Facebook defends its data collection and sharing activities by noting that it's adhering to a privacy policy it shares with users, but activity isn’t limited to pages or posts.

Facebook can still access your personal information by making "Shadow Profiles" using data that has been collected from third-party providers and other resources.

I wanted to know more about what information Facebook has on me after the Cambridge Analytica news -- so I downloaded my data.

The misuse of personal information from as many as 50 million Facebook user accounts is setting off alarm bells with lawmakers and privacy advocates. What does Facebook know about you, and who has ...

Discover the steps to download your Facebook data on desktop and mobile, ensuring you have a backup of your photos, messages and account activity.

Facebook's privacy controls are extensive and can be challenging to use. Although using them won't necessarily stop your friends from passing along to others sensitive information you've entrusted ...

The data includes your Facebook personal messages, photos, status updates and which advertisers have your contact info, among other data points.

Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people to ...

Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US midterms, as well as about the integrity of the voting process, according ...

That Facebook collects data about its users has never exactly been much of a secret. But the recent cloud of controversy hovering above the company — sparked by a wave of reports about how ...

After report shows H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct gave tens of millions of people's personal financial information to tech companies, senators call for criminal charges.