Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information.

When news broke that Facebook had suffered a breach affecting at least 50,000,000 users, Facebook users (understandably) began to widely share links to articles about the breach. The articles were so widely and quickly shared that they triggered Facebook's spam filters, which blocked the most popular stories about the breach, including an AP story and a Guardian story.

Earlier this month, Common Sense Media released its report, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences.

The tweet shows police officers standing over a man who appears to be a migrant sitting on his sleeping bag. The caption suggests the officers are about to take away the man’s blanket for the second time in the middle of winter.

Andrew Donovan, 35, was jailed for sending indecent images to a child. He has a history of offending and contacted boys by Facebook and then by Kik.

A new report says the site has become a breeding ground for conspiracy theorists and white supremacy.

The arrest raises questions about whether YouTube is taking appropriate precautions to ensure its most vulnerable talent isn’t exploited or abused.

While we pine away for that perfect Snapchat filter or track our likes on Instagram, the mobile phone has become a vortex of social media that sucks us in and feeds our narcissistic tendencies. Or so it would seem.

Democracies should establish a single infrastructure for the digital identity.

If you can read this, it means that you’re on the internet. You are one of the millions (or possibly billions) of internet users who are browsing the World Wide Web at this very moment–and that means you should be concerned about online privacy.

Over the past few months, consumers have grown weary of the overwhelming amount of emails, prompts, and mail that require they review brands’ privacy policies and agree to new privacy terms. Many of these are ‘all or nothing’ agreements where if you do not agree, the entire service in unavailable.

Three recent developments illustrate why so many Americans feel that their privacy is increasingly threatened by institutions using technology. Each raises troubling issues.

Besides the obvious dangers this feature could pose for younger users or those unfamiliar with the capabilities of location-sharing, who really wants their friends (or parents for that matter) knowing where they are at all times?

UK – Almost eight in 10 ( 79%) of internet users are concerned about aspects of going online with 58% saying they are worried about data or privacy, according to research from Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Facial recognition is actually becoming a usable reality and not in the scary way we’ve seen in sci-fi movies.

New Mexico lawsuit alleges companies illegally collected and tracked children's personal information.

No matter what your child's age, as soon as you OK a cellphone, set rules for behavior and personal safety. Decide on privacy settings and child safety controls offered through your wireless provider and the phone itself.

Alibaba’s Fliggy online travel agency and Shiji, a hotel information systems manufacturer, have rolled out a facial-recognition system for hotel check-ins at about 50 hotels in Hainan Province, China.

Limiting online access used to be the main parenting strategy to protect kids from internet hazards like cyberbullying and sexual predators. But research suggests that teaching them how to avoid these risks in the first place is a smarter and safer approach.

A bogus article recently appeared online, claiming that the former Westlife star appeared on Ireland AM to promote a product called ‘Bitcoin Revolution’.