As Facebook faces an audit over its storage of information, Channel 4 News talks to the 24-year-old Austrian student who has gone head to head with the social networking giant.
Sharing our lives on social networks is now commonplace, but what happens when we are gone? Channel 4 News finds people are thinking more carefully about their digital legacy.
As Facebook users complain about yet more changes to the social media site, Channel 4 News takes a look at the promised “new way to express who you are” and finds we might even learn to like it.
The Government says it will not be seeking further powers to close down social media or telecoms networks following riots across England.
Libyans are free to text, call and blog again after a long telecommunications blackout, in a powerful symbol of how the rebels are ringing the changes.
We need to preserve the protection of anonymity but fight for a culture of respect. Or none of this will be fun anymore.
A new $800m investment in the social networking site that allows people to speak to the world in 140-word messages, has pushed Twitter’s value to more than $8bn.
A secret network which looks and works like Facebook is being used by world leaders to chat in real-time. Channel 4 News reveals how it’s shaping the way G20 nations communicate in 2011.
Google’s new social networking project aims to move people away from global leader Facebook, but does it do the job?
A self-proclaimed former computer hacker talks to Channel 4 News about cyber crime in 2011, the role social media is playing and why he thinks hackers could become “more dangerous than al-Qaeda”.
Channel 4 News learns an international computer hacking group may have targeted the 2011 UK census, as a 19-year-old is arrested in Essex on suspicion of masterminding activity by LulzSec.
Joanne Fraill is jailed for eight months for contacting a defendant through Facebook. The Solicitor General tells Channel 4 News the case had to go to trial to protect jury integrity.
Jon Snow
Jon Snow blogs on the case of Joanne Fraill, the juror who faces jail for researching a case and contacting a defendant on Facebook. Have the courts caught up with the fact that it is nowadays the norm for people to connect with one another online?
A top barrister tells Channel 4 News that courts have to trust jurors to follow the rules, despite the temptations of technology.
A juror who allegedly contacted a defendant through Facebook, leading to the collapse of a £6m drugs trial, faces contempt of court charges.