Twitter, Facebook and others must take on a 'stronger duty of care' or face tighter state controls, Sadiq Khan is…
The British web inventor has called for affordable internet access, while questioning the online control exercised by big tech players
Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset was rendered unusable for more than 15 hours after the company forgot to renew a…
Facebook's tools use technology and interface patents from the once-popular BlackBerry Messenger platform, claims the Canadian company's lawsuit
A major change to the way the European Union taxes companies such as Google and Amazon is coming within 'weeks',…
No evidence the Russians used social media to influence British vote to exit European Union, says Facebook
Irish data regulator confirms WhatsApp has still not proposed measures to settle European data sharing concerns
The social network must also delete all the data it has collected on Belgian citizens who aren't users - or…
Facebook doesn't give users enough information before granting itself broad access to their personal data, finds a Berlin regional court
'Put it down'. Campaign by former Facebook and Google staffers to convince youngsters to take a break from tech
Facebook to provide new privacy tools and information as 'largest ever' team aims to ensure company is complaint with GDPR
Yann LeCun steps down as boss of Facebook's artificial intelligence group, replaced by a former IBM executive
WhatsApp Business promises to overhaul the experience for SMBs
The latest preview version of Skype introduces Private Conversations, using the same secure protocol used by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and…
More personal posts and less commercial content will be promoted on users' Facebook Newsfeed, CEO says
Facebook denies claim by German researchers that there is any secret way into WhatsApp groups chats
The government may impose a tax on companies such as YouTube and Facebook to 'incentivise' them over taking down militant…
The preliminary ruling, ahead of a final decision next year, could mean limits on how Facebook collects and processes European…
The CNIL has given WhatsApp and Facebook one month to bring themselves into compliance with French data protection law or…
ANALYSIS: Scammers are spoofing the Facebook user's account names to engage in phony Messenger conversations to phish for information. Here's…
Facebook brings engineers, tech and sales under one roof in London
A flaw in a new polling feature could have been manipulated by a malicious user to delete images of their…
The planned removal of a 2015 US law could mean more charges for large businesses and start-ups, not to mention…
What went wrong? Major outage across the world sees WhatsApp offline for at least half an hour
Facebook's last serious challenger Myspace is still going, although much diminished from its heyday in 2007
ANALYSIS: Experts on international terrorism turn from describing how terrorists use social media to reporting the level of chatter on…
Jupiter cable to stretch 8,700 miles between Asia and US and will carry 60Tbps of data per second
A legal opinion and a vote by MEPs could signal more restrictions on what social media and digital communications firms…
But the tracking feature has already raised concerns over safety and privacy
The headset will cost $199 and be released early 2018