Facebook unveiled new audio technology this week that can identify what you’re watching or listening to. The technology, which will be implemented in Facebook’s mobile app, uses smart phone microphones to listen to a user’s surroundings, and according to Aryeh Selekman, a Facebook representative, the technology can recognize millions of different songs, TV shows and…

A lot of trouble on Facebook could be avoided if users tightly controlled the audience that could see their content. But for a long time, the privacy settings for new Facebook users were automatically set to Public, which meant anyone and everyone could see their profiles. Users had to actively seek out their privacy settings…

Facebook and its partners F-Secure and Trend Micro, two Internet security companies, will soon offer free downloads of Trend Micro’s HouseCall malware removal software or F-Secure’s Online Scanner software to infected users. The two programs will complement Facebook’s existing malware-detecting technology. The site will scan users’ profiles and recommend software based on their needs in…

You can find social log-in buttons on websites of all stripes, encouraging you to sign in through Facebook, Google or other social platforms. However, according to an article this week in The Wall Street Journal, many users and businesses alike have steadily shied away from the feature for fear of their information being compromised. “A…

In 2011, a Superior Judge ordered a New Jersey woman to stop posting about her ex-husband and children on Facebook after she attempted to kidnap her two children and take them to Canada. However, the mother continued to write about her family using the code word “Camelot” in 2012, posting disturbing content that referenced the…

There’s a lesson that many people, criminals and alike, never seem to learn: what they post on Facebook can, in fact, be used against them. There was a reminder of that this week as 21-year-old Florida man Taylor Harrison posted pictures on Facebook of himself selling drugs while parked next to a police squad car.…

Facebook has said in the past that encrypting chat on the site could be difficult. However, users can achieve end-to-end encryption for their Facebook chats right now using an open source program called Cryptocat. The program works by logging in to a user’s Facebook account and pulling their contact list to set up chats. If…

Last week, an Ohio couple received a rude surprise when they found out that pictures of their three-week-old daughter had been stolen from Facebook and used to create a fake virtual family. Rick and Natalie Ross discovered that one of Natalie’s Facebook friends, a woman in Kentucky, had stolen the picture from the site and…

Mark Zuckerberg said in a late April conference call that Facebook wanted to explore ways to capture content from users’ private conversations on the site. As messaging apps like WhatsApp (which Facebook recently acquired) become more popular, it makes sense that the social media giant would target these conversations as the next great platform to…

Facebook acquired the popular fitness app Moves in late April, raising concerns that the social media site could use the app’s technology to gather more data about users. Moves announced at the time that they would remain a standalone app, and that there were “no plans to commingle data with Facebook.” However, Moves updated its…