Facebook prevents insurers from invading your privacy for their benefit One of the biggest insurance companies wants to use your Facebook profile to determine if you're a safe driver.

WhatsApp’s privacy U-turn on sharing data with Facebook draws more heat in Europe A dramatic privacy about-face by messaging app WhatsApp this summer, in which it revealed an update to its T&Cs would for the first time allow the sharing..

Today Facebook is making a major change to its name policy Facebook is finally making a long-anticipated change to one of its policies. Last year, the social media website was under a lot of heat for its policy around names. Specifically, the policy that allows Facebook to root out and report "fake" names ba Read more ... sed on a series of somewhat discriminatory and out…

Facebook's Privacy Problems Aren't Getting Any Easier in Europe A report has criticized the fact that users registered with Facebook have no meaningful choice but to accept Facebook's tracking policy.

Old Facebook Privacy Policy Hoax Returns Don’t trust your Facebook friends. There’s a viral rumor going around the popular social media site the past week that has scared users into sharing a Facebook status about privacy settings -- except it’s not true.

Old Facebook Privacy Policy Hoax Returns Don’t trust your Facebook friends. There’s a viral rumor going around the popular social media site the past week that has scared users into sharing a Facebook status about privacy settings -- except it’s not true.

Belgian Watchdog Slams Facebook's Privacy Controls Facebook is facing a wave of probes by European regulators into its privacy practices — BRUSSELS—Belgium's privacy watchdog sharply criticized Facebook, saying the social network company treated …

People In Nepal Are Letting Their Loved Ones Know They Are Safe Using Facebook Facebook introduced its “Safety Check” feature last October. In a press release, Facebook said its engineers in Japan began working on the project after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the country. The team wanted to give its users a fast and Read more ... easy way to let as many people as possible know they…

Facebook Policies Taken to Task in Report for Data-Privacy Issues A report commissioned for Belgium’s privacy watchdog on Facebook’s policies said they give users a false sense of control over data privacy, and that the company is acting in violation of European privacy law.

Facebook's Privacy Policy Breaches EU Law, says Watchdog Facebook's privacy policy violates European law, according to a study commissioned by the Belgian privacy commission, The Guardian reports.