How to handle a Facebook bully or stalker
An anonymous reader has been getting a lot of unwanted, and potentially frightening, attention on Facebook. I offer some advice.
Lincoln Spector | 27 Jan | Read more
An anonymous reader has been getting a lot of unwanted, and potentially frightening, attention on Facebook. I offer some advice.
Lincoln Spector | 27 Jan | Read more
An Austrian court has set a date for Facebook to face a class action complaint about its privacy policy from 25,000 of its users.
Loek Essers | 26 Jan | Read more
Supporters of the extremist group known as ISIS or the Islamic State apparently took over the Twitter and YouTube accounts on Monday of the U.S. Central Command, a top military security unit.
Zach Miners | 13 Jan | Read more
Facebook is adding a third antivirus engine to its service to help catch malicious content in the News Feed and messages sent by users.
Jeremy Kirk | 04 Dec | Read more
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its users have downloaded.
Zach Miners | 27 Nov | Read more
Facebook lets its users control whether other people can see the information they post, but when it comes to controlling what Facebook itself gets to see, privacy-conscious users are out of luck.
Zach Miners | 15 Nov | Read more
Online service providers need to do a better job telling users what information will be gathered about them and how it will be used, a top official at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.
Zach Miners | 13 Nov | Read more
Internet companies have run amok with our personal data, and people aren't entirely sure what to do about it, judging from the results of a new survey.
Zach Miners | 13 Nov | Read more
Social media app Whisper, a supposedly anonymous way for users to post online confessions, is now facing privacy questions from a U.S. senator after reports that it tracks locations of users and has shared their information with other companies.
Grant Gross | 25 Oct | Read more
A social network that attracted attention last year for its strong privacy features has quietly disappeared off the Web.
Zach Miners | 04 Oct | Read more
Remember when Facebook played with your emotions and made you mad? OK, that's every day. But back in July, the social network revealed that it had experimented with your News Feed by showing some users more positive posts and others more negative ones. The resulting outrage prompted Facebook to change its research policy, but its self-imposed restrictions don't go far enough to appease anyone.
Caitlin McGarry | 03 Oct | Read more
A new social network is generating buzz for its hard stance against paid advertising and data collection. But how the site really works, when it comes to privacy, is a little more nuanced.
Zach Miners | 26 Sep | Read more
What should happen to your personal digital communications -- emails, chats, photos and the like -- after you die? Should they be treated like physical letters for the purposes of a will?
Zach Miners | 16 Sep | Read more
Facebook is rolling out a new privacy settings checkup tool designed to give users a clearer picture of who can see their posts and other information they share.
Zach Miners | 05 Sep | Read more
Both the lines of business and IT departments acknowledge the value of "Bring Your Own Identity" (BYOID) initiatives, where social networking or digital IDs are used for application login.
Anuradha Shukla | 19 Aug | Read more