A professional photographer and mom was temporarily banned from Facebook this week after she posted a picture of her two-year-old child on the Coppertone Facebook page. The girl’s swim trunks were being pulled down in the photo, ala the iconic logo image of the sunscreen lotion company. While Facebook’s heart is obviously in the right…

The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) late last week that alleged that the site’s experiment with its users’ emotions via their Facebook Timelines was deceitful. “At the time of the experiment, Facebook did not state in the Data Use Policy that user data would be…

A man in Ireland has been charged with “frape,” or the crime of accessing someone’s Facebook account and defacing it. He has been fined €2,000 for accessing his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook profile on her phone and posting malicious content, stating that she was a “whore” who would “take any offers.” According to The Irish Times, it…

When it came out earlier this week that Facebook was secretly experimenting with the emotions of users via their Timeline, many people were outraged. How could the site have done something so unethical? Why weren’t any standards in place to prevent such a study? More information has continued to come out about the study this…

A recently released study revealed that Facebook messed with the timelines of almost 700,000 users in an attempt to study how emotions spread on the site. Researchers from Facebook, Cornell University and the University of California-San Francisco tested whether or not the amount of positive or negative posts on a user’s timeline could affect the…

Last year, the New York district attorney’s office demanded the complete content and data from 381 Facebook user profiles, including private messages and even posts they had liked. (Prosecutors were looking for evidence that fire fighters, police officers and other civil servants were filing fake disability claims and defrauding Social Security.) Facebook fought the prosecutors’…

Facebook requires its users to be 13 years old, though some research has indicated that as many as 38 percent of children on the site are under that age. This suggests that it’s not as difficult as it should be for underage children to join the site, and that Facebook may need to get better…

If you’ve tried to scroll back through your Facebook profile and find old posts you want to get rid of, you might’ve noticed that some of them have disappeared. However, as The New York Times pointed out in a helpful tech Q&A this week, they’re not actually gone, and there’s any easy way you can…

Facebook recently announced that it would begin tracking users’ web browsing activity off of Facebook, and use that information for its targeted advertising. It also said that it will not honor the “Do Not Track” feature included in many web browsers. Thankfully, users will be able to opt out of this ad tracking, and also…

In 2010, Anthony Elonis threatened his wife on Facebook, musing on killing her again and again. He also posted lyrics from rapper Eminem, who frequently covers similar subject matter in his songs. Several lower courts ruled that what he wrote was illegal, but he pushed to have his case heard by the Supreme Court. Somewhat…