After a few odd encounters, we decided to get some answers from Facebook.

Facebook has been buying data on its users from third-party providers since 2012 and makes it pretty hard to opt out.

Cambridge Analytica may have used Facebook’s data to influence your political opinions. But why does least-liked tech company Facebook have all this data about its users in the first place? Let’s put aside Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook products for a minute. Facebook has built the world’s …

"People You May Know" is both helpful and terrifying as hell.

Retailers who want to know what brought people to shop in their physical retail stores have a new tool to try. Facebook has revised its analytics tools for businesses to show how user behavior online translates into brick-and-mortar purchases.

Merci le "deep learning"

La récolte de données par Facebook - qui a toujours existé - se fait avec des procédés toujours plus sophistiqués. Et incroyablement intrusifs.

Facebook wants to make sure you know about and control the photos of you people upload, even if they don’t tag you. So today, Facebook launched a new facial recognition feature called Photo Review that will alert you when your face shows up in newly posted photos so you can tag yourself, leav…

Facebook recently started using face recognition in more ways.

Facebook appeared to track who Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes spoke to at an industry event, via the phone in his pocket. So on Friday I was at the Andrew Olle

The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look

I dug into Facebook and found everything it knows about me, and it turns out it knows more than I thought it did.

le we were at the beach one day, we met a group of people and spent several hours hanging out with them. We never exchanged phone numbers or email addresses, we didn't share much information about ourselves other than our names and where we lived, and we didn't connect on social media. I didn't even have my phone on me at the time. However, when I got back to New York and checked Facebook, I saw that two of the people we met popped up in my "People You May Know" recommendations.