Facebook Privacy Issues

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  Facebook Users Care Less About Privacy Than Regulators

  Facebook Inc is preparing for a record-setting fine from US regulators over privacy issues, but Wall Street shrugged at the looming penalty after the company added users and trounced profit expectations for the first quarter.

• Millions of Facebook Records Found on Amazon Cloud Servers

  A cybersecurity firm UpGuard found troves of user information hiding in plain sight on Amazon’s cloud computing servers. 

• Facebook's Zuckerberg Calls for Global Internet Regulations

  Zuckerberg’s comments mark his most visible effort so far to shape the discourse around the way the company collects information.

• Facebook Says Users' Passwords Were Visible to Employees

  Facebook disclosed a flaw that made passwords of millions of users visible to employees and said the issue has now been fixed.

• Facebook Faces U.S. Privacy Pact That Could Cost Billions

  Facebook is in talks with U.S. regulators over alleged privacy violations that may lead to settlement worth billions of dollars.

• Facebook’s Future Is Private Groups, for Better and Worse

  Relatively intimate groups are helping draw people back to the site—and facilitating scams and propaganda.

• Facebook Faces 7 Data Probes as Irish Watchdog Gets Tough

  Regulators throughout Europe are looking to increase the level of fines they issue under the EU’s new Data Protection Regulation.

• Google, Facebook Ad Sales Seen Rising Even Amid Privacy Woes

  The big political and social questions surrounding Big Tech aren’t going away.

• Facebook Faces Potential Record U.S. Fine on Privacy Violations

  The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s chief privacy watchdog, is weighing a penalty against Facebook. 

• Facebook’s Privacy Problems Get Real in Germany

  The social media giant faces ban on third-party data sharing. If this sticks, it’s ad-targeting strategy will face big issues.

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  Facebook Launches User Review, Potential Bans For Advertisers

  Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would allow users to review businesses that advertise on the social network and possibly ban those that receive the most negative feedback.

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  Facebook's Zuckerberg Long Resisted Going To Congress. Now He'll Face A 'Reckoning,' Lawmakers Say

  When Mark Zuckerberg testifies to the U.S. Congress next week, the Facebook chief executive will face off with lawmakers who have long been itching to confront him - on everything from a privacy mishap involving 87 million users to a litany of issues that have dogged the company for years.

• Facebook backs down over contact info controversy

  Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users' addresses and  mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site.Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met with howls of protest from privacy advocates.The ne...

• Now, Bangladesh temporarily blocks Facebook

  Bangladesh on Saturday temporarily blocked the social network Facebook amid demands by a radical organisation to ban the website for hurting sentiments of Muslims.No official comment was immediately available for the closure of the popular network. However, an official source on condition of anonymity said that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regu...

• Facebook changes privacy tools

  Amid mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust of its users, world's largest social networking site Facebook on Thursday overhauled its privacy controls under which the amount of information that is always visible to others will be reduced.In an hour-long news conference at its Palo Alto headquarters in California, Facebook's 26-year-old CE...