One expert questions whether any social data can ever be truly deleted. You can now easily download all of the data Facebook has stored about your profile in one ...

Reviewing your Facebook data allows you to see what personal information Facebook has collected about you, helping you make informed decisions about your privacy settings. You might also need a copy ...

The primary goal of these payments is to compensate users for the unauthorized use of their personal information. The final amount each person receives depends on how long they had an active account ...

Information belonging to 553 million Facebook users has been posted online in an incident the company says was due to scraping and not a cyberattack. Facebook IDs, names, dates of birth, gender, ...

The phone numbers and email addresses of 533 million Facebook users have been exposed in a data breach. Here’s how to find out if your data was leaked, and how to secure your Facebook account. The ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

The personal data of more than half a billion Facebook Inc. users reemerged online for free Saturday, a reminder of the company’s ability to collect mountains of information and its struggles to ...

Security concerns over Facebook have been raised yet again after a security consultant collected the names and profile URLs for 171 million Facebook accounts from publicly available information. The ...

Dr. Aleksander Kogan says he is being used as a "scapegoat." Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University researcher who collected information on millions of Americans through Facebook for Cambridge ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

Your iPhone will soon be a battlefield in the clash between Apple and Facebook. When Apple updates iOS14, its iPhone and iPad operating system, in the next few weeks, you and up to about 1 billion or ...