Court query on shielding kids from online exploitation

23 May, 2013, 8:51 am IST Social Networking

The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked Facebook and other social networking sites how Indian children could be prevented from knowingly or unknowingly... More

Facebook can retain real name policy, German court rules

16 Feb, 2013, 10:41 am IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Facebook has won a court challenge against its real name policy in Germany, according to an AP report. An administrative court in Germany granted the social More

Facebook to make it difficult for pervs to find minors using Graph Search

15 Feb, 2013, 11:35 am IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Facebook has laid to rest apprehensions about privacy of children and teenagers with regards to the newest search function, the Graph Search. In a blog post, More

Facebook launches 'Ask Our CPO' to address privacy concerns

30 Jan, 2013, 6:25 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Facebook has launched a new service called ‘Ask Our Chief Privacy Officer’ (CPO) to help address concerns users might have related to privacy and its Privacy Policy. More

Hands on with Facebook Graph Search

21 Jan, 2013, 6:37 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking 4 Comments

Friends who like a band? Friends who like an author? There is a lot more you can do with Graph Search. More

A layman’s guide to Facebook Graph Search

16 Jan, 2013, 11:35 am IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking 1 Comments

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a Facebook Phone? No! It’s the Facebook Graph! More

‘Midnight Delivery’ on Facebook now safe

01 Jan, 2013, 10:42 am IST Priyanka Tilve Social Networking

After receiving flak over the security flaw in its ‘Midnight Delivery’ service, Facebook has finally fixed the bug. Earlier in the week, it had launched... More

Zuckerberg's sister complains about breach of Facebook privacy

27 Dec, 2012, 5:29 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Look who’s gotten embroiled in a Facebook privacy controversy – founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, Randi. The former head of marketing at More

Facebook's Privacy Shortcuts option makes it easier to find Settings

20 Dec, 2012, 7:22 pm IST tech2 News Staff Social Networking 1 Comments

Have you spotted the new icon between the Home option and the scroll wheel icon in the top-right corner on Facebook? Well, that is the Privacy shortcuts option... More

Facebook faces problems in Germany due to real name policy

18 Dec, 2012, 5:52 pm IST Shunal Doke Social Networking

Facebook seems to be in trouble in Europe. According to IT World, a German privacy regulator has ordered the social networking giant to stop forcing its policy More

Facebook unveils new privacy controls

13 Dec, 2012, 9:56 am IST Social Networking

Facebook Inc began rolling out a variety of new privacy controls on Wednesday, the company's latest effort to address user concerns about ... More

Privacy groups ask Facebook to withdraw proposed policy changes

27 Nov, 2012, 10:03 am IST Social Networking 1 Comments

Two privacy advocacy groups urged Facebook Inc on Monday to withdraw proposed changes to its terms of service that would... More

Facebook's 'couple' pages earn users' ire

20 Nov, 2012, 5:53 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Facebook has rolled out a mandatory ‘couples page’ feature embedded within the timeline. More

Facebook takes another shot at settling privacy lawsuit

16 Nov, 2012, 10:50 am IST Social Networking

A U.S. judge said he would consider whether to preliminarily approve Facebook's second attempt to settle allegations... More

Loophole in Facebook shortcut for auto-login affects 1 million accounts

03 Nov, 2012, 5:43 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Social Networking

A shortcut to make logging into Facebook easy and quick, ended up exposing users e-mail addresses. More

Facebook introduces new privacy education enhancement

03 Nov, 2012, 12:39 pm IST Shunal Doke Social Networking

Facebook has been pushing to make its privacy settings easier to understand and use. According to an announcement by the social networking giant, those signing... More

Internet anonymity: a Promethean fire of this generation

27 Sep, 2012, 6:02 pm IST Nachiket Mhatre General 1 Comments

I have been using the Internet long enough to have seen its gradual metamorphosis from its crude but beautiful original form into what the cool kids perceive it as today... More

Judge steps away from Facebook privacy lawsuit

12 Jul, 2012, 9:46 am IST General

A judge recused herself from overseeing a privacy lawsuit against Facebook over the social networking service's "Sponsored Stories" ... More

Facebook working on a fix for e-mail sync glitch

03 Jul, 2012, 5:43 pm IST Roydon Cerejo General

Last week, Facebook decided to switch all of their users email addresses to @facebook.com, without their knowledge. This replaced their existing email IDs and More

Facebook changes your e-mail ID without asking you

26 Jun, 2012, 12:02 pm IST Rossi Fernandes General 2 Comments

Facebook is an extremely popular phenomenon and they have a bunch of services, one of which is the free e-mail service. The e-mail service that was launched More