
Facebook bug allowed some advertisers to access other Facebook Analytics app data
Facebook says it fixed a bug on August 24 that had allowed users with both an app and a Facebook Ads account to access the Facebook...

Facebook recruits former HP marketing lead as its new CMO
Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox with the company’s new CMO, Antonio Lucio Since Facebook CMO Gary Briggs announced his plans to...

Facebook to reveal country of origin behind Pages
In late June, Facebook announced several measures to bring more transparency to Pages and their associated ad campaigns. Those included a...

Facebook cuts off access to API platform for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive apps
Rokas Tenys / Shutterstock.com Facebook reports it has cut off access to its API platform for hundreds of thousands of inactive apps that...

How to reach consumers while protecting their privacy
The debate surrounding probabilistic versus deterministic cross-device tracking is nothing new. But with the rapidly evolving online...

Facebook receives $664,000 UK privacy fine, which could have been $1.9B under GDPR
Facebook has received a £500,000 fine ($664,000) in the UK resulting from the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal. The fine was...

Report: Feds widen scope of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal probe
targeting millions of its users by data firm Cambridge Analytica, according to a report in The Washington Post. Five anonymous sources...

Facebook alerts 800K users that people they’d blocked may have been unblocked the 1st week of
For the second time in less than a month, Facebook is having to alert users that their accounts may have been negatively impacted because...

Facebook’s ‘Keyword Snooze’ feature will let users hide posts with specific words
Facebook is looking for new ways to give users more control over the content they see in their News Feed. Today, the company announced it...

Facebook’s latest data faux pas: app analytics reports sent to the wrong people
Facebook’s data security issues have turned into a nonstop game of whack-a-mole. After having to alert 14 million users that their...

Facebook’s head of communications & public policy is leaving the company
Facebook’s head of communication and policy, Elliot Schrage, is resigning after leading the company’s communications and policy teams for...

Facebook says privacy settings for 14M users were switched to public due to bug
If you’re keeping a list of Facebook apologies for 2018, you can now add “apologizes for accidentally setting 14 million users privacy...

Facebook shared user data with Chinese company identified as posing a national security threat
LJZ / Shutterstock.com Raise your hand if Facebook shared user data with you — because the list keeps growing. Days after learning the...

Taking aim at Facebook & others: Apple says it is ‘shutting down’ tracking from Lik
Apple further entrenched its strategic positioning as privacy protector against the ad tech ecosystem at WWDC, its annual developer...

Facebook faces more scrutiny, this time for sharing user data with device makers
Facebook is under fire once again for mishandling user data, this time charged with sharing information with at least 60 device makers,...

Facebook’s latest on fake news, misinformation campaigns & user privacy
Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the EU Parliament on Tuesday to address the company’s mishandling of user...

Facebook says it has suspended 200 apps for possible misuse of data
LJZ / Shutterstock.com Since suspending Cambridge Analytica for using an app to exploit user information nearly two months ago, Facebook...

It’s business as usual for Facebook advertisers as Cambridge Analytica crisis proves inconsequ
We’re less than two months out from Facebook’s infamous announcement that it was suspending Cambridge Analytica for exploiting user data....

Facebook unveils new analytics features, including a tool to track the omnichannel journey
new analytics features — including a tool to track customer journeys through multiple channels — on Tuesday at its F8 developer...
























