A 30-year-old man in Tallahassee, Florida has been arrested for hacking into multiple people’s email and Facebook accounts, stealing photos and wreaking general havoc in their online lives. The suspect, Michael Rubens, hacked one woman’s email and sent messages to her sister and boyfriend asking for “sexy pictures.” He also posted nude or sexual photos…
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British Prime Minister David Cameron slammed Facebook last year after it was revealed that extremists had discussed their plot to kill a soldier within the United Kingdom on the site, plans that ultimately led to the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Cameron called Facebook a “safe haven” for terrorists, and said the site could have…
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Graphic and violent videos have long been a controversial part of Facebook News Feeds. Even though the site takes down some explicit content, it often allow these posts to remain up either on free speech grounds or because they don’t violate Facebook’s often-confusing Community Standards. However, the site took a big step toward protecting users…
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Though many users and digital security experts are often dismayed by Facebook’s Big Brother-like tendency to gather user information, the site’s massive reach can also have big benefits. For example, Facebook used its power for good this week when it partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to broadcast Amber Alerts on…
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University recently conducted a study to determine how well Facebook knows you. They released the results this week, and what they found is eye-opening. It turns out that the computer model the researchers built to analyze Facebook users could predict their personality better than their own friends…
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After the brutal terrorist attacks on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on the site and pledged its dedication to free speech. “Facebook has always been a place where people across the world share their views and ideas,” Zuckerberg wrote. “As I reflect on yesterday’s attack and my…
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A Santa Cruz, California man arrested in January on child pornography charges has been arrested again – this time for creating a fake Facebook profile for the police officer that arrested him the first time, and using that fake profile to distribute child pornography. Santa Cruz county cops along with the FBI raided the man’s…
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Anthony Lyons, a 16-year-old leukemia patient in Phoenix, Arizona, loves it when the therapy dogs at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital visit him. So a family friend created a Facebook events page called “Photo Doggies for Anthony,” which invited users all over the world to share pictures of their happy pups. The heartwarming page quickly went…
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Facebook recently (and finally) rolled out its Graph Search feature, which allows users to search and sift through virtually any post on the site from mobile devices. That’s a massive amount of search power, but according to a column in TechCrunch, it’s an even bigger deal than we realize. According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has…
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An Australian woman was ordered in court this week to pay $12,500 to her estranged husband for defaming him on Facebook. The woman, Robyn Greeuw, wrote that she “had separated from Miro Dabrowski after 18 years of suffering domestic violence and abuse. Now fighting the system to keep my children safe.” According to the judge,…
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