmakers may also be taking a closer look at the company and whether the public has enough protections on the website.

Our listeners respond to whether New York City’s $20 million surveillance system is effective. We also hear from listeners about whether there should be a National Day of Prayer.

California police seized the computers of the Gizmodo editor who outed the new iPhone last week. The blogger, Jason Chen, says he’s a journalist and that he should be able to protect his sources under a California shield law.

To the Apple employee who left it, the missing phone likely started out as a familiar inconvenience. But this was no ordinary phone to leave behind ? it was Apple’s new, unreleased iPhone, now outed by tech site Gizmodo.

Apple’s new iPad garnered so much interest ahead of its launch that it’s almost impossible to display it in public and not get asked questions. Takeaway web editor Jim Colgan has been drawing strangers’ attention since he got the device last weekend.