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...
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 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...
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...
Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in ta...
Google desperately wanted to copy Facebook's success on social media. Instead it may be left with a version of one of Facebook's biggest failures. ...
Alphabet Inc’s Google will shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after announcin...
New European Union data protection laws take effect on May 25 to protect users' online information, in what Brussels touts as a global benchmark after...
Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook user data is shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp ...
Facebook Inc (FB.O) is entering the dating game, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, planning a dating service to matchmake millions of p...