Two out of five Norwegian 18 to 20-year-olds have taken naked photos of themselves, with three quarters of them then sharing the photos on social media, a survey has found.
Facebook and Google are pushing users to share private information by offering "invasive" and limited default options despite new EU data protection laws aimed at giving users more control and choice, a Norwegian government study said Wednesday.
A Facebook group for Norwegians opposed to immigration was widely mocked after members apparently could not tell the difference between empty bus seats and burka-clad women.
The political leader of the Liberals (Venstre), Trine Skei Grande, said on Thursday that she has been the victim of a witch hunt and constant harassment from a Facebook group of opponents of Norway’s new mandatory passenger charges.
Just two months after Facebook found itself in the centre of an international controversy after censoring posts in Norway, the social media giant has banned another prominent Norwegian for posting a photo that included nudity.
In the comments on the Facebook pages of two government ministers from the anti-immigration Progress Party, immigrants are called monkeys, Africans are “birthing machines” and there is implied support for “civil war”.
Police believe a man in his 20s from Tromsø used the internet to sexually exploit around 60 children. He is also charged with the physical sexual abuse of several children.
After a protracted debate on censorship and Facebook’s outsized role in today’s media world, the social media giant has thanked Prime Minister Erna Solberg for raising “important issues”.
Facebook had restored by Saturday a post by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg which it had taken down over an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing.
UPDATED: Facebook backtracked on Friday on a decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, after its block on the historic image triggered a wave of
outrage.
Facebook censorship is under fire in Norway after a well-known author and a news editor were banned from the social media behemoth for posting the icon Vietnam War photo of Kim Phuc, best known as the ‘Napalm Girl’.
The rules governing Norway’s sovereign wealth fund kept it from jumping on board when Facebook asked it to invest in the social media giant ahead of its 2012 IPO.
A young Norwegian probably thought he would gain a lot of ‘likes’ from his video of speeding through a tunnel. Instead, it cost him his driving licence.
Police studies of teenagers’ online habits have found that an increasing number of boys and girls, some underage, are being coerced into sharing compromising images.
Police in northwest Norway have launched a Facebook appeal to find the owner of a 90 gram block of hashish, which was found by a small business on the island of Hitra.
More than 80,000 Norwegians have joined the Facebook group, "Refugees welcome to Norway", which people use to share ideas on how to help refugees come to the country.
A Norwegian who threw a message in a bottle into the sea as a boy eleven years ago this week saw it reappear on Facebook after a post from the Swedish family which found it went viral.
A 19-year-old Norwegian high school student who posted a message on Facebook to demonstrate the dangers of internet virality saw it spread to more than 30,000 people over four continents and get more than 27,000 comments in less than 23 hours.
Thailand's military junta has threatened to block Norway's Telenor from bidding in the country's upcoming 4G auctions in retaliation for revealing that it was ordered to block Facebook in the immediate aftermath of last month's military coup.
Norway's industry minister has defended the country's majority state-owned telecoms company Telenor for blocking access to Facebook in Thailand on the orders of the country's new military junta.
Stian Ytterdahl, the 18-year-old Norwegian who last week tattooed a McDonald's receipt onto his forearm has done it again, but this time, he has had the receipt for last week's tattoo itself permanently inked on his other arm.
