December 23, 2019

Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number

Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.

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March 05, 2019

Facebook criticised for misuse of phone numbers provided for security

Facebook admits it's using numbers supplied for 2FA for more than security, and you can't turn it off.

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December 28, 2018

How to protect your Facebook account: a walkthrough

We walk you through the important settings you can change and behaviors you can implement to lock down your privacy on Facebook. 

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September 12, 2018

Younger Facebook users 4 times more likely to delete app, study shows

They also appear to be more privacy-wary, with 64% changing their settings, comparing to just a third of older users.

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July 04, 2018

Facebook accidentally unblocks people

It's fixed now, thankfully: be it airheads who post baloney or stalkers, all blocked users deserve to STAY blocked.

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July 03, 2018

Facebook gave certain companies special access to customer data

What do Mail.ru, Nissan, Spotify, and Nike have in common? They were all afforded temporary extensions to access private Facebook data API.

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May 30, 2018

Facebook battles tiny startup over privacy accusations

Is there no end to Facebook’s petty humiliations? It is now the turn of an obscure startup called Six4Three to cause the company trouble.

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April 04, 2018

Those Facebook videos you thought were deleted were not deleted

Facebook's blamed a bug. Let's wait and see what other critters crawl out of those data archives many of us have been downloading!

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March 29, 2018

Firefox add-on limits Facebook’s tracking of you

Firefox's Facebook Container extension keeps your Facebook data, well, contained.

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