research conducted on Facebook by researchers from Facebook, the University of California and Cornell. The research sought to investigate...

While Facebook has talked a big privacy talk for a long time, today they’ve implemented a major change. A sweeping new update is making...

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...

completing the removal of its “Who can look up my timeline by name?” search setting. Last December, the company announced the search...

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...

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

report in AllThingsD, which Facebook apparently confirmed, the company is testing — emphasis on that word — a new payments system in...

The bug came via the download your information (DYI) and gave some users additional information of their friends. Here’s Facebook’s...

disclosure of government-related user-data requests: For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests...

Those data, it has been alleged, come in large part from direct access to the servers of most of the Internet’s biggest brands: Google,...

Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it. But Twitter and Instagram have...

A recent survey conducted by the USC Annenberg Center for Digital Future and Bovitz Inc., revealed “Millennials” (those 18-35)  have a...

Custom Audiences, which enables companies to upload customer or prospect databases and target those individuals on Facebook by matching...

AdAge highlights a number of initiatives that Facebook has undertaken to both show the offline sales impact of its ads as well as to...

reporting that a German court has invalidated a decision of the German privacy regulator, which opposes Facebook’s real names/identities...

Looking for a new way to stalk find your nearby Facebook friends? According to Bloomberg, a new Facebook app is being finalized that will...

Every year at SXSW Interactive (one of the largest interactive conferences in the world), the question always comes around to which new...