An Israeli tech company has developed an app, FakeOff, which can help users detect fake Facebook profiles. The app builds a list of “suspects” for investigation, uses an algorithm to analyze their information, gets results of their fakery on a 1-10 score, and even scans a suspect’s profile to see if they’re using someone else’s…

This week, the Freeland Police Department in Pennsylvania posted the wanted photo of 35-year-old man Anthony James Lescowitch, who they were searching for in connection to an assault that took place over the summer. Lescowitch certainly didn’t help his own getaway efforts, posting his own wanted photo on his Facebook wall and taunting the police…

Derek Muller is the curator for science video blog Vertiasium, which has about 118,000 Facebook fans. That’s a pretty good-sized audience, but, according to Muller, there’s a problem: he claims that only a tiny percentage of the page’s fan base is actually seeing the posts that the page publishes and that Facebook is burying the…

The Facebook “Find Your Account” page is designed as service to help users recover the passwords or email addresses associated with their log in. The only problem: any user can enter information about any other user, and uncover potentially revealing information. Author Adam Tanner put the feature to the test for a story in Forbes,…

Security firm AVG has created a new software product, PrivacyFix, which utilizes Facebook’s Social Graph dataset to help keep families on the site protected. Social Graph is Facebook’s underlying database of information that they use to provide the Graph Search feature. AVG claims to be the first security company to take advantage of this data…

Most Facebook users know that they could take steps to protect their profiles from prying eyes, but they aren’t sure where to start. However, it’s easier than you might think. InformationWeek published a blog post this week detailing three simple steps Facebook users can take to immediately make an impact on their online privacy. First,…

Facebook has had a tough month dealing with legislation from its own users. The site’s legal woes continued this week as Anthony Ditirro, a Facebook user, filed a class-action lawsuit against the site for allegedly “liking” the Facebook page for the USA Today on his behalf. Ditirro says he never liked the newspaper’s page, and…

Facebook will finally shut down the controversial “Sponsored Stories” advertising program on April 9. Originally launched in 2011, these ads showed how your Facebook friends interacted with sponsored pages, events or apps, and if users “liked” a page or checked in at a location or event, their picture could show up next to it in…

According to a recent study conducted by advertising agency McCann, 59 percent of the 1,100 individuals surveyed believe that Facebook poses the greatest threat to the future of privacy online. In comparison, 40 percent said Twitter posed the greatest threat, while 32 percent said Google. On the flip side, 73 percent of users said they…

Though you and most people you know likely already have a Facebook profile (the site has over 1 billion users and counting, after all) there are still steps that new users should take to ensure their profile’s privacy is optimized. A blog post on Yahoo! Tech this week laid out how a new user to…