The anonymous 73-year old woman would phone her son up to 49 times a day, over a period of two and a half years. Fed up, he brought the case to court.

"I just wanted to talk to him," the woman told the court, according to Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung. "I can't talk to my son, nor my daughter. I've never seen my grandchild — who is already 15-years-old," she said.

It sounds like there may be some deeper issues at play here, but um, there might be a few 40-year old Trekkies around who would gladly have this mother. "I'll be right down there in the basement with some cheesy poofs, honey!" [Yahoo News, Image Credit]

Apparently, a leather-clad biker kept showing up everywhere Cowell went, so he had his car swept for bugs. At that point, they found a sophisticated tracking device magnetically attached to the undercarriage of his car. Who would go to such lengths to stalk Simon frigging Cowell? Could it be a stalker? Probably not, as stalkers rarely have the funds or wherewithal to use such fancy technology.

No, this was probably the work of an enterprising paparazzo, trying to get the scoop on where the acerberic Brit was at all times. How creepy and worthless! Who cares about where Simon Cowell goes? If you're going to violate someone's privacy, you might as well make it someone interesting. [Mirror via The Raw Feed]

If you take the video at face value, some "hackers" have taken over the family's cellphones and are using it to record conversations and take illicit pictures of the victims. They're also breaking into voicemail and leaving threats about raping and killing the daughter. This happens even if the family changes cellphones, apparently, so whoever's doing this is a hardcore hax0r the likes we haven't seen since the first Scream movie. – Jason Chen

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Plus, after you upload the data onto your computer via USB, you can even map out her comings and goings onto Google Earth—giving you a birds-eye-view of her trip to your friend Larry's apartment.

If you're looking for a less nefarious (read: illegal) use, you can always just use this as a vacation trip logger on a cross country drive, giving your extended family a way to keep up with you virtually. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Thinkgeek via Gearfuse]

Now several news organizations are reporting on a "teen epidemic" of "Tech Stalking", a new twist to date abuse the includes cyber-stalking and the use of text-messaging and cellphone calling to dominate, humiliate and/or harass the young and impressionable, in most cases teen girls.

"Alarming numbers of teens in dating relationships are being controlled, abused and threatened using simple tech devices," according to Teenage Research Unlimited, which conducted the nationwide survey of 615 teens 13 to 18.

* 30 percent said they've been text messaged or e-mailed 10, 20 or 30 times an hour by a partner wanting to check up on them.
* 18 percent said their partner used a social-networking site to harass them.
* 17 percent said their partner made them "afraid not to respond to a cellphone call, e-mail, IM or text message."
* 10 percent said they had been threatened in calls or messages.
* 58 percent of parents whose teens were physically assaulted by their partner did not know it had happened.

Disturbing statistics indeed—we here at Gizmodo love gadgets too much to see them embroiled in this type of seedy and abusive behavior. Please, think of the gadgets. And of course, the children.

Teens and their parents can visit the newly launched website for abusive teen dating in the technological age called LoveIsRespect or call the toll-free hotline at (866)331-9474 –Dana Bushman

'Tech' Stalking: Teen Epidemic [NY Post]
Teen Jerk's Obsession is 2 Die 4 [NY Post]

The point? If there is even the slightest chance that you may have a very geeky stalker, you may want to avoid running at night because these Nike + iPod kits are easily hackable, as it seems. – Travis Hudson

Nike+iPod raises RFID privacy concerns [News.com]