The two-year old Snowden-NSA spying revelations have fueled a growing climate of hostility toward Google, Facebook and other US tech...

For those with online reputation crises, the internet is a hostile and damaging place. When one is attacked online, it can negatively...

Just like Google, Facebook faces a wave of investigations and potential sanctions across Europe for its privacy policies. A series of...

Another front on Facebook’s battle with privacy watchdogs opened today, as a court in Vienna, Austria, started proceedings on a class...

European privacy regulators have again criticized Facebook’s privacy policy and reiterated that it violates EU law. That’s according to...

A new report (and below) issued under the authority of the Belgian Privacy Commission concludes that Facebook’s updated privacy policy...

The European Union’s antitrust authority today approved Facebook’s acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp, clearing the way for the...

Under Vladimir Putin Russia has taken many steps backward toward its repressive, Cold War past. It’s apparently taking another by...

European regulators have reportedly sent an unusual “second wave” of questions to a range of companies as part of its antitrust review of...

Can a Facebook Like be owned? No, according to a ruling by a Florida federal judge who Wednesday turned aside a lawsuit by a woman...

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems wants Facebook to pay for breaching European data protection law, and has filed a lawsuit against...

Usually, companies don’t want to be subjected to regulatory scrutiny. However this time, it appears, Facebook is actively soliciting...

There is a very disturbing trend in the world of corporate terms and conditions. Consumers (and small merchants) are increasingly being...

settled a class action lawsuit for $20 million. The suit claimed “Sponsored Stores” ads misappropriated Facebook users’ likenesses...

faces a potential class action lawsuit (“Matthew Campbell v. Facebook Inc.”) for allegedly violating the US Electronic Communications...

announced back in August — are taking effect today. In a blog post today, the company goes out of its way to explain that the update...

Facebook recently settled a “Sponsored Stories” class action lawsuit for $20 million. That suit argued that Facebook had misappropriated...

Facebook announced updates to its Data Use Policy this week, Reuters is reporting that the social network is considering applying its...

“sponsored stories” legal settlement, Facebook is following court orders by updating the documents that explain how the company collects...

released its Government Data Requests report, covering the first half of 2013. The country with the most requests by far is the US. India...