Protecting Your Privacy Beyond Facebook
Safeguarding information about what you do online goes far beyond trying to lower your profile on one internet service. Legally, you […]
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What You Don’t Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data
Facebook tracks even nonusers as they surf the web, and House members grilled Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, about the […]
User Privacy Isn’t Solely a Facebook Issue
During Congressional hearings about Facebook’s data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg drew an important […]
Five things we learned from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook hearing
The CEO’s privacy is as vulnerable as ours, and the social network faces a regulation battle. His data was sold to […]
The Guardian view on Grindr and data protection: don’t trade our privacy
The idea that people’s HIV status and physical location should be used by advertisers is unsurprising in the tech world […]
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
Using a tool that Facebook offers its users, our columnist found out more than he wanted to know about the […]
More than 600 apps had access to my iPhone data
While Facebook desperately tightens controls over how third parties access its users’ data – trying to mend its damaged reputation […]
Fact Check: What Mark Zuckerberg Said About Facebook, Privacy and Russia
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, is testifying before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday to answer questions about the social network’s […]
How Mark Zuckerberg Blamed Facebook’s Problems On Openness
Facebook’s first reactions to the Cambridge Analytical headlines looked very different from the now contrite promises Mark Zuckerberg made to […]
How to check whether Facebook shared your data with Cambridge Analytica
Facebook has started the process of notifying the approximately 87 million users whose data was harvested by the election consultancy […]
Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages
Facebook has said that political data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested the public profile data of up to 87 million […]
Is It Time for an Data Sharing Clearinghouse for Internet Researchers?
Today’s Senate hearing with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will start a long discussion on data collection and privacy from Internet companies. […]