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…
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Though Facebook wasn’t compromised by the Heartbleed bug several weeks ago, there was another bug in open source discovered this week could affect the site. According to CNET, a Ph.D. student in Singapore discovered a hole in the OAuth and OpenID log-in tools that are used by Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and many other large websites.…
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Facebook was heavily criticized this week for its “Related Articles” algorithm after users who clicked to read a real news story about Michelle Obama on The Boston Globe’s Facebook page were offered two fake stories called “President and First Lady Caught Having S*X in the Oval Office” and “Barack Has Lost All Control Of Michelle.”…
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The Washington Post revealed this week that Facebook, Google, Apple and other major tech companies are changing their privacy policies so that they will notify individual users if and when the government requests their data. The companies have said that they will only stop if they’re issued a gag order by a legal entity. These…
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Facebook announced this week that it will introduce new, more detailed privacy features for the site’s mobile app users that will allow them to decide what data they want to share when they use apps. When users attempt to use an app on Facebook on their phone, they will now be offered a comprehensive list…
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Many Facebook users are confused about Facebook’s privacy settings, and as revealed this week, some of those users include members of the United States Supreme Court. The subject of Facebook’s privacy settings came up in Riley v. California, a case involving a California man who was pulled over for expired tags but had photos pulled…
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Facebook released its first quarter earnings report last week, revealing that the company has made $2.5 billion in revenues so far in 2014. However, the site also announced some startlingly large statistics about how users are sharing content. On the call with reporters, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook Messenger has 200 million monthly users, and…
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After the “Heartbleed” bug severely compromised major websites and the Internet in general last month, tech giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Apple are teaming up to ensure it can’t happen again. The Heartbleed bug was a major vulnerability in the open-source program that was used to encrypt data across roughly two-thirds of the Internet. After…
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Facebook announced this week that it has teamed up with Storyful, a tech company that helps news organizations find and verify content on social media, to create a new program called FB Newswire. This resource will help journalists find and share content on Facebook. However, Storyful’s technology could also help stop fake news and hoaxes…
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Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg recently defended Facebook’s privacy practices in an interview with the BBC, saying that Facebook is extremely protective of user information. Her response came when concerns were raised about Facebook’s targeted advertising. “Privacy is of the utmost concern and importance to Facebook, and it’s important to us that the people…
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