Scam Alerts, Vulnerabilities & Exploits Beware of ‘Remove Facebook Timeline’ Scams Cool! Hello Pink FACEB00k! And Goodbye Blue FACEB00k! Switch Your FACEB00k Profile to 5 Different Colors And Themes Facebook Virus Claims Photos Have Been Posted of You [Phishing Alert] Fake Message from Facebook Security stating you violated a policy Malware warning: There’s a bot…
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Facebook is requiring all users to switch over to Timeline by fall, but some aspects of the feature aren’t exactly sitting well with users. For instance, some posts are now displaying a map with the location of the user when he or she posts something to Facebook. Yikes! As reported by Search Engine Journal, “This…
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The Federation of German Consumer Organizations, a German consumer lobbying group, said on Monday that Facebook is giving away users’ information in its new App Center centre without first notifying them. The Federation gave Facebook a one-week ultimatum, until September 4, to comply with Germany’s rigid privacy laws and stop giving away users information to…
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Facebook has refused to take down a page called “Pedophiles are People Too” that features a disturbing image of a young girl being followed down an alley by a grown man. Instead of removing it, Facebook added a “Controversial Humor” tag to the page. “We should not be giving people like this an audience and…
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Earlier this week, the California state senate voted unanimously for a bill preventing employers from demanding access to their employees’ Facebook profiles. It is the latest such move by states looking to prevent privacy rights; similar legislation passed in Maryland and Illinois earlier this year. However, a provision was written into that California bill that…
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Facebook, which has recently clashed with local governments over the rights of foreign users, has complied with a request from the Indian government to remove content that was being used to spread hate speech and incite violence. In the northeastern state of Assam, there has been widespread violence which has left 78 dead, and threats…
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Your “likes” on a brand page can result in your name and face being used as endorsements on that brand’s page. Facebook users are not given a say in this matter, though they might soon enough: a federal judge has rejected Facebook’s $20 million settlement offer in a class action lawsuit over the privacy of…
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If you were tired of blocking all of your profile photos instead of just the select embarrassing ones, Facebook finally made a fix that will please you. You can now set a privacy setting for each individual photo in your Profile Photos album instead of applying a universal privacy setting across all your pics. To…
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In a landmark ruling issued last Friday, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III ruled that an accused criminal, Melvin Colon of New York, can’t rely on the Fourth Amendment to hide evidence on his Facebook profile. Federal investigators had tapped into his profile using an informant who was friends with him on Facebook. Colon frequently…
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) aired a lot of dirty laundry this week when they reached a settlement with Facebook forcing them to submit to privacy audits. One of the facts that emerged from their investigation was that, from May 2009 to December 2009, Facebook repeatedly deceived app developers through their “verified apps” program. Under…
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