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Social media giants Facebook and Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo are reportedly in talks on a new reality TV show based on the star’s life.

Tracking your phone's gyroscope, scanning your messages and giving your data to third-party companies.

Facebook is giving up on its plan to create drones that beam down internet connectivity, the company has confirmed.

US teenagers are ditching Facebook in favour of platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat, a study says.

The Facebook CEO gives testimony about privacy, data protection and fake news in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Snapchat is in trouble. The stock plunged to a new all-time low, below $11 a share, after a dismal earnings report that showed stagnant user growth for the social networking app.

Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down.

At today’s F8 developer conference from Facebook, the company is focusing on privacy along with announcing some upcoming products like FaceTime competitors, a Tinder clone, and more.

It is shaping up to be the biggest Facebook event ever, with 5,000 developers flying in from around the world.

Facebook has started asking European and Canadian users to let it use facial recognition technology to identify them in photos and videos.

Facebook's 14-year-history of apologies

Case of New York company’s alleged information collection under guise of academic research echoes Cambridge Analytica scandal
 

The personal information of 87 million Facebook users may have been improperly shared with data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant has said, as it rolled out a set of new security measures.

By Dylan Curran
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look
 

Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds.

Facebook announced Wednesday that it's overhauling its security and privacy settings in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

People are being encouraged to download their Facebook data following concerns about the information the social media giant collects on its users. It seems to include phone calls, text messages and other non-Facebook activity.

A former Facebook employee has told MPs it did not try hard enough to detect when user data was taken or misused by apps built for the site.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted the giant social network "made mistakes" in his first comments since a data scandal engulfed the company.