Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it’s testing a new feature in Australia called “Photo Magic” that will scan the Camera Roll of users’ phones for photos of their friends. If it finds the pictures, it will send you a notification and prompt you to send them to your friends via the Messenger app. Facebook…
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced this week that it will not force companies like Facebook to stop tracking users online. The commission had been petitioned this summer by the Consumer Watchdog activist group to make “Do Not Track” browser settings illegal for companies to ignore. As of right now, marking a “Do Not Track”…
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Social network Tsu.co claimed this week that Facebook is blocking links to it on all of the social media giant’s platforms, including Facebook Messenger and Instagram. The site allegedly even went back and deleted over one million previous posts that mentioned Tsu. So what is Tsu, exactly? It’s a very small social media site that…
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A woman from Perth, Australia, placed a bet on the Melbourne Cup horse race this week and won $825. Understandably excited, she posted a picture of herself smiling and holding the winning ticket. However, what she didn’t anticipate was one of her so-called “friends” using the picture to steal her prize. Within 15 minutes of…
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In mid-October, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a partnership between his office and Facebook to crack down on human trafficking, including child pornography. However, according to New York Post columnist John Crudele, the action was long overdue. Back in 2012, Crudele started a campaign for Facebook to rid itself of pedophilia-related content after…
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Facebook announced this week that it will make changes to its controversial “real names” policy after receiving an open letter from activist groups criticizing the site for the rule. The policy, which requires users to “use the name on Facebook that their friends and family know them by,” has come under increasingly harsh scrutiny over…
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On October 13, a 76-year-old American-Israeli peace activist named Richard Lakin was killed in a brutal terrorist attack on a Jerusalem bus. This was obviously a tragic incident, but his family was even more outraged to discover that the men behind the attack had openly plotted it over social media and even reenacted the crime…
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A federal court ruled against a Connecticut sports bar this week that had fired two employees for their actions on Facebook in 2011, deeming the firing illegal. The impetus for the firing was an exchange between the two employees about how much their employer, Triple Play Sports Bar & Grille, had withheld from their paychecks…
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This week, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) joined three other rights groups and four tech companies in urging an appellate court to reconsider a decision that allowed prosecutors to snoop Facebook users. The case started two years ago when the Manhattan District Attorney’s office presented Facebook with a bulk warrant to search the…
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One of the features in Apple’s iOS operating system tracks what iPhone users copy and paste. That’s troublesome for user privacy, but Facebook has taken it even further. When some iPhone users copy a link, Facebook now suggests that you share it—even if the Facebook app is closed. Facebook told The Daily Beast that it…
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