Glitch In Facebook Causes Email System To Haywire

Twenty-eight year old Olympic German high jumper is used to overcoming obstacles - but recently faced one of the biggest challenges of her life, after outing her stalker on Facebook. The athlete took to the social network site...

Should the Facebook accounts belonging to the deceased be handed over to their relatives?  According to the US, new legislation is already being debated. Legislation in Oklahoma has already been passed giving relatives and...

"We've been tidying up a little, making our privacy policies and terms more consistent, easier to read and easier to understand. You see while privacy policies, ours included, may not be the most popular read on the Internet, we...

Facebook has denied allegations that it maintains 'shadow' profiles of internet users who have not yet signed up to the social network - accusations which, if proved true, could fall foul of data protection laws in an audit of...

Paul Ceglia, the man who claims to own half of Facebook, has suffered another set-back in his lawsuit against the social networking giant.Ceglia claims that he and Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered into a...

According to new reports, social media juggernaut Facebook has admitted of having hired a PR Firm in order to malign Google by spreading negative publicity about its privacy features.The matter came into the public domain after...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in partnership with digital human rights campaign group Access, has announced a new project with which it hopes to promote the cause of privacy on the Internet.The EFF's HTTPS Now project aims...

Social networking giant Facebook has launched a new messaging service that some are already touting as a Gmail killer - but is it just another phase in the social network's quest to hoover up all the personal data of its 500...

A 23-year-old Californian man is facing rather a lot of porridge after being accused of attempting to hack into the web-mail accounts of more than 3,200 women. George Samuel Bronk is up before the beak next Tuesday accused of...

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace as well as link-sharing site Digg, have been caught sharing users' personal data with advertisers without the users' consent. According to a report in the Wall Street...

Facebook has released a fresh security update in an effort to stop users' accounts from being hacked.The update will allow users to register the machine they access their Facebook accounts from and to receive text/email...

Facebook has offered to meet the US senator who has called for a curb on the social network’s power to share users’ personal information. The offer came after New York senator Charles Schumer sent an open letter to...

Facebook bosses have contacted a US senator who has called for a curb on the social network's power over users' data. Top executives got in touch with Senator Charles Schumer of New York to explain the finer points of the social...

After the user backlash suffered by Google after the launch of its new social networking tool Buzz over suspected privacy flaws, the software giant appears to be in serious trouble. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has...

Google has made major changes to the way its new social networking service works after being at the centre of a storm of criticism claiming that the service had violated users' privacy. Google Buzz is the search giant's attempt...