The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.

The next versions of the iOS and the Mac operating systems will block the social network's trackers.

After a long dispute over how to produce more revenue with ads and data, the messaging app’s creators are walking away leaving about $1.3 billion on the table.​

Among them is Huawei, which some U.S. officials have called a national security threat.

Facebook is confronting EU users a new “terms of service” dialogue that denies access until a user opt-ins to tracking for ad targeting, and various other data processing purposes...

Today at our F8 conference I'm going to discuss a new privacy control we're building called "Clear History".

In your web browser, you have a simple way to clear your cookies and history. The idea...

Facebook says users own their data and touts its "download your data" tool. But the download doesn't include everything Facebook knows about you.

Since the Cambridge Analytica news hit headlines, calls for users to ditch the platform have picked up speed. Whether or not it has a critical impact on the company’s user base or bottom line, the message from #DeleteFacebook is clear: users are fed up. EFF is not here to tell you whether or not to...

Data analytics firm CubeYou uses personality quizzes and apps clearly labeled for "non-profit academic research" to aid marketers in finding customers.

The initiative also would allow Californians to sue companies that violate their request not to share personal information — another point of contention for business groups, which almost always oppose policies making it easier for them to be sued.

Who’s to blame for the leaking of 50 million Facebook users’ data? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke several days of silence in the face of a raging privacy storm to go on CNN this week to say he was sorry. He also admitted the company had made mistakes; said it had breache…

Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner's mum

Facebook bought his app for $16 billion

Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online—and even offline, wandering around the physical world—it doesn’t need to hear us to know what we like. Here are some ways to limit the amount of data Facebook and advertisers are collecting about you.

Social network instructed to delete illegally collected data or face €100m in fines after it loses case over consent and tracking

The company is actually collecting and analyzing the data of Onavo users. Doing so allows Facebook to monitor the online habits of people outside their use of the Facebook app itself. For instance, this gave the company insight into Snapchat’s dwindling user base, even before the company announced a period of diminished growth last year.

Facebook is now pointing some users to a secure wireless networking app without disclosing it's a Facebook-owned company.

The app, Onavo Protect, also tracks users' apps, how often they're used and what websites users visit.

Privacy Risks with Facebook’s PII-based Targeting: Auditing a Data Broker’s Advertising Interface