It’s a shame Facebook can’t seem to keep their priorities straight when it comes to problems with the social-networking service. Instead of attempting to fix something important (like the rather surprising third-party capabilities over your Facebook ID), they decide you may appreciate it a little more if you didn’t have to look at pictures of [...]

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It’s not anything new to hear that our privacy and personal information can be invaded easily through the medium that is Facebook, but it’s always good to know what the various causes of these invasions are so as to reduce any harmful outcomes. Well, the Wall Street Journal has investigated Facebook apps – in particular [...]

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If you’re putting sensitive information into the internet its only natural that you should always be as careful and wary as possible, but it seems that Twitter users need to be a little more on guard than usual after a new hack has been discovered which can be used to see your private messages. Gary-Adam [...]

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Google are feeling the force of the European law once again. First they upset Germany with street view and now the Czech Republic are moaning about privacy issues. The Office for Personal Data Protection complained that Street View captured images beyond those accessible from the street and said that Google had failed to register as [...]

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Facebook seems to be encouraging stalking with its latest feature. It is said to be testing out a new subscription feature that allows users to receive alerts any time a specific ‘friend’ ‘takes certain actions’ on the social network. Therefore with this new addition to Facebook along with your updates, you’ll get your friends updates. [...]

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Not all is well for Facebook. The social networking site has upset Germany’s data protection office. German officials have begun legal proceedings against the popular site after they discovered that the names and e-mails of people who weren’t members of Facebook were being stored. Johannes Caspar, head of Hamburg’s data protection office wrote in a [...]

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The hype associated with Google’s new social networking tool Buzz has turned a little sour on the tech giant. After responding to privacy criticisms of the service with an apology and an upgrade, Google is still being sued in America for failing to implement the privacy standards in the first place. The federal court of [...]

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If you’re one of the many who protects your identity with the password “doctor”, “ferrari”, “peanuts”, “startrek” or the particularly ambiguous “password123″, no longer will you be able to sign up to a new Twitter account with your usual catchphrase. In the face of new hacks and bots roaming the net to steal passwords to [...]

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