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  A 51-year-old mother who’s son was in prison got arrested in an attempt to set her son free. She had been digging into the ground and was 35 feet deep, making a tunnel towards the prison facility. She had a strong urge to help her son escape and live the rest of their lives somewhere far. The woman belongs to the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. She rented a house near the prison where her son was serving a life sentence for murder. Every night, she drove a silent electric scooter to an empty field near the Zaporizhia maximum security prison and used hand run tools to dig a tunnel towards the prison. She worked only during the night, using an improvised trolley to take the dirt out of the narrow tunnel. She had been working for at least three weeks and had almost reached the prison walls when she was discovered and arrested. The woman stayed inside the rented house during the day and only came out at night to avoid getting noticed. This worked, as when shown pictures of the woman foll...

Google headquarters sprawls across a large campus in Mountain View, California. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google  faces a proposed class action lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of invading people's  privacy  and tracking internet use even when browsers are set to "private" mode. The suit, filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google violates wiretapping and privacy laws by continuing to "intercept, track, and collect communications" even when people use Chrome's incognito mode and other private web browser modes. "Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy," reads the complaint. The search giant surreptitiously collects data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, website plug-ins and other applications, including  mobile apps , according to the complaint.  The lawsuit s...