When the authorities send a subpoena to Facebook for your account information, what do they receive? Here is a document showing the pages and pages of data Facebook hands over.

January 6, 2012 - 6:00 A.M.
Facebook login & password theft en masse: Ramnit slurps 45,000

here’s everything you need to know about Facebook Timeline.

In the wake of rising scam reports, the company has launched new protective measures and released statistics on attacks.

A conversation with Nicholas Felton shows how Facebook's new apps will uncover uncomfortable truths about users -- and how the same data could enable entirely new kinds of targeted advertising

Although Timeline is not available to the public yet, we found a way in and tested it. Here's how to make the most of Facebook's new feature.

Facebook will attempt to address some perceived weaknesses of its interface by making content sharing more precise and visual in a redesign that launches this week.

THE GIST
Facebook's phone book feature is causing a ruckus.
Phone numbers are automatically showing up in user's contacts lists.
Millions of underage Facebookers could be vulnerable, despite the company's prohibition on those under 16.

WhoIsLive lets you see who is viewing the same webpage as you and start conversations with them.

Even MySpace’s Founders Have Stopped Using MySpace

If This Then That
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create and explore a visual archive of your social life.

Warning comes amid concerns over blurring of boundaries between school staff's professional and private lives

New research concludes that college students who use Facebook and other technology platforms to proclaim their awesomeness -- rather than, you know, connecting with their inferiors other human beings -- exhibit classic signs of narcissism.

Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server. We are really excited to open source this project as a part of Facebook's open source initiative, and we hope it will be useful to others building real-time web services. Check out the announcement on the Facebook Developer Blog. You can download Tornado at tornadoweb.org.

As part of Facebook’s open source initiative, the company is today releasing the web framework that powers the real-time functionality of recently acquired FriendFeed as an open source tool.

The app uses either your photos or e-mail history to organize your various social worlds into distinct groups.

There are ways to be more efficient on social networking site

With Facebook playing a starring role in the revolts that toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, you might think the company’s top executives would use this historic moment to highlight its role as the platform for democratic change. Instead, they really do not want to talk about it

This Friday is Data Privacy Day, an international effort by governments, businesses and advocacy groups to raise awareness about the importance of staying in control of personal information. A key part of controlling information has always been protecting it from security threats like viruses, malware and hackers

Responding to the requests of page admins, Facebook has finally given Facebook Page admins the ability to unmerge their business’ Facebook Page with their Facebook Place Page.

Using the connections between friends on Facebook, an intern at the company has created a remarkable map of the world.

Facebook Nov. 15 will launch a Webmail application to challenge Google's Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and other messaging solutions.

making connections where none previously existed

Researchers downloaded 3.5 million profiles to see how accounts are used to send out spam.

Wagner's Ring related to Zuckerberg's "The Social Network”

very clever

The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.

With more than 500 million people now on Facebook, it’s inevitable that you’ll be friended by someone you know, but with whom you don’t want to share your online life. Once you’ve accepted them as a friend, how do you avoid them without the awkwardness of unfriending them?

Get Informed
Keep up with the latest news about privacy policies on Facebook.

« Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)

Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.

Apple wants to rule the world, Google is in danger of losing its way, Microsoft is the underdog and Facebook is the most strategically open platform on the internet.

One Graph To Rule Them All?

What You and Your Nonprofit Should Know About Facebook Changes

How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change

As I've been digging deeper into the data I've gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I've been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged.

Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.

The emails tell recipients that the passwords on their Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them to click on an attachment to obtain new login credentials, according to anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc.

In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only - no one else even had access), now seemingly wants to compete with more open social networks like the microblogging media darling Twitter.

danah boyd, SXSW, March 13, 2010

[This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk]

Citation: boyd, danah. 2010. "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity." SXSW. Austin, Texas, March 13.

Facebook Purity, a browser add-on that removes those annoying quiz and application notifications from your Facebook home page. The effects are subtle—don’t expect a major makeover—but definitely worthwhile.

Operators of Web site dedicated to those who seek social-media death with dignity say that Facebook is taking a more Hippocratic approach to the idea of killing one's online identities with a few keystrokes. They say the social-networking giant has killed off their access to Facebook. Called Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and modifying privacy laws as necessary for the online era.

Facebook and other social media sites have invaded college admissions in a big way. But the great rush to use social media also raises questions about privacy and appropriate relations between administrators and students. Desperate applicants might attempt to improve their admissions chances by "friending" counselors. Conversely, counselors might use social media profiles to search for red flags on certain candidates or to assemble information for targeted recruiting pitches. In 2008, a company created false Facebook sites for many universities in hopes of grabbing personal information for marketing purpose

One of the big problems is how we converse. Typing still leaves something to be desired as a communication tool; it lacks the nuances that can be expressed by body language and voice inflection. "Online, people can't see the yawn," says Patricia Wallace, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth and author of "The Psychology of the Internet."

Musician who asks her fans for ideas, artwork and remixes and makes vBlogs calls to mind Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush

The new chief of MI6 has had his personal life made public thanks to his wife's Facebook page. It's another example of how the world's biggest social networking site can be used to reveal a bit too much information.