It’s hard enough for people to adequately protect their own digital identities. However, in today’s online culture of information oversharing, parents must also worry about safeguarding their children. Several mothers learned that the hard way when they were victimized by an unusual but disturbing form of online harassment: hackers stealing photos of their children from…

According to Marc Goodman, author of the new book Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It, 160,000 Facebook accounts are compromised every day. The thesis of Goodman’s book is an important one: as the Internet becomes a bigger part of people’s lives and also grows rapidly in…

A 12-year-old boy from Georgia named C.J. Pearson has gained a large following on the site for his outspoken conservative beliefs. Last week, he posted a video clip of himself questioning President Obama’s love of the United States, and days later he was locked out of his Facebook page. Pearson was quick to blame his…

Earlier this week, a record label executive named Paavo Siljamäki told a troubling story about a visit he paid to Facebook’s offices in Los Angeles offices. He was speaking to employees about how his business could use Facebook better when he was asked if an engineer could access his page. He gave his consent, and…

There’s no doubt that Facebook has a problem with malware, spam and cybercrime on its pages. However, it has gone to great lengths to combat these issues with its bug bounty program, which pays individual security researchers and experts who uncover problems with the site. And according to a recent report on the program from…

As the biggest social network in the world, Facebook collects an unprecedented amount of information on its more than 1.39 billion-strong active user base. While that’s usually a cause for concern, it can also be a force for good. That was the case this week when Facebook announced a partnership with Forefront: Innovations in Suicide…

For as much trouble as Facebook gets in here in the United States, it finds itself embroiled in many more controversies in Europe. The latest came this week when the Belgian Data Protection Authority commissioned a report that slammed the site’s data policies and terms of use. The report, written by a group of Belgian…

Robert Balon, a man in Gorham, New Hampshire, runs a Facebook page called “Welcome to Reality” where he shares his opinion and spouts off about local officials. However, one of Balon’s targets, Gorham police chief PJ Cyr, tried to get him to stop with a letter threatening legal action. That’s when things got messy. Cyr…

Facebook often finds itself in hot water with the media over its censorship practices. However, one editor at Time Magazine is actually calling on Facebook to censor more of its users in order to help combat the growing anti-vaccination movement. Through one of Mark Zuckerberg’s recent online book club choices, the Facebook founder and CEO…

An increasingly vocal group of Native American Facebook users have expressed displeasure with the site for the past several weeks over its “real name” policy. That rule, which requires users to identify by their given birth names, has resulted in some Native Americans being booted from the social media network because of their unusual names.…