Facebook is a popular online social network. Its main founder is Mark Zuckerberg
launched the service in 2004 with his fellow Harvard students.
- 48 million social media users’ data leaked by yet another analytics company
A private data search service scraped several social media sites for user information, then left that data sitting in a publicly accessible repository without a password. Some 48 million people’s personal data was leaked.US News - Russia threatens to block Facebook
Facebook has until the end of 2018 to comply with Russia's data storage law, or be banned like messenger service Telegram or professional networking website LinkedIn.Business News - Facebook says it tracks non-users but doesn't ‘sell people's data’
If you have logged out of your Facebook account – or have never even had one – the US social network giant is still keeping close tabs on you, tracking every virtual move, and there’s nothing you can do about it.World News - Facebook, Twitter may be forced to register as ‘foreign influence agents’ under new Aussie law
Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, as well as their users, may be forced to register as foreign influence agents in Australia due to the lack of clarity in the new legislation, the country’s Labor Party warned.World News - Facebook’s facial recognition tool faces class action suit over mishandling biometric data
Facebook's misuse of their users' biometric information could potentially amount to billions of dollars in damages after a federal judge greenlighted an Illinois class action suit against the firm’s facial recognition feature.US News - Cambridge Analytica-linked Kogan collected Facebook users’ private messages
The developer of the quiz app Cambridge Analytica used to collect the data of some 87 million Facebook users also had access to their private messages, according to a warning sent by the social media giant to affected users.US News
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