The Guardian view on surveillance: make your number unobtainable

Editorial: Google and Facebook have collected private data without oversight on a scale that no democratic government would be allowed to do. They shouldn’t be allowed either

Facebook told me it would act swiftly on data misuse – in 2015

While I traced Cambridge Analytica’s activities, Facebook portrayed the 2016 election as a big commercial opportunity, says former Guardian researcher Harry Davies

Facebook logs SMS texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts

Leaving the social network after Cambridge Analytica scandal, users discover extent of data held

Is it time to break up the tech giants such as Facebook?

Amazon, Facebook and Google are as dominant as Standard Oil and AT&T were. But breaking them up is not going to be easy

Politicians can’t control the digital giants with rules drawn up for the analogue era

Legislators need to be robust if we are to restore faith in the integrity of democratic politics

How can Facebook change when it exists to exploit personal data?

The tech giant’s astonishing growth is entirely based on drawing on what it knows of its users, whatever its CEO might sorrowfully tell us

Facebook’s week of shame: the Cambridge Analytica fallout

Mark Zuckerberg kept his silence – then did little to assuage the anger in a week that laid bare the worst of Silicon Valley

The Brexit whistleblower: ‘Did Vote Leave use me? Was I naive?’

Shahmir Sanni, a volunteer for Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit EU referendum campaign, explains how a company linked to Cambridge Analytica played a crucial role in the result, and voices his concerns that electoral spending rules were manipulated… and evidence apparently destroyed

‘A grand illusion’: seven days that shattered Facebook’s facade

Revelations about the depths of Facebook’s failure to protect our data have finally pulled back the curtain, observers say

Cambridge Analytica academic’s work upset university colleagues

Emails reveal rows over Aleksandr Kogan’s ‘get rich quick scheme’ with Facebook data

Rise of digital politics: why UK parties spend big on Facebook

Online advertising is an effective way to get messages across, but the strategy must be smart

Elon Musk joins #DeleteFacebook effort as Tesla and SpaceX pages vanish

In a jab against the embattled social network, Musk joked ‘What’s Facebook?’ before deactivating his companies’ official pages

The people owned the web, tech giants stole it. This is how we take it back

Social media gave the powerless a weapon but it was wrenched away by firms like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The world still needs news. It’s time Facebook realised this

Journalists are grateful for the reach the internet gives us, but those who harvest data must take responsibility for the risks this brings, says Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow

We’re taking on Cambridge Analytica in a legal fight for data rights

It can’t be left to regulators. Now that Silicon Valley’s myth of apolitical tech is in tatters, civic resistance is essential, says solicitor Ravi Naik