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Facebook Password Privacy Motion Blocked By House Republicans

Remember last week when news broke of shady employers requesting passwords to employees’ personal Facebook accounts? While litigation over the p...

The Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords Debate Moves To The State Level

Employers asking for prospective employees’ Facebook passwords: it’s been on everyone’s mind lately after some recent reports that t...

Employers Asking For Facebook Passwords Should Be Illegal, Says One Senator

Should it be illegal for employers to ask prospective employees for their Facebook passwords? One U.S. Senator thinks so. Senator Richard Blumenthal (...

Facebook Not Suing Over Employee Password Scandal

When Facebook came out on the side of employees and job seekers who did not want to reveal their passwords to prying employers, people cheered. The co...

Employer Facebook Password Requests To Get DOJ Investigation?

Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who announced last week that he was drafting legislation to prohibit employers from demanding Facebook login information of...

Facebook: Employers Asking For Facebook Passwords Alarming, Distressing

It’s been a big topic in the news lately, one that particularly troubles privacy activists and your average Facebook user alike: Employers, gove...

Groupon: We Don’t Want Employees’ Facebook Passwords

We’ve reported several times about the whole ordeal with employers asking the Facebook passwords of job candidates. It’s been a hot, contr...

Employee Facebook Passwords: Another Complication

The scandal about employers asking for employee and interviewee Facebook passwords is growing fast. We talked about a few examples of this disturbing ...

Picture Passwords Let You Unlock Your Device By Drawing On A Family Photo

In a blog post published Friday, Microsoft talks about their latest technology currently in Developer Preview – and it has to do with security. ...

Facebook Troublemakers Beware: Hacking Someone’s Account Is Identity Theft

The decision against a California juvenile charged with identity theft has been affirmed by an appellate court. The identity that he was convicted of ...

The Most Used iPhone Passcodes Are Depressingly Simple

In my mind, there are only three good reasons to use a passcode lock on your smartphone. The first is obviously security – you don’t want ...

PlayStation Network Not Hacked, Says Sony

Earlier today, it was reported that just two days after initial restoration of the PSN had begun, Sony’s network may have been compromised once ...

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