Facebook is launching a range of new tools in an effort to “put people in more control over their privacy” in the buildup to new EU regulations that tighten up data protection. The changes come after a troubling two weeks for the company, which is battling with the fallout of …

The announcement is part of Facebook's efforts to answer the firestorm of criticism that's arisen in the wake of revelations that data from 50 million people was accessed by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica without their permission. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify in … Read More

Facebook is rolling out a series of changes to give people better control of their privacy settings and data. The company's redesigned security settings let people control what personal information the social network and third-party apps keeps. Facebook used to display security tools and settings across … Read More

When a Harvard-aged Mark Zuckerberg bragged to a friend over instant messenger that he'd obtained “over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses” thanks to the “dumb fucks” among his peers who had submitted them, he may not have known that such data stores would one day become Facebook's bread … Read More

Mozilla had been working on the “Facebook Container” add-on for Firefox for a number of years, but accelerated development in the wake of 50 million profiles having private information harvested from the social media platform. “Facebook has a network of trackers on various websites. This code tracks … Read More

Playboy said Wednesday that it would be exiting Facebook and deactivating each of its accounts. Cooper Hefner, Playboy's chief creative officer and son of the late Hugh Hefner, called Facebook "sexually repressive." Calls to delete Facebook have taken momentum in the wake of the data sharing … Read More

It is to be hoped that John Rothenstein's diary (Report, 26 March) will also tell how he persistently refused the gift to the Tate, from the German-Jewish art historian Rose Schapire in gratitude for her safety in Britain, of a collection of German Expressionist paintings, pre-eminently by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Read …

The country's Home Affairs and Law Minister, K. Shanmugam, asks Facebook's vice-president of public policy for Asia-Pacific, Simon Milner, a seemingly apposite question about how Facebook executives have answered previous criticisms of its ways in the UK parliament. Milner gets up on his high … Read More

Mr. Zuckerberg has been under pressure to appear before Congress as Facebook confronts a controversy over data privacy after Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, improperly harvested the data of 50 million Facebook users. The revelations have sparked a furor on both sides of the … Read More

If you've been watching the news over the past few weeks, you've undoubtedly heard about the latest Facebook scandal, involving the potential misuse of Facebook user data by consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. For some, this is an indication that their online data isn't safe; the #DeleteFacebook … Read More