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,…
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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…
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A man in Cook County, Illinois, is suing Facebook and claiming that the site has violated Illinois privacy law. The man, Carlo Licata, says that Facebook’s facial recognition technology has “secretly amassed the world’s largest privately held database of consumer biometrics data.” Licata filed a lawsuit this week that said the site violated state law…
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A medical research study called Genes for Good launched this week with the goal of analyzing the DNA of at least 20,000 people. How are they going to find such a large pool of volunteers? Facebook, of course. The researchers want participants to send a sample of their spit to a lab at the University…
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The Belgian data protection agency commissioned a report, released this week, looking into Facebook’s privacy practices in the European Union after an initial report found the site in violation of the EU’s data and privacy laws. However, the findings of the group’s second report are even more troubling. The researchers behind the study claim that…
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At its F8 developer conference last week, Facebook announced a new feature for its Messenger chat service called “Business on Messenger.” The goal of the feature, according to the site, is to streamline communications between companies and consumers by combining things like customer service, package tracking and order changes onto one platform. While it could…
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Researchers at McGill University’s School of Computer Science released a paper this week that detailed how easy it is for anyone on Facebook to generate fake “Likes.” The researchers said they originally notified Facebook of the security flaw in 2013, but after nothing was done to fix the problem, they decided to go public with…
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Facebook began rolling out a new feature this week that resurfaces your old posts, pictures and status updates from a given day years in the past. The tool, called “On This Day,” looks and functions like the popular Timehop app that pulls and publishes social media content from a user’s past. This kind of timeline…
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A Florida woman will be required to hand over her Facebook photos to Target Corporation after suing the company for a slip-and-fall incident in one of the retail giant’s stores. The woman, Maria Nucci, petitioned the Court of Appeals to nullify Target’s request, but the court denied her petition, ruling that Facebook photos could help…
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A Facebook app called Friend Verifier is celebrating its third anniversary this year and the release of Friend Verifier Version 2 with an initiative its calling #StaySafe2015. The app allows Facebook users to scan their entire list of Facebook friends for criminal records. It also lets users search for free for sex offenders in their…
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