Facebook is working with a data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the site are actually buying the advertised products in stores. Facebook has felt some pressure to prove the worth of its advertising, but its efforts to dig up data have raised even more concerns. “We kept hearing…

Facebook announced yesterday that they will now be adding user search history to their Activity Log. The Activity Log was released along with Timeline late last year and is a useful tool that allows you to quickly review and manage your Facebook activity. Quite a few bloggers have posted some sensational headlines about this new…

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has been investigating Facebook’s privacy settings and determining how they comply with data protection regulations in Europe. The investigation, which took several months, has resulted in Facebook implementing the majority of the Commission’s recommendations. Facebook has improved transparency, made it easier for its European users to change their settings, and, most…

The new Shared Activity plugin on Facebook could help users control who sees their updates. With the plugin, developers can add a widget that would allow users to adjust their Open Graph privacy settings from other websites without having to go back to Facebook from, say, a music app they’re using. Users will be allowed…

Earlier this month, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota ruled that a student’s online privacy is protected under the first and fourth amendments, and any school officials who require the disclosure of a student’s password is violating their privacy rights. The case concerns a 12-year-old in Minnesota who wrote negative remarks about an employee at…

Some schools in the Indian city of Chennai have created fake Facebook profiles to snoop on their own students. Students are saying malicious things about their schools, teachers and each other, and the schools see it as their responsibility to monitor what is being said online. However, many have questioned the morality and even legality…

One thing is for sure on the Facebook platform, some scams and hoaxes never really die. They are just repackaged, resurrected and recirculated! The following message is based on a past hoax and has recently gone viral: “To all my FB friends, may I request you to please do something for me: I want to…

A recent review of the Australian military found that its soldiers might be spilling secrets to pretty women they meet online – and that these women may be fake profiles set up by the Taliban. According to ZDNet, The defense report surveyed 1577 military personnel and found that 58 percent have been given no social…

The Norton Cybercrime Report was released today in Singapore, and uncovered some startling statistics about mobile and social networking cybercrime in Singapore. Per CNET Asia: “12 percent of social network users reported someone had hacked into their profile and pretended to be them. 12 percent of social network users said they had fallen victim to…

Last week, Facebook fixed a misconfiguration in its system that allowed for spammers to use your friends list to send spam emails purportedly from your contacts. Facebook did fix the issue, but there are still spam messages rolling in as the spammers in question are using previously obtained information. Here was Facebook’s statement, as reported…