The biggest problem with Facebook is all the shootouts, unsolved mysteries, and occult strangling attacks at its massive Menlo Park campus. Worry no more: the San Jose Mercury News reports Facebook will privately fund a police officer all on its own.

Here's the difference between where you live, and where people like Eric Schmidt, Guy Kawasaki, and Tim Draper live: when their houses get tagged by vandals, it becomes a federal problem.

The tech industry is very white. The rest of California isn't always so white. The gap between the startup crowd's success and a flagging national economy can be tense enough—but according to this report, local police are targeting hispanic drivers in Facebook's backyard. That won't help.

Ephemerality machine and $800 million on-again-off-again moral panic generator Snapchat sees some heavy stuff. The casual pics you send (or receive) might be just the evidence police are looking for—so Snapchat put together this handy manual for requesting your data.