I was surprised to see the Facebook SDK being loaded in the network tab on my blog when I don't have any Facebook buttons. It turned out to be coming courtesy of Disqus. No wonder Facebook knows everywhere you go!

Belgian security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire claims he discoved a method to figure out the phone numbers associated with many Facebook accounts, even when these phone number are not set

Facebook claims that no one can intercept WhatsApp messages, not even the company and its staff, ensuring privacy for its billion-plus users. But new research shows that the company could in fact read messages due to the way WhatsApp has implemented its end-to-end encryption protocol.

Since 2012, Facebook has been working with data brokers to acquire even more information on its users. According to a report from ProPublica, this information can include a user’s income, restaurant habits, and credit card activities.

Combine third party data with what Facebook already knows about its users from using the social network and it is hard to think of any piece of information the company doesn’t have about a person.

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People regularly ask how Facebook, with its massive data management costs, can offer its service for free. The answer is simple, the product is you.

show-facebook-computer-vision-tags - A very simple Chrome Extension that displays the automated image tags that Facebook has generated for your images

Find out what data Facebook stores about you. Join us in our fight for a social network that respects our right to privacy.

Class-action lawsuits target the biometric privacy policies of several Internet giants

Social media giant Facebook has confessed to giving the personal details of thousands of its users to the British government this year.

Google recently announced that it would start including individual users' names and photos in some ads. This means that if you rate some product positively, your friends may see ads for that product with your name and photo attached -- without your knowledge or consent. Meanwhile, Facebook is eliminating a feature that allowed people to retain some portions of their anonymity on its website.

These changes come on the heels of Google's move to explore replacing tracking cookies with something that users have even less control over. Microsoft is doing something similar by developing its own tracking technology.

Since Donald Trump's election, many in the tech industry have been concerned about the way their skills—and the data collected by their employers—might be used. On a number of occasions, Trump has expressed the desire to perform mass deportations and end any and all Muslim immigration. He has also said that it would be "good management" to create a database of Muslims, and that there should be "a lot of systems" to track Muslims within the US.

Website:
https://www.facebook.com/messages/

Example:
Embedded ads as seen here, http://imgur.com/a/KRPqr.

Issue:
This page intentionally randomizes the class of this element, and uses other methods to obfuscate the ad from targeting.

you'are right, FB changed again their implementation.

The official support site for AdBlock by getadblock.com, where you can find answers, get help, and report ads and bugs!

Any information you see below is visible to anyone on the Internet through normal use of the Facebook Graph API. Facebook apps used by you or your friends might see more. Learn more about how to control what you share.

This toolbox is for Facebook users who:

• Want a better understanding of what information Facebook makes public about them

• May wish to continue using Facebook, but on their own terms and with greater control over their information

• Need tools that go beyond the limitations of Facebook's privacy settings

Facebook changes their code daily. The folks who maintain the "Facebook unsponsored" userscript are doing their best to keep up. You can help! If you start seeing sponsored posts again, please report it on the Greasy Fork "Facebook unsponsored" forum. In the meantime, be sure keep your userscript updated so that you'll have the latest countermeasures every time a new version of the userscript is released.

When browsing a public page or event on facebook without being logged in, an annoying popup banner gets displayed. Log in or sign up, it says. And if you click "not now", it will not vanish but stay obstrusively on the bottom of the page, banning your view from the site on nearly half of

Facebook Privacy List is a filter subscription for Adblock Plus. It helps protect your privacy by blocking Facebook plugins and scripts (such as the

I have never had a Facebook account. There is a Facebook account called "Richard Stallman", but it is an impostor.

Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or Instagram) contributes to surveillance of that person. Please don't post any photos there that include me, and I suggest you avoid posting photos of anyone else too.