Beware the smart toaster: 18 tips for surviving the surveillance age

We’ve come a long way since the web was just a fun place to share cat gifs – now it’s a place mostly dedicated to finding and selling your personal info. Here’s what you need to know in this new era

Who bit Beyoncé? Mystery sparks social media hunt

‘Bite-gate’, which allegedly took place at an LA party, has sent internet sleuths into a frenzy

Be a pioneer – delete Facebook

Quitting means beating the addiction, making a political statement and redefining social life, says Jaron Lanier, a computer philosophy writer

Facebook’s privacy practices are under investigation, FTC confirms

Facebook could face huge fines as Federal Trade Commission confirms inquiry into whether the company engaged in ‘unfair acts’

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