This week Facebook admitted to wrongly sharing the personal data of thousands of app users with thousands of developers. The issue here isn't as simple as Facebook selling your personal information to ...

The personal details of more than 500 million Facebook users — including full names and phone numbers — were posted to an online forum earlier this week. Private data that was not listed in public ...

Even if you haven’t created an account on a social media site, they might have a hidden profile with more details than you’d believe. Sneaky, right? That’s why you should say no thanks when an app ...

Facebook is the most popular social media platform in the world, and for good reason. It helps many of us stay in touch with friends, family and neighbors, and it makes doing so easier than ...

Social network settles year-long lawsuit with $9.5m "settlement fund" It's finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising programme that Facebook launched two years ago. The social network has ...

Attackers are distributing an information-stealing Trojan disguised as a PDF reader that steals Facebook and Amazon session cookies as well as sensitive data from the Facebook Ads Manager. Over the ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

As part of its effort to steel its platform against threats to the 2020 election, Facebook will try surfacing accurate voting info in a new place — on politicians’ own posts. Starting today, Facebook ...