The Army Threat Integration Center has issued a warning to U.S. military personnel to watch what they post online and protect their identities. The militant Middle Eastern terrorist group, ISIS, has called on its supporters and lone wolf offenders to search the Yellow Pages, Facebook and Twitter for the addresses of military service members and…

Facebook raised a storm of outrage last month when it decided to more strictly enforce it’s “real names” policy, inadvertently forcing many in the LGBT community to reveal their true identities on the site. However, Facebook has reversed its stance, and officially apologized in a blog post from product chief Christopher Cox. “In the two…

A new California law says that public schools can only track students on Facebook if school officials think a student is “threatening harm, bullying or promoting any illegal activity against other students, staff or campuses.” The law also requires schools to notify the parents of any student whose social media info has been gathered. In…

Details emerged this week about Facebook’s new ad platform that will focus on cross-device advertising to users. The new platform, Atlas, will “deliver people-based marketing,” according to Atlas head Erik Johnson, and will reportedly move away from traditional cookie tracking technology to trace users across the web. Instead, it was built on a whole new…

A new ad-free and privacy-focused social network called Ello has risen dramatically in popularity in recent weeks. In the wake of Facebook enforcing its “real name” rule and inadvertently alienating members of the LGBT community, Ello made a point to welcome those who left Facebook over the issue.  Though the invite-only site was only created…

Many users were thoroughly freaked out earlier this year when it was revealed that Facebook had conducted a psychological experiment on some 700,000 users, affecting the content that showed up on their Newsfeeds to manipulate their emotions. At the time the news broke, the study was widely derided as being wrong and unethical. But now,…

Facebook has found itself in a controversy with LGBT groups this month after it decided to more strictly enforce its “real names” policy, making all users go by their birth names on the site. However, as pointed out sharply in an infographic created by cartoonist Mike Wooten this week, there are many more reasons people…

According to the Wall Street Journal, many web retailers are pushing back against Facebook’s plan to track user data across the Internet. Experts have seen less data flowing from websites to Facebook, which suggests that they’ve taken steps to limit the information given to the site. Many websites are concerned about Facebook’s data tracking, as…

According to an article published by Forbes this week, the largest social media site in the world can predict almost anything about you using the data that you’ve given it, including your political affiliation, your future relationships and even your sibling’s name. According to Pew Research data, about six in 10 Americans use Facebook every…

In a story on social media privacy this week, The New York Times relayed the story of Michael Letwin, a Brooklyn lawyer who had his Facebook account shut down for no apparent reason. After a month of contacting Facebook to get reinstated, the site finally apologized and corrected the mistake. It turned out that Letwin…