Facebook and MySpace could be required to hold data about every person users correspond with The Home Office has defended proposals to require social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to retain details of their users' movements on the internet. It was reported today that social networking sites could be required to hold data about every person that users correspond with via the si...

As Sam Leith asks, why? “The main problem with our security services monitoring social networking sites is that it will be a colossal waste of time. Facebook is the Reuters of inanity: a news agency for stuff nobody wants to know. “Dave is playing on Facebook. Dave is a bit annoyed. Dave is going for a

Via Iain, this. Internet users will be protected from abusive bloggers and malicious Facebook postings under proposals to set up an independent internet watchdog, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. The body, made up of industry representatives, would be responsible for drawing up guidelines that social networking sites, the blogosphere, website owners and search engines would be expected

Paedophiles are increasingly using social networking sites and other message boards to distribute and sell sick images of children, a watchdog warns today.

Predicting which companies and software are going to prosper and which are going to fizzle and disappear is a notoriously unreliable business, but it certainly looks at the moment as if Facebook, Myspace and Bebo are pretty well entrenched as the major social networking sites not only in the UK but also in many other

I can easily see this happening! Click on the image for a full-sized view of this projected version of all that will remain of social networking sites after Jacqui "Jackboots" Smith and her comrades have done their worst…The comments at Old Holborn's site are also worth a look.

Few MPs are using social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace to communicate with their constituents, according to research from the University of Plymouth and Bournemouth University.

The majority of Europe's youngsters who go online are regular users of social networking sites such as Facebook, according to a recent Eurobarometer poll. The European institutions launched a campaign yesterday (9 February) to raise awareness of the threats posed by social networking websites such as Facebook for minors under 18. Meanwhile, a new report highlights new risks associated with mob...

And you thought they couldn’t go any further when it comes to keeping us under surveillance?From Auntie:Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the UK government under proposals to make them keep details of users' contacts. The Home Office said it was needed to tackle crime gangs and terrorists who might use the sites,but said it would not keep the content of

SCOTTISH police are monitoring social networking sites in a bid to prevent the riots across England from spreading north of the border.