How firms you have never interacted with can target your Facebook
Advertisers are seemingly able to access accounts with no input from the user
Facebook and Google must be held to account, TV networks say
Australian TV lobby says digital giants do not ‘contribute in any meaningful way towards cost of the content they monetise’
Americans want tougher rules for big tech amid privacy scandals, poll finds
After Cambridge Analytica revelations, 83% of Americans call for companies like Facebook to face harsher penalties for breaches
The tech titans must have their monopoly broken – and this is how we do it
Facebook, Google and co pose a problem to society, not least because of data misuse and extreme content. Only some level of regulation will do, writes Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable
Vince Cable calls for break-up of Google, Facebook and Amazon
Recent scandals have changed web giants from heroes to villains, says Lib Dem leader
Market power wielded by US tech giants concerns IMF chief
Christine Lagarde feels ‘too much concentration in hands of the few’ does not help economy
Will Democrats be bold and pledge to break up tech monopolies?
Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple have accrued so much power, it has damaged American democracy, says Ross Barkan, a journalist and candidate for the New York state senate
Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law
Company moves responsibility for users from Ireland to the US where privacy laws are less strict
How Europe’s ‘breakthrough’ privacy law takes on Facebook and Google
Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is forcing big changes at tech’s biggest firms – even if the US isn’t likely to follow suit
Facebook among tech firms to sign ‘digital Geneva convention’
Signatories including Microsoft, Arm and Trend Micro agree not to take part in cyber-attacks
Facebook to start asking permission for facial recognition in GDPR push
Users will be asked to review information about targeted advertising but some say opting out is deliberately difficult
The Guardian view on Facebook’s business: a danger to democracy?
Editorial: The conceit of data mining firms is that they could win elections by moulding electorates based on new identities and value systems – a process accelerated by the echo chamber of social media
Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised, MPs told
Former Cambridge Analytica employee gives evidence before parliamentary committee
Facebook admits tracking users and non-users off-site
Statement comes as company faces US lawsuit over facial recognition feature launched in 2011 and planned to expand to EU
I was one of Facebook’s first users. I shouldn’t have trusted Mark Zuckerberg
I remember when, at Harvard, my friends and I heard about a new website that promised to enhance our lives. Fourteen years later I see how wrong we were