The alert appeared to have been based on a bit of confusion over Facebook's "social ads," a system that was launched around 2007 and displayed members' profile pictures to their friends in ...

Facebook is revamping profile pictures to make them safer ... used in catfishing attempts or on "hot singles near you" style ads. Aarati Soman, a product manager at Facebook who worked on the ...

Google is following Facebook by announcing that it will start incorporating users profile names and pictures into ads their friends might see. The announcement comes as part of a new terms of ...

And now?—Now you need to opt out of Facebook Ads. Facebook rolled out "Social Ads" a few years ago, which allows your name and profile picture to appear in advertisements displayed to your friends.

When you change it, Facebook automatically starts an album for your current and previous profile pictures. While you can't stop users from seeing your current profile picture, you can block people ...

Facebook has been regularly removing fake accounts in its fight against disinformation, but the company's latest announcement presented a twist -- artificially generated profile pictures.

With the new Facebook profile, you are allowed to highlight five images across the top of your page. These images are randomly selected from all of the pictures in your Facebook photo albums.

Facebook is introducing new protections for profile pictures for users in India, in a bid to stop people from copying, sharing, or otherwise misusing their images. Users who elect to guard their ...