Facebook, reeling from a scandal involving the misuse of 50m users’ private data, has moved to tighten up its privacy rules and make it easier for people to manage how their information is used and shared. Reports earlier this
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Mark Zuckerberg is making it easier to tear digital pages out of your Facebook. But that doesn’t mean he wants to. At first glance, it’s a sincere reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Under the rubric
Facebook is heading toward its worst month since May 2013 after an analyst report warned of a temporary pullback in advertising and the US Federal Trade Commission confirmed it’s investigating the social
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Timothy Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, tweeted up a storm on Thursday, reassuring Internet users that they could reassert control over their data – and the Web’s future – after the Cambridge
Facebook has denied that the company secretly logs the calls and messages of individuals using Android mobile devices, following media reports and user complaints. In a blog post, the company said that logging
Public concern about Facebook’s power in society – and in politics – has skyrocketed in the wake of revelations that users’ data was analysed by a UK-based marketing firm and used to construct highly targeted political
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for stronger privacy regulations that prevent the misuse of data in the light of the controversial leak of Facebook user information. Cook called for “well-crafted” regulations that
Elon Musk is hopping on the #DeleteFacebook digital bandwagon. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX tweeted Friday that he wasn’t aware there was a Facebook page for his rocket company. After being asked by a
Is it time to give up on social media? Many people are thinking about that in the wake of revelations regarding Cambridge Analytica’s questionable use of personal data from over 50m Facebook users to support