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Zuckerberg to Face Angry Lawmakers as Facebook Firestorm Rages
2018-04-09 12:40

Mark Zuckerberg will appear before US lawmakers this week as a firestorm rocks Facebook over its data privacy scandal, with pressure mounting for new regulations on social media platforms. read more

If your organization advertises on Facebook, beware of these new limitations
2018-04-09 12:34

Facebook has banned two more analytics firms, made changes to its advertising platform, and is rolling out an Unsend feature for messages.

5 Facebook facepalms (just last week)
2018-04-09 11:52

Facebook has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons, and it's only getting worse.

Malicious actors used Facebook’s own tools to scrape most users’ public info
2018-04-06 18:24

Facebook has disabled a search tool that allowed anyone to enter a person’s phone number or email address into Facebook and find their account, along with all the information that user did not...

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal
2018-04-06 16:07

Privacy advocates are up in arms after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said most of the two billion users of the social network may have had their data scraped by malicious actors using a reverse search tool.

Facebook's Sandberg Says Other Cases of Data Misuse Possible
2018-04-06 15:28

Facebook was aware more than two years ago of Cambridge Analytica's harvesting of the personal profiles of up to 87 million users and cannot rule out other cases of abuse of user data, chief...

Facebook’s new fake news strategy is… decide for yourself!
2018-04-06 12:51

Facebook is getting rid of fact-checkers and leaving it up to readers to decide what's real

Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised
2018-04-05 17:49

Facebook dropped another bombshell on its users by admitting that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information. On...

Facebook: 87M Accounts May Have Been Sent To Cambridge Analytica
2018-04-05 17:49

Social Networking Giant Also Says Malicious Actors Scraped Public ProfilesFacebook says up to 87 million people may have had their personal details transferred to voter-profiling firm Cambridge...

Facebook's Zuckerberg: GDPR Won't Apply Worldwide
2018-04-04 23:39

CEO Says Compliance Outside EU Should Be 'In Spirit' of GDPRFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social networking company is already complying with parts of Europe's GDPR privacy legislation,...