In 2006, Facebook unveiled a “controversial feature” – sharing changes users made to their profiles with the users’ friends. This was the feature that made Facebook, well…Facebook, the change that ...

Companies spend millions of dollars to get an edge from the data they own. However, all too often their efforts are out of balance. Data is hoarded without a clear purpose, and not nearly enough time ...

Headlines this week following Elon Musk’s fight with Meta should be a serious reality check for 3 billion messaging users across WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Here’s what you need to know. Do these ...

Photographers turning to social networks like Facebook and Twitter to promote their work may be losing the legal rights to their photos because the sites are deleting the images’ metadata. Those sites ...

Backblaze has removed Facebook tracking code (also known as an advertising pixel) accidentally added to web UI pages only accessible to logged-in customers. The US-based cloud storage and online ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent ...

Several Facebook users who downloaded an archive of their Facebook data in the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal discovered this week that the social network's mobile applications have ...

We now know that every day, U.S. phone companies quietly send the government a list of who called whom and when -- “telephony metadata” -- for every call made on their networks, because of a secret ...