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It’s time to get rid of the Facebook “news feed,” because it’s not news
"Facebook's highly personalized algorithmic curation of its users' newsfeeds falls in a legal gray area with respect to CDA 230. As you know, CDA 2…
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Thai Website Shutdowns Soar After King's Death
"Daphne Keller at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society said internet companies doing business in countries with laws restricting speech know they w…
Bloomberg Law: AZ Phone Privacy and Facebook Terror
Lance Rogers, a legal editor for Bloomberg BNA, discusses why The Arizona Supreme Court just ruled that a man didn’t lose his expectation of privacy in a smart…
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WhatsApp to Share User Data With Facebook
"Thursday’s changes likely can’t be applied to data users have already shared with WhatsApp, said Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washin…
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Facebook Can’t Win Against Ad Blockers, and Here’s the Proof
"Narayanan concludes in his post that Facebook’s anti-ad-blocking campaign is doomed, at least if it continues in the current vein of acting as if the soci…
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Facebook Has Difficult Road to Make Ads Unblockable
"“Facebook engineers could try harder to obfuscate the differences. For example, they could use non-human-readable element IDs to make it harder to figure…
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Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends—which could be a privacy disaster
"“Using location data this way is dangerous,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University, via email. “People need to keep their visits to…
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Family of ISIS Paris attack victim sues Google, Facebook and Twitter
"“[Social networks] can censor more or less anything they want and it also have incredible abilities to leave up as much as they wants to leave up,” said R…
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US Cops Are Asking Facebook to Wiretap More Chats Than Ever Before
"As we keep moving our lives online, criminals do the same, so we can expect that police will follow and investigate crimes online. But the latest governme…
Facebook is at the center of a huge privacy controversy. For once, it isn’t Facebook’s fault.
The Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice, the European Union’s closest equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, has just made a key finding in a court…
Facebook's new digital assistant 'M' will need to earn your trust
Facebook’s announcement that it is testing a digital assistant called “M”means that each of the “big five” technology companies is now in the digital assistant…
Facebook wasn’t great at respecting privacy in the first place. It’s gotten much worse.
Facebook’s privacy practices have always been controversial. It doesn’t charge its users–because its users are the product. The company sells information on its…