Europe’s sweeping privacy law GDPR goes into effect May 25th, and Facebook is being forced to push users through new agreements to terms of service changes required ...

Messenger has started showing a mysterious pop-up notification.

General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here's what it means, how it'll impact individuals and businesses. Read now Regulators in Ireland have proposed up to $42 million in fines for ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ahead of the GDPR, which is set to come into effect in May Ahead of the GDPR, which is set to come into effect in ...

A lawsuit, filed by NOYB, a non-profit digital rights organization led by privacy activist Max Schrems, explains how two red “pending” notification dots appear on ...

Twenty percent of all users on Facebook will fall under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation law (GDPR) in May. Facebook must ask all European users for permission to store or share their ...

Have you noticed recently how all the tech giants have quietly updated all of their privacy policies, and small updates have been pushed out to consumers via mobile and desktops? Have you caught ...

On Friday, a massive breach opened up a new front in the war on Facebook. According the the company, more than 50 million accounts were taken over by a kind of login worm, which used a series of ...

At the height of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not immediately commit to applying the European Union's General Data Protection Rules (GDPR) to the social ...

Two of the largest social media platforms have asked that the Australian government consider implementing many of the elements present in Europe's General Data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When asked why the company waited three months to inform users about the ...

Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in the European Union is inching toward making its first decision on a complaint against Facebook itself. And it looks ...