Aside from the plethora of scummy privacy practices Facebook uses to track your every move on its myriad platforms, the company’s also come up with plenty of sneaky ways to keep tabs on you off its ...

Facebook has said that it is within its terms of service to see what users are typing even when the status or comment is never posted on the social network. The Menlo ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Yesterday CNBC broke the story that Facebook uses its platform and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- The headline is eye-catching -- "ICE uses Facebook Data to find and track immigrants, internal emails show." The story was posted Monday by the media outlet, The Intercept.

There’s a growing social and legal momentum behind the “do not track” initiative to protect online privacy, but now Facebook and Google are opposing the legislation, hinting that job losses and profit ...

HootSuite lets you create short "Ow.ly" links, share them anywhere and track their click data. Tracking clicks for Ow.ly links posted to Twitter is simple and comprehensive, but for all other ...

Facebook will now let Pages track engagement data on an Events page with Insights. Now you’ll be able to see how well your posts are trending for your upcoming birthday party. First noticed by ...

Facebook has been promising a lot of new features – from Graph Search to the new timeline – and we’re getting tired of waiting for all the goodness to roll out to everyone. A lot of people have been ...