It was revealed earlier this month that an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) had set up a fake Facebook profile for a suspect using information and pictures confiscated from her phone. The woman in question is suing the DEA for $250,000 in damages, and Facebook itself has now entered the fray, strongly reprimanding…

Many of us know we’re not supposed to do it, but we do anyway: we use the same password across many different websites. That kind of laziness, though incredibly common, is exactly what hackers depend on. When wide-scale data breaches do then occur, it giftwraps access to not just one of your accounts, but many.…

In 2011, two 7th-graders in Cobb County, Georgia set up a malicious Facebook account making fun of one of their classmates while they sat in homeroom. The girl who was victimized by the page recognized the photo used of her and knew who had made it. She filed suit in 2012 against both students and…

Facebook announced a new feature this week called Safety Check, which can be used by users during natural disasters to inform friends and family that they’re safe. Facebook engineers in Japan began working on the tool following the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in 2011. They received positive feedback from Facebook for…

It’s not a secret: Facebook is hungry for more of its user’s data. That even includes their browsing information all across the web at sites that Facebook has nothing to do with. For mobile users who find that kind of behavior tracking creepy, there’s a new app that can help them maintain their privacy. The…

According to The New York Times, Facebook is only a few weeks away from releasing a standalone mobile app that will allow users to interact with each other without having to use their real names. According to the Times, the app could be used as a Reddit-like tool that allows users to have frank and…

Facebook understandably receives a lot of bad press for its privacy policies and what it does with user data. However, there’s no denying the site has stepped up its efforts to rid Facebook of spammy content. According to Matt Jones, Facebook’s site integrity engineer, the company has won massive legal victories in court against these…

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) arrested a woman named Sondra Prince in 2010 and confiscated her phone. While that’s not newsworthy in and of itself, what they did with her phone was: a DEA agent mined Prince’s phone for photos and used them to set up a fake Facebook profile under her name. The agency…

On any given day, there is never a shortage of Facebook news. Over a billion people are members of the social network and countless businesses and organizations use the platform as well. Any time you have this many people in one place, there is bound to be numerous newsworthy events. As our long time readers…

Facebook is far and away the biggest social networking site in the world, and it’s also one of the most visited websites overall. Despite many users’ frustrations with its privacy practices and advertising efforts, the site so far shows no signs of slowing down. As spelled out by The Next Web in a blog post…