Facebook, Google, and other masters of the surveillance economy have bred a virulent mutation of capitalism, which explains why they aren’t interested in addressing their many scandals

WSJ reporter Katherine Bindley found that our ability to control Facebook ad tracking is limited and that much of what Facebook claims should come with lengthy footnotes.

WhatsApp has announced that it will start sharing your phone number with Facebook. The messaging service has updated its privacy policy to indicate the changes as well as other additions to the platform, such as WhatsApp Web, desktop clients, end-to-end encryption, and voice call service.

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.

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