If you don’t want to delete your Facebook account, here’s how to cut back
Facebook tests the limits of people’s tolerance for use of private information, as well as over regular changing of privacy […]
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Whistleblower says ‘cheating’ may have changed Brexit vote outcome
Canadian whistleblower Chris Wylie implicated B.C.-based AggregateIQ in his testimony to a U.K. parliamentary committee about misuse of data targeting […]
Facebook Previously Failed To Keep Privacy Promises
Noel King talks to Tim Wu, who was a senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission in 2011, when the […]
Zuckerberg Hits Users with the Hard Truth: You Agreed to This
After another privacy bombshell, Facebook tells horrified users, “it’s explained right there in the app.” In its current iteration, Facebook’s […]
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Said to Agree to Testify Before Congress Over Data Privacy
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, has agreed to testify in Washington over how his social network handled people’s data, according […]
Will news organizations face Facebook-fueled blowback for using third-party tracking on their own sites?
“The sins are different; but they are still sins, just as apples and oranges are still both fruit. Exposing readers […]
Investigators complete seven-hour Cambridge Analytica HQ search
Investigators from Britain’s data watchdog have spent nearly seven hours searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica. Eighteen enforcement officers […]
Facebook logs SMS texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts
Leaving the social network after Cambridge Analytica scandal, users discover extent of data held. As users continue to delete their […]
How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google
The contemporary internet was built on a bargain: Show us who you really are and the digital world will be […]
EU heads of state issue warning over Facebook data case
The 28 EU heads of state issued a warning shot on Thursday (22 March) over allegations that 50 million Facebook […]
What’s being done with your data: Experts ask, shouldn’t someone get this under control?
Now that Facebook, Google and Amazon know pretty much everything about us, how they’re using that information is drawing the […]
How Private Is Your Internet Data?
After the recent revelation that political analysis firm Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the data of 50 million Facebook accounts, many […]