Facebook punishes app developers found selling user data
Facebook has confirmed that some application developers sold identifying user information to a data broker. The offending developers—not named directly by the company—have been placed on suspension for six months, Fac...
Security alert: New Trojan Horse apps said to attack the Mac
Some security mavens have long theorized that as the Mac becomes more popular, we'd start to see malware that would start targeting the platform. Sure enough, this morning's crop of email blasts from PR firms included a few notices of trojans that are ...
More privacy headaches for Facebook: gay users outed to advertisers
Facebook's privacy problems continue this week after researchers discovered that Facebook may inadvertently be outing gay users to its advertisers. Saikat Guha from Microsoft and Bin Cheng and Paul Francis from the Max Planck In...
Facebook app breach gets the attention of Congress
Facebook's latest privacy breaches have gotten the attention of Congress. US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) have written a joint letter (PDF) to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, interrogating him on what t...
First Look: A totally Unsocial app
Sometimes it seems like the last thing we need is another social networking app, but how about being Unsocial?
Unsocial (free) is a new iPhone app described as the unholy spawn of LinkedIn and Foursquare. In other words, it's oriented towards busines...
Popular Facebook apps found to be collecting, selling user info
If you use Facebook but don't want your personal information leaked all over the Web, you had better make sure you don't use any of Facebook's most popular apps. According to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal, "tens...
How to use, abuse, and leave Facebook Groups
Facebook's new "Groups" feature is slowly making its way out to users, allowing people to set up group chats, document editing, and events for different aspects of their social lives. However, like most new features at Facebook, ...
Govt relies on Facebook "narcissism" to spot fake marriages, fraud
Can the government get a full picture of who you are by friending you on Facebook and monitoring your friends and family? The Department of Homeland Security thinks so, and is apparently willing to pose as that hot girl...
"Deleted" Facebook photos still not deleted: a followup
Facebook may be making strides in some areas of privacy, but the company is still struggling when it comes to deleting user photos—or not deleting them, as the case may be.
We wrote a piece more than a year ago...
Data portability finally comes to Facebook, plus friend groups
Facebook revealed a number of features on Wednesday that give users more flexibility with their information, more control over how third parties access their data, and a new way to handle their social groups.
The first announc...
Facebook ‘very confident’ it can work with Ping
Last we heard, Facebook and the new iTunes-based social network Ping were at odds with each other, with Facebook providing "onerous terms" and Apple trying to hook into the bigger network anyway. But maybe they can still heal the rift. Facebook CTO Br...
Foursquare app gets a version bump
Being the geek that I am, I always have time to annoy my wife by checking into venues with Foursquare whenever we go somewhere. The free location-based social networking iPhone app gained even more awesomeness (their description, not mine) today with t...
