Facebook’s privacy issues have been called into questioned numerous times over the past month, and the latest discovery by Ars Technica won’t curry the social network any favor.

The photos deleted by users will still remain on FB’s servers and anyone can access the images with a direct URL. [Read More]

Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met — yet through Facebook he knew what her older brother looked like, that she was from a tiny island off the coast of Washington and that she had recently visited the Space Needle in Seattle.

“I knew all these things about her, but I’d never even talked to her,” said Mr. Balcomb, a pre-med student in Oregon who had some real-life friends in common with the woman. “At that point I thought, maybe this is a little unhealthy.” [See & Read More]

When Facebook isn't intentionally destroying your privacy, it's doing so unintentionally. That even goes for founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Two years ago, the Facebook CEO's once-private pictures were exposed to the world after the social network changed its privacy defaults. [Read More]

The Federal Trade Commission announced its settlement yesterday with Facebook over privacy violations dating back to December 2009, and the social network looks to have emerged from the situation a ‘roided-up slugger who lives to swing another day. 

The charges against Facebook included publicizing private content, failing to delete content deleted by users, and worst of all, over-sharing data with third party apps, the latter of which it most likely leveraged for profit. [Read More]

Whether a response to Google+’s lauded privacy settings or just the snowballing criticism over the last few months, Facebook will begin to rollout new controls in the coming days. [Read More]