Facebook plans to charge users £5.99 ($9) for “subscription gold” that will keep our accounts private? Outrageous!!! No, seriously, it is outrageous. But that isn’t keeping the Facebook rumour du jour from being passed around. Here’s the whole, bogus shebang: I havent had time to check it out and won't get around to it until...

Rose is a 31-year-old security analyst and hacker from San Francisco, a self-described “computer nerd” with “quirky attitudes” towards life, and an “unorthodox family.” She doesn’t like for people to know too much about her because her work makes her aware of how “under surveillance we all are,” but she also has a “flamboyant and...

Facebook knows a lot about you. If you were honest when you first signed up, it knows your real name, age, gender, location and interests – as well as what you have done on-site ever since – valuable data indeed when it comes to delivering relevant advertisements to your browser. But ad companies want more,...

As you probably heard, Facebook recently announced that it is working on a “Dislike” button at last. Well, perhaps not exactly a Dislike button, or perhaps not only a Dislike button, but something beyond just good old “Like”, anyway. And “Dislike” was definitely one of the, errr, likely and well-liked possibilities in Mark Zuckerberg’s recent...