In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users' privacy by making public too much of their personal information ...

Aside from the plethora of scummy privacy practices Facebook uses to track your every move on its myriad platforms, the company’s also come up with plenty of sneaky ways to keep tabs on you off its ...

After years of legal back-and-forth, Facebook users across the US are now beginning to receive settlement payments from the long-running “Internet Tracking” class-action lawsuit. The case stems from ...

In today’s hyper-connected world, social media giants like Facebook are constantly collecting data about your online and offline activities. From the websites you visit to your exact location, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet - or at least on Facebook. Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you block the social network ...

Austria’s data protection authority has found that use of Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law as personal data was transferred to the US where the information was at risk from ...

The scale of Facebook’s data harvesting and tracking has been exposed this year, by whistleblowers and Apple’s privacy crack down. Now Facebook has been rated “the worst company of the year” in a new ...

A stark new warning for almost all iPhone users, as Facebook is suddenly caught “secretly” harvesting sensitive data without anyone realizing. And worse, there’s no way to stop this especially ...

Serious bummer for anyone who thought abstaining from a Facebook profile would help them live that blissful off-the-grid life. The company announced Thursday that it is going to begin to expand its ...

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