Thread by @jeremyburge: "For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and theresable that. Facebook 2FA numbers are also shared with Instagram which prompts you 'is this your phone number? […]"

Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment

Facebook has changed its story after initially trying to downplay how it targeted teens with its Research program that a TechCrunch investigation revealed was paying them gift cards to monitor all their mobile app usage and browser traffic. “Less than 5 percent of the people who chose to part…

Social media giant agreed on Tuesday that location data was ‘one of the factors’ it used but on Wednesday said no, not any more

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.

Headphone manufacturer Bose has found itself in a major legal tangle for allegations of illegally collecting data from its users.

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.

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.