facebook privacy

The FTC has officially penalized Facebook a groundbreaking $5 billion, the largest in FTC history. Facebook will also have to submit to new restrictions, as well as a modified corporate structure that will hold the company accountable in decisions made about users’ privacy. 

A complaint coming with an expected $5 billion settlement between Facebook and the FTC will say that Facebook improperly allowed advertisers to use phone numbers users used for two-factor authentication to target ads.

Facebook has agreed to a $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its numerous “privacy missteps." Once it goes through, this would be the largest FTC fine for a major technology company – and a huge chunk of cash for the world’s biggest social network.

Facebook users may want to think twice before adding a phone number to two-factor authentication. Users are complaining that there's no way to delete the phone number from the account or prevent friends from looking you up by phone number. And Facebook has been doing it for years.

Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. Facebook's third-party API practices are once again under scrutiny after an investigative report showed Facebook gave companies access to private messages. Facebook says users gave permission for the access but that API guidelines are already under review.

Facebook's leadership structure looks a bit different now -- but even users that don't care about the who's who of Facebook could see the effects as the company creates teams for privacy tools and blockchain technology. The change creates three divisions for Facebook, each with a number of different teams.

As you click around Facebook, the social media network tracks whether your views are liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between, as well as your political party. Find that level of tracking creepy? There's an option to remove both labels inside the settings. Here's how.

A federal judge has again dismissed Facebook's request to throw out a lawsuit that claims the social network's suggested photo tags tool breaks an Illinois law that prevents storing biometric data without consent. The suit seeks $5,000 for every resident in the system.

During testimony to a U.K. Parliment committee, former Cambridge Aanlaytica employee Brittany Kaiser says she's "almost certain" the number of Facebook users with compromised data is more than 87 million, describing the ad tech industry as "wild west." She named at least two other apps designed to track data.

Cambridge Analytica's use of purchased data mined from a third-party app is drawing scrutiny to Facebook's privacy practices. So what should users know about the mess that follows?

Facebook found a bug that saved discarded draft videos shot on the platform with a webcam, but says those videos will be deleted from the platform's data.

In light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is pursing stricter enforcement of its privacy rules regarding advertisers.

Facebook confirmed that it has been tracking Android users' call and text history, but says the feature is only used when users give permission to sync their contacts.

Officials in France and the Netherlands are saying Facebook hasn't done enough to keep individuals informed about how it uses their data.

Worried about your Facebook privacy? Then you need to check out the social network's new profile security guide: Privacy Basics.

Facebook privacy is once again in the spotlight after the social network admitted to tracking its users’ locations in order to offer up suggested friends.

Facebook is set to face a privacy lawsuit regarding its photo-tagging feature after a judge rejected the social network’s request to have it dismissed.

Facebook is reportedly testing a new feature that will alert you when someone is suspected of impersonating your account.

Facebook is under fire for privacy violations in Europe, after Austrian Maximilian Schrems gained thousands of supporters for his class-action lawsuit.

Facebook doesn't think it's a problem, but your friend list isn't as private as you think it is.

This video, called Social Media Experiment, makes it all too clear how easy it is to know a lot about you.

If you have nothing better to do, give yourself a refresher on Facebook security through this new game.