When Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s new Graph Search feature in January, many were worried that the comprehensive search feature could dig up information on people’s profiles that they wished to remain private. With the feature’s official release yesterday, opinions and reviews of it are rolling in, and the consensus is that, for now, the search…

Fox News radio personality Todd Starnes accused Facebook of censorship on July 1, saying he was banned from the website for 12 hours because of a post that read: “I’m about as politically incorrect as you can get. I’m wearing an NRA ball cap, eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich, reading a Paula Deen cookbook and sipping…

When British media giant BSkyB pulled their advertising from Facebook because their ads were appearing next to offensive content, many media critics took notice. It was a substantial shot across Facebook’s bow, and it indicated for the first time that corporations, not just individuals, were fed up with Facebook’s tolerance of offensive content. Facebook responded…

With the recent revelations of Facebook’s involvement with the National Security Agency’s controversial PRISM wiretapping technology, many users have expressed concerns about the privacy of their data. However, reports suggest that Facebook is set to implement “forward secrecy,” a decades-old online encryption technique, to protect their users. Forward secrecy works by encoding web browsing and…

Late on Friday night, after Europe was deep asleep and the East Coast had gone home for the weekend, Facebook revealed in a blog post that contact information for about six million users had been compromised. Since they strategically dropped the news when no one was around to see it, the blogosphere has been gradually…

Brandon Copley, a mobile developer in Dallas, Texas, collected a database of 2.5 million Facebook users’ phone numbers exclusively using the site’s Graph Search function to prove a point to Facebook. He was slapped with a cease-and-desist order from Facebook for his efforts. On March 5, Copley reported a tip to Facebook pointing out the…

Yesterday, Facebook Security posted a note about a recent bug that was discovered by their White Hat program  that could have compromised the contact information of up to 6,000,000 users. According to the note, “a bug that may have allowed some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people…

In another twist in what was already a complicated story about Facebook’s involvement in the National Security Agency’s PRISM wiretapping technology, the New York Times revealed that Max Kelly, Facebook’s former security chief, left the site in 2010 and joined the NSA. “Mr. Kelly’s move to the spy agency, which has not previously been reported,…

If you commit a crime, there’s a good chance it will go on the public record. However, Brimfield Township police chief David Oliver has taken the public shaming of criminals to a whole other level, posting on his police department’s wildly popular Facebook page with rants, jokes and opinions about local criminals, who he has…

It’s long been rumored that Twitter-style hashtags were coming to Facebook, and yesterday Facebook made it official: anything posted on Facebook and marked with a pound sign is clickable. “Hashtags are just the first step to help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific topic and participate in public conversations,” Facebook…