Read about the saga of Facebook's failures in ensuring privacy for user data, including how it relates to Cambridge Analytica, the GDPR, the Brexit campaign, and the 2016 US presidential election.

After reports that a data analysis firm surreptitiously acquired data on 50 million people, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook was partially to blame.

MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee announced it will meet in two weeks to demand answers from the executives at Facebook, Twitter and Google on the issue of data privacy ...

The lawsuit targets billionaires including Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings—along ...

Social media giant Facebook, above, announced Tuesday it would delete the facial recognition data of one billion users. Above, the Facebook sign in page is seen on a computer screen in this ...

Consumer Reports looks at the new Facebook design and features. The social media giant said it would add encryption to Messenger, but Consumer Reports says privacy concerns remain.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday publicly addressed the growing criticisms against his company for its failure to safeguard user privacy. In a column in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg ...

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Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s vice president of global marketing solutions, says the company hasn't seen a huge change in consumer behavior amid widespread concerns over its handling of data and ...

WhatsApp on Friday said it was postponing an update to its privacy policy following concerns and calls from users to switch to other encrypted apps like Signal and Telegram.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has previously noted, this raises a number of privacy concerns. By integrating Facebook and WhatsApp data, for example, Facebook could learn more about your ...

It raises regulation and privacy issues, however, and marks a significant shift from the independence which was granted to the platforms from Facebook — Instagram's Kevin Systrom and WhatsApp's ...