Evidence of a grisly crime allegedly turned up on Facebook last week when, police say, a Texas man killed his girlfriend and posted pictures of her body to the social media site. To make matters far worse, Facebook allegedly did not remove the image for 36 hours. The victim’s mother reported the crime after seeing…

Tenants of the City Park Apartments in Salt Lake City, Utah, received a rude surprise when they found a new “lease addendum” taped to their doors last week. The new contract required tenants to like the City Park Apartments on Facebook within five days or be found in breach of their rental agreement. What’s worse,…

While Facebook has admitted that it uses your phone’s microphone to identify what music you’re listening to and what TV you’re watching, a professor at University of South Florida thinks the site could theoretically listen to much more. “I don’t think that people realize how much Facebook is tracking every move we’re making online,” professor…

Facebook Messenger is one of the most widely used chat apps in the world — and according to a report in The Guardian this week, it could soon become much more secure. The publication reported that Facebook is planning on releasing an “optional encrypted communications mode” for the app. This would mean that both snooping…

Facebook announced this week that it will begin displaying ads to non-users around the web in a move that could give the social networking giant a dominant role in all online advertising. The site plans to collect information on all Internet users by tracking them with small pieces of code called cookies. And how does…

Facebook and many other major tech companies and consumer advocacy groups teamed up this week to urge the Senate to pass a bill that would reform online communication privacy. The group of organizations wrote a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voicing support for the Email Privacy Act…

According to a patent filed earlier this month, Facebook may soon create personalized emojis of users’ faces. The feature would use Facebook’s facial recognition technology to scan through all of your photos to find a match with an emoji you intended to use. For example, if you typed the symbol for a smiley-face, Facebook could…

An Australian feminist group received a rude surprise this week when it tried to promote a post featuring an image of a plus-sized model on Facebook — and was subsequently rejected by the site. The picture, which was ironically included as part of a Facebook event to promote body sensitivity, allegedly violated the site’s “health…

A lawsuit claiming Facebook violated federal privacy laws by scanning the content of private messages was partially certified for class action this week in a Northern California court, meaning the case is one step closer toward going to trial. The lawsuit centers on Facebook’s practice of scanning URLs sent in private messages. While this is…

A judge in a Fair Housing Act lawsuit reprimanded the plaintiff in the case this week for making her Facebook account private during litigation. The lawsuit alleges that the defendant, a landlord, did not rent an apartment to the plaintiff after learning that two of the plaintiff’s children would be living with her. The plaintiff’s…