The past week's series of revelations about the misuse of Facebook user data by the election firm Cambridge Analytica has led to widespread calls for users to delete their accounts. Prominent supporters of deleting Facebook now include WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Read More

The story of how those data made the journey from Facebook's servers to Cambridge Analytica's is now widely known. But it is also widely misunderstood. (Many people were puzzled, for example, by Facebook's vehement insistence that the exfiltration of a huge trove of users' data was not a “breach”.) … Read …

SAN FRANCISCO — The contemporary internet was built on a bargain: Show us who you really are and the digital world will be free to search or share. People detailed their interests and obsessions on Facebook and Google, generating a river of data that could be collected and harnessed for … …

Chicago – It's a scandal of privacy, politics and an essential ingredient of business success – public trust. Facebook is confronting a costly, embarrassing public relations debacle after revelations that Cambridge Analytica may have misused data from some 50 million users to try to influence elections. Read More

Who's to blame for the leaking of 50 million Facebook users' data? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke several days of silence in the face of a raging privacy storm to go on CNN this week to say he was sorry. He also admitted the company had made mistakes; …

Over the past few years, Facebook has created a digital community of more than two billion people. Now the tech giant has set its sights on the real world and begun work on creating a community known as Willow Village. The town will include housing, retail outlets, parks, and more. …

Is it time to delete Facebook? Some companies say yes. Tesla, Sonos, and Mozilla start the ball rolling. Sonos Chief Marketing Officer joins us in the C-Suite to explain why. Read More

That's because Facebook has an “addictive” design that rewards you for sticking around, according to “digital detox” evangelist Tanya Goodin. Last weekend, it emerged that Facebook had given away personal info belonging to 50 million users. It sparked a major campaign for people to bin Facebook for … Read More

Neither Facebook nor Google responded to emails asking whether they viewed the Cliqz research as representative. A larger study of web trackers by researchers at Princeton University in 2016 produced similar results, with Google Analytics and other Google trackers taking the top five places, followed … Read More

I spent the evening with a friend who is far bolder than me. Having deactivated his Facebook profile three years ago, he upped the ante this week by deleting his Instagram account. Even more drastically, he plans officially to delete his long-dormant Facebook account—the last vestige of his serfhood in … …