The new documentary “The Great Hack” captures how Facebook’s cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy. But it doesn’t prove claims in ...
At $5 billion, the fine the FTC is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given to a technology company, easily eclipsing the second largest, $22 million for Google in 2012. The lon...
British Airways is facing a 183 million-pound ($229 million) fine over a breach that compromised information on half a million customers — the biggest penalty to date under new, tougher regulations an...
British lawmakers issued a scathing report Monday that calls for tougher rules on Facebook to keep it from acting like "digital gangsters" and intentionally violating data privacy and competition laws...
U.S. lawmakers' grilling of Google CEO Sundar Pichai may have sounded like a broken record, but it amplified the prickly issues facing tech companies as Democrats prepare to take control of the House ...
The data firm at the centre of Facebook's privacy debacle is closing its doors, according to a published report. Cambridge Analytica has been linked to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Th...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a US congressional oversight panel on Wednesday that regulation of the social media industry was "inevitable", as he revealed his own data was included in the persona...
Apologetic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told senators on Tuesday it had been "clearly a mistake" to believe the Trump-linked data-mining company Cambridge Analytica had discarded data that it had harv...
Get ready to find out if your Facebook data has been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge...
Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg declared that Facebook for the most part depends on its users’ data and so to avoid all the advertising, users may well have to pay for that. She was speaking earlier...