Last year, prosecutors in Manhattan held Facebook up by the ankles and shook out personal data on 381 users. A judge last week said that it’s up to the targeted users to complain about privacy invasion, not data-repository Facebook. But how are they supposed to stand up for their rights if they’re never told about the sealed warrants to begin with? 
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Facebook privacy case to be referred to European Court of Justice
The High Court in Ireland has referred the data-sharing case of Austrian law student, Max Schrems, to the European Court of Justice.
Does Facebook’s Slingshot commit true imagicide? Or is it another Snapchat?
“Disappear forever” didn’t mean much when Snapchat said it. Neither Snapchat nor Facebook’s newly released Slingshot stops anybody from taking a screenshot or snapping a photo of the receiving device with another camera, for one thing. 
Is a Facebook death threat a true threat? Supreme Court to decide
The US Supreme Court will re-examine a case in where a man made death threats against his ex-wife on Facebook, giving us a federal decision on whether threats made online need to be made with real intent, or whether they just have to be taken seriously by a reasonable person who’s threatened.
“Kind of creepy” personality test crunches your Facebook verbiage
The tool analyses language for signs of extroversion (“party!!”) introversion (“computer”) and more. This could be a dream come true for targeted marketing and a hell on earth for privacy. 
Facebook to let advertisers see where you’re surfing
Like many services already do, Facebook’s now going to mix in our browsing histories with the advertising stew. It’s also introducing a tool that lets us see (and edit) the dossiers they keep on us, so we can finally get a glimpse into why they think we like what they seem to think we like. 
Facebook stupidity leads to largest gang bust in NYC history
Social media was the perfect place to brag about four years of alleged stabbings, assaults, robberies, shootings and murders, via hundreds of Facebook updates, direct messages, mobile phone videos, and calls made from Rikers Correctional Facility to plot the deaths of rival gang members.
Medical centre staff post woman’s STD diagnosis on Facebook
A woman whose medical record was posted to a Facebook group named “Team No Hoes” is suing the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, two employees and a former boyfriend who allegedly talked the healthcare workers into posting the screenshot. 
Facebook troll jailed for posting he was ‘glad’ teacher was murdered
A Facebook troll has been jailed after posting he was “glad” a much-loved UK teacher, Ann Maguire, got “stabbed up”.
Facebook’s new audio feature won’t snoop on us, it says
Listening in and identifying your TV and music is opt-in only, Facebook’s security head honcho said, and no, he wouldn’t want it in his pocket either if it was recording everything going on around him.