The Vineland Police Department in New Jersey has been forced to restore comments to its Facebook page that were critical of the department for its role in the shooting death of Phillip White, a man who died in police custody. White was arrested when police were called to respond to a man “freaking out.” A…

A developer made big waves this week when he claimed on a Hacker News message board that a third party is scanning private Facebook messages for information. The company, online risk assessment firm Recorded Future, also has financial ties to the CIA’s investment arm. However, both Facebook and the company have denied snooping on messages.…

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), regarded as one of the premier journalistic watchdog organizations in the country, expressed concern in a column this week over Facebook’s partnership with major news organizations. The arrangement, made between Facebook and several publications like Buzzfeed and The New York Times, will allow the organizations to post news directly to…

A 62-year-old California woman has sued the AMC television network for sharing with Facebook her personal web browsing info on the TV channel’s site, which enables “social plugins” that allow Facebook to track what its users are watching. The suit claimed that this practice violates the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 law that has…

Last week, Facebook introduced a new feature called Scrapbook that lets parents organize and keep track of their children’s pictures on the site. However, some critics have pointed out that privacy-minded parents shouldn’t upload pictures of their kids to the social media site at all. Time Magazine responded to the new feature with a column…

Facebook is rolling out a peer-to-peer payment system over the next few months that will allow users to store debit card information on the site and send money to their friends via Facebook Messenger. However, some have expressed skepticism about the payment feature, including a recent article in the U.S. News & World Report that…

Facebook published 11 new interactive visual guides to its privacy and security settings this week. The subjects of the guides include “Hacked Accounts,” “Spam,” “Phishing” and “How You’re Protected.” The site says it wants to help users secure their accounts. It also wants to educate users about what Facebook does to protect their profiles and…

Facebook has a feature that uses facial recognition software to “help” your Facebook friends tag you in their photos. If you have this option enabled, any time one of your friends uploads a photo, Facebook will “suggest” you as a match based on the recommendations of the software. It is important to note that your…

In a landmark ruling that could have big ramifications for future romantic breakups, a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice has ruled that a woman can serve her hard-to-find husband divorce papers via private Facebook message. The woman, a nurse named Ellanora Baidoo, married her husband in a civil ceremony in 2009. However, according to Baidoo’s lawyer,…

If you’re a Facebook user, you’ve probably experienced that feeling of shock when a long-forgotten friend or ex pops up in the site’s “People You May Know” section. This week, The Washington Post took a deep look into how the site can know so much about your relationships. The paper’s article mentioned a Reddit user…