As you've probably noticed if you're on Facebook, the service has become ever-more aggressive about encouraging you to celebrate the birthdays of those in your social graph. It reminds you of your friends' birthdays via notifications (“Wish them the best!”) and allows both those with a birthday and their … Read …

Facebook has been in recent talks with several high profile US hospitals in an attempt to glean anonymized patient data for a now-defunct project. The company aimed to collect obscured personal details — including illness and prescription info — in an attempt to match it with user data it collected …

If you are one of 2.2 billion Facebook users worldwide, you have probably been alarmed by the recent coverage of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a story that began when The Guardian revealed 50 million (now thought to be 87 million) user profiles had been retrieved and shared without the consent … …

In an interview with NBC News on the Today Show, Sheryl Sandberg said that if users want to opt out of Facebook's data-driven advertisements they would have to pay for it. “We don't have an opt-out at the highest level,” Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, said in the interview on …

Scandal-hit Facebook has pressed pause on a plan to combine patients' medical data with information on them from their social networking activity. According to CNBC, the company was as recently as last month talking to the likes of Stanford Medical School about setting up a data-sharing agreement … Read More

Facebook has admitted the company has been secretly deleting messages sent on Messenger by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “After Sony Pictures' emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives' communications,” says a Facebook spokesperson in a … Read More

Facebook has been using a secret tool to delete messages sent by its executives from the inboxes of their recipients, without disclosing the deletions to the recipients – or even recording that there was ever a message there in the first place. If you send Mark Zuckerberg a Facebook message, …

Facebook's plans to share anonymized data with health organizations have been put on pause in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to CNBC. The project, which is said to have bee run under Facebook's mysterious Building 8 lab, has only made it into the planning phase. The aim … …

However, according to CNBC, the plan has been “put on pause” in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle. “This work has not progressed past the planning phase, and we have not received, shared, or analyzed anyone's data,” an unnamed Facebook spokesperson told CNBC. “The medical … Read More

You'd think recent events might have dulled Facebook's rapacious lust for data. But now comes news, from CNBC, that The Social Network™ tried to acquire access to patients' medical records. The network's report says Facebook approached “several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data … Read More