are ads that include identification of users’ friends who’ve “liked” the advertiser. Facebook has agreed to pay $20 million to end the...

disclosure of government-related user-data requests: For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests...

As Bloomberg reports, the argument is part of a case in which an employee from the Hampton, Virginia sheriff’s department says he was...

reported by InsideFacebook based on an SEC filing: We are also party to various legal proceedings and claims which arise in the ordinary...

Timelines (plural). It obtained federal trademark registration for its name. Then, Facebook came along and used that term for its, well,...

reporting that a German court has invalidated a decision of the German privacy regulator, which opposes Facebook’s real names/identities...

Rembrandt Social Media, a patent-holding company, filed the suit last week in Virginia, saying that Facebook infringed on two of its...

Rather than say the company’s plans themselves led to the controversy, co-founder Kevin Systrom has painted it all as a misunderstanding,...

stemming from Sponsored Story ads. When launched, the Sponsored Story ads didn’t protect user privacy adequately, which outraged a...

The agreement — unlike the $22.5 million agreement with Google announced yesterday — doesn’t call for any monetary penalty. It does,...

according to Bloomberg. This time it’s Norway seeking to determine whether Facebook has violated its privacy rules. Norway’s...

Pinwheel, which is still in private beta, is probably going to be forced to change its name. TechCrunch reported yesterday that a court...

increased their spending trying to educate (read: influence) Congress in the second quarter, according to filings made under the Lobbying...

Senate hearing on Wednesday. According to The Hill, Facebook will send Rob Sherman, its Washington DC-based Manager of Privacy and Public...

Last month Facebook settled the “Sponsored Stories” lawsuit brought on by 5 Facebook members and the total numbers have been disclosed...

Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is considering letting those under the age of 13 on the site.  Since day one, Facebook has...

didn’t do as well as expected, though it made lots of people at Facebook very wealthy. Then came news that Facebook’s underwriters...

A Sponsored Stories lawsuit was allowed to proceed against the social media giant as Facebook failed to have it thrown out.  Today, the...

Today, on the day of Facebook’s IPO, Bloomberg reports that Facebook (FB) is being sued for $15 billion for improper user tracking. The...

accused earlier this year of running “likejacking” campaigns on Facebook, has settled separate lawsuits with both Facebook and the state...