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. 

It's not just what you tell Facebook about yourself!

‘People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want’

I was reading Facebook's revised terms & "privacy" policy this morning, and it specifies that FB is allowed to collect the names of apps and the names of files on any device you log in from. Kudos to the EU for persuading FB to admit it.

Facebook thrives on data, prodding users to provide it with their memories, cherished moments and relationships.

Consumer Reports explains how Facebook tracks consumers across many websites, gathering data even if you who don't have a Facebook or Instagram account.

Internal emails also reveal plans by Facebook to pass data on single Facebook users to companies selling dating services or organisations that wanted to target single people with ‘political’ advertisements. The documents, marked confidential, reveal a secret programme by Facebook’s ‘Growth Team’ to collect and exploit data from customers with Android mobile phones. Their disclosures come only a week after a critical report by a UK parliamentary committee investigating disinformation and fake news, called for independent regulator to oversee Facebook and other social media companies.

Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook.

Well, this sounds familiar.

UK lawmakers have accused Facebook of violating data privacy and competition laws in a report on social media disinformation that also says CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed "contempt" toward parliament by not appearing before them.

Facebook collects more information on more people than almost any other private corporation in history. And it gave dozens of companies more intrusive access to that data than it ever disclosed.

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.

As Facebook colonized the rest of the web with its functionality in hopes of fueling user growth, it built aggressive integrations with partners that are coming under newfound scrutiny through a deeply reported New York Times investigation. Some of what Facebook did was sloppy or unsettling, includ…

A new report on the social network's data-sharing arrangements has lawmakers calling for action.

Facebook’s crack down on non-consensual ad targeting last year will finally produce results. In March, TechCrunch discovered Facebook planned to require advertisers to pledge that they had permission to upload someone’s phone number or email address for ad targeting. That tool debuted i…

Move comes after Facebook exploited loophole to harvest data about apps installed on people’s iPhones

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed i…

Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata analysis of 3 key platforms (Messenger, Whatsapp & Instagram). They will make money by tracking your relationships and social groups. They will make that information easily accessible to law enforcement.