The Federal Trade Commission is set to announce on Wednesday that Facebook Inc has agreed to a sweeping settlement of significant allegations it misha...
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly approved an approximately $5 billion settlement with Facebook, suggesting a lengthy investigation into the...
Your social media could reveal a lot more about you than you think. Say, for example, whether you have a medical condition. In a new study, researc...
'Forwarded as received' is one of the most common statements on WhatsApp messages probably intended to quash any doubts in the recipient's mind that i...
With a multibillion-dollar settlement looming for Facebook over user privacy violations, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg met with U.S. lawmake...
Alphabet Inc’s Google is set to roll out a dashboard-like function in its Chrome browser to offer users more control in fending off tracking cookies...
Australian political parties are using voter email addresses to find matching social media profiles then combining them with the country’s compulsor...
Facebook Inc broke Canadian privacy laws when it collected the information of some 600,000 citizens, a top watchdog said on Thursday, pledging to seek...
Facebook Inc on Wednesday blew past Wall Street profit estimates in the first quarter and set aside $3 billion to cover a settlement with U.S. regulat...
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the ...
Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts and pages linked to Indian political parties or the Pakistani military for what the company described as "co...
Facebook intentionally breached data privacy and competition law and should, along with other big tech companies, be subject to a new regulator to pro...
Facebook and other big tech companies should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to tackle the spread of fake news, the abuse of users’ data a...
Facebook has launched German initiatives to defend election integrity and examine the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), its operations chief sai...
When a young person turns 18, in most countries they are considered adults, liable for their mistakes and misdeeds. 2018 was the year social media an...
In 2018, technology firms such as Facebook and Google faced more scrutiny and negative press over their handling of data breaches and online speech. T...
Facebook came under fire on Tuesday from lawmakers from several countries who accused the firm of undermining democratic institutions and lambasted ch...
An American app developer who gave confidential documents about Facebook to UK lawmakers during a visit to London says he did so because he panicked a...
After spending much of this year apologizing for Facebook's many missteps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was defiant in an exclusive interview with CNN Business...
Britain’s information watchdog has referred Facebook to the lead regulator under Europe’s data regime to look at how the social network targets, m...