The cybersecurity tools, policies and knowledge to protect personal data exist – but people’s and institutions’ use of them ...

Read about the saga of Facebook's failures in ensuring privacy for user data, including how it relates to Cambridge Analytica, the GDPR, the Brexit campaign, and the 2016 US presidential election.

Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg interviewed at the company's offices in Menlo Park, Calif., on Thursday told NPR: "We did not think enough about the abuse cases." ...

After reports that a data analysis firm surreptitiously acquired data on 50 million people, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook was partially to blame.

Facebook says that when you delete your account, all your data is gone from company servers within 90 days — but it’s hard to believe that applies to shadow profile data, which exists even ...

Facebook today announced that application developers will be allowed to store user data for more than 24 hours, removing a major restriction that the company had imposed on its ecosystem for years.

Facebook is trying to correct course after a major data harvesting scandal by giving the social network's 2 billion users an easier way to manage their data. The company announced a suite of new ...

While Facebook maintains that it has properly complied with the EU's strict digital-privacy rules, Germany says Facebook has committed a data breach of the country's specific data-privacy laws.

Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. The latest: According to The New York Times Facebook gave tech companies special access to user's data.

Facebook data scandal prompts redesign of settings, privacy pages By Christopher Carbone , Fox News Published March 28, 2018 10:30am EDT | Updated March 28, 2018 11:05am EDT ...