French police recently warned parents not to post pictures of their children on Facebook, saying that the images could serve to attract sexual predators or cause the children problems down the road in adulthood. In fact, one French expert even thinks that children could one day sue their parents over unwanted Facebook pics. French Internet…
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Brazilian police arrested Facebook VP Diego Dzodan this week after the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp “repeatedly fail[ed] to comply with judicial orders” in a drug trafficking case. According to CNN, Brazilian authorities began four months ago to investigate a criminal ring that used WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to communicate. When a judge ordered Facebook to…
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Sometimes, a criminal’s own worst enemy is himself. That was the case this week when two UK brothers were sent to jail for two years after mocking a judge on Facebook who had given them a two-year suspended sentence. Daniel and Samuel Sledden received a two-year suspended sentence from judge Beverly Lunt after being caught…
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If you’ve been on Facebook recently, there’s no chance you missed the site’s latest update: “Like” emojis. Instead of only having the choice to “like” posts with a thumbs-up, users can now flag posts with emojis that signify a range of emotions, including “Love,” “Wow,” “Sad” and “Angry.” For the people who have asked the…
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Facebook fights hard against the idea that it’s some kind of creepy Big Brother watching over us all. However, it doesn’t help its own case when it makes announcements like this from last week: Facebook plans to use Artificial Intelligence and satellite imaging to map every building in the world. While it sounds invasive, the…
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A 22-year-old woman working as a waitress in Connecticut recently received a strange Facebook notification from someone she’d lost touch with. When Karena Bennett clicked, she was shocked and horrified to find a picture of herself, her husband and her newborn baby, posing and smiling in the hospital room. The picture had been attached to…
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People share a lot of their life on Facebook, but they probably don’t know the extent of the intimate details their use of the site reveals about themselves. That’s why Danish coder Søren Louv-Jansen built a simple program that allowed him to create sleep schedules for all of his friends based on when they were…
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A judge in California this week ordered Apple to hack the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, terrorist shooters, but Apple has pushed back, saying that such an action would qualify as an “unprecedented step” that could threaten the security of all Apple users. Now Facebook and Twitter have backed Apple in their…
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It’s easy to forget when you’re posting on Facebook, but your employers might be able to see what you’re doing—and use it to make a decision on the future of your career. In fact, the National Labor Relations Board ruled several years ago that you can be fired for social media posts, while more and…
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Republican presidential candidates are currently engaged in a war of words over, of all things, a fake Facebook page. The fraudulent page falsely claimed that South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy switched his endorsement from Marco Rubio to Ted Cruz. Gowdy released a statement through the Rubio presidential campaign vehemently denying this, and demanding that Cruz…
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