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Material Gives Insight Into Company's Views on Data SecurityA batch of documents meant to be kept under court seal lay bare Facebook's strategic brokering of access to user data to reward partners...

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg pushed back Wednesday against emails showing the social media giant offering Netflix and other popular apps preferential access to people's data even after it had...

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. Parliament committee accused Facebook on Wednesday of cutting special deals with some advertisers to give them more access to data as it released 250 pages worth of documents...

Facebook on Wednesday said it considered charging application makers to access data at the social network. Such a move would have been a major shift away from the policy of not selling Facebook...

American Civil Liberties Union wants to know what govt asked for, and why court refused The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a motion to find out what went on in a court case in...

We all want a "perfect" babysitter. But can we trust AI to comb through years of social media posts and label people with a "score?"

In the latest in a long line of SNAFUs, it seems Facebook has found a new way to inadvertently torment us: resurfacing old chat messages.

A British MP on Tuesday claimed Facebook knew about potentially malicious Russian activity in 2014, long before such activity becomes public, during a parliamentary hearing where international...

What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.

Did you help spread the viral scowling Pop-Tart™-deprived kid photo last week? Can't be helped, mom said, but using it to raise cash was "lame."