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Mobile data optimization startup Onavo has been acquired by Facebook in a deal that beefs up its Internet.org initiative to promote universal Internet access worldwide, and gives the ...

Mwah ha ha. People can't hide from you on Facebook any more (unless they block you).

A discovery about Facebook's official Android app once again puts into question if the social network's developers truly *get* security and privacy.

As Symantec describe on its blog, when its developers tested its new Norton Mobile Security product against some of the world’s most popular Android apps, they were disturbed to see a warning message claiming that the Facebook Android app leaks personal information without the device owner’s knowledge:

Facebook today announced that it is bringing hashtags to its service, letting users add context to a post, indicate that it is part of a larger discussion, as well as discover shared ...

Are you worried that anyone can learn all about you on the Internet? You should be.

You’ve probably been using for Facebook for years.

Thus your profile has all kinds of likes and apps you probably don’t remember adding.

That’s why spring is the perfect time to look at your page and try to make it new again.

Here are 3 easy steps that will improve your privacy and your Facebook experience.

Today at Facebook HQ, Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled a new look for news feed that uses a "mobile-inspired" consistent design across devices, lets you drill into specific content type feeds, and offers larger images.

After examining parts of Facebook’s source code, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and a German data protection regulator have both confirmed that the social network has ...

No, Graph Search doesn't affect your privacy settings, but it surely makes digging up information about you really easy. Now's a good time to review what you're sharing and how you're sharing it. Read this article by Sharon Vaknin on CNET.

Facebook announced plans to make its privacy control settings easier to find this month, and now a series of new menus and notifications has begun to roll out to users of the social ...

The Albania Pirate Group has had its Facebook page shut down by the social network, after stolen passwords were exchanged between 600+ members.

Don't want the entire Facebook-using and -abusing population to see your friends list? You could set your friend list to private, but fat lot of good that will do, given a researcher's discovery th...

Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.

A Facebook security bug exposed users’ personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts...

A Facebook spokesperson tells me the bug ===> has been live since last year, and was discovered last week. <===

The Telegraph is hacked on Facebook and Twitter by the Syrian Electronic Army.

Pete Etchells and Chris Chambers: Which is more dangerous, technology changing our brains or scientists mutating into priests?

Susan Greenfield argues that the new 'Facebook phone' will lead to a dangerous loss of privacy that will impact on brain function.

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Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured.

Facebook security officials said the company was compromised through the use of a java zero day exploit that bypassed the sandbox.

Facebook's new search engine serves up the kind of data that cyber scammers love