Facebook is making some major changes to its privacy settings. Now is a good time to look over your social media accounts and check all of your settings to see how much data is out there. Facebook is working to make privacy settings easier to find on a single page. …

Though Facebook gets the attention because of a recent privacy gaffe, the social network is far from alone in collecting massive amounts of data on you to help marketers sell you stuff. Google, for one, also does extensive tracking to power its advertising engines. And many other websites and apps …

It is easy to overlook the incredible power of Facebook, Sunil Madhu, CEO of Socure, told Karen Webster. But with two billion users – a billion or so of whom check in with the social network once a day – the reality, he said, is that what happens on Facebook …

The action comes on the heels of revelations about how Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, gained access to the personal data of about 50 million Facebook users. Missouri's probe is one of a handful of similar actions by state and … Read More

In an interview conducted last summer, Zuckerberg talked to Freakonomics host Stephen Dubner about user privacy and sharing data. Zuckerberg said the right balance to strike is when the social media giant is "getting yelled at by both sides equally." Facebook seems to have accomplished that with the … Read More

Last summer, months before Mark Zuckerberg was feeling the intense pressure of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the Facebook CEO said he knew his site's users cherish their privacy, and he expected his company to safeguard their personal information. In an overheated trailer in Chicago, … Read More

Facebook's boss has a close friendship with the Microsoft founder, who is three decades his senior and one of Zuckerberg's heroes. Zuckerberg's formative computing years, in the Nineties, came when Gates was on top of the world and when Microsoft was not only the world's most powerful technology … Read More

PHOENIX – Users have become more and more aware of Facebook tracking your personal data, with many now taking steps to better secure their information on the social media site. Most recently, online users have become more aware of the fact that Facebook keeps track of what it thinks your …

It's been roughly two weeks since the New York Times broke the story about how the data of 50 million Facebook users was captured and used without their consent by Cambridge Analytica as part of an effort to ensure Donald Trump won the 2016 election. And it doesn't look like …

Here's how a data firm helped Donald Trump get elected as president. We have the FAQs. USA TODAY. Facebook and social media are exploiting our evolutionary need for approval. That's one reason the Internet and WiFi aren't making us smarter. AP FACEBOOK STOCK DROP A F FILE USA CA. Read …