ordered Facebook to stop tracking people without their consent and to delete all the data on non-Facebook users that it said was...

Facebook was well-intentioned when it launched its Messenger Kids app for children under 13 last year. It’s ad-free, designed to be...

Amid ongoing scrutiny and ahead of the May 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline in Europe, Facebook is undertaking a...

Facebook announced today that it will be using face recognition technology to help users manage their identity on the platform by letting...

An article appearing in The Washington Post about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election says Facebook “scrubbed”...

Two years ago, Facebook began using the ubiquitous “like” buttons that publishers put on their sites to track people’s web browsing and...

New rules proposed by the European Union on Tuesday stand to change the way Google, Facebook and other digital media companies and ad...

No, Facebook isn’t getting rid of its pseudo-racial ad targeting option. No, it hasn’t decided to prevent advertisers from using it to...

Facebook didn’t pony up $22 billion for WhatsApp just for its messaging app. Facebook was exchanging one type of currency for another...

Yesterday, a court in a Düsseldorf ruled that German websites using Facebook buttons could not transfer data to the company without user...

France’s data protection authority, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), has been one of the more aggressive in...

Like Google, Facebook is under fire in Europe from privacy regulators. Today, the company said it would appeal a decision by a court in...

Facing increasingly emboldened data protection regulators in Europe and a recent judicial setback concerning cross-border data transfers,...

In reaction to the digital advertising industry’s inability to come to a consensus on how to or whether to adhere to users’ “Do Not...

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

Belgium’s privacy watchdog today accused Facebook of violating European and Belgian privacy laws by tracking people online without their...

Foursquare Tips meet Facebook Place Tips. Today Facebook introduced Place Tips, which offer a range of content, information and...

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

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

A privacy watchdog group today filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission claiming that Facebook “purposefully...