Facebook's privacy controls likely will have a negative effect on marketers that try to reach the social network's users with targeted ads. It remains to be seen how many Facebook users will opt to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet - or at least on Facebook. Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you block the social network ...

Websites and apps use Facebook’s Pixel and software development kit (SDK) to collect information about your device and your activity, and send that to Facebook. Facebook uses that information to then ...

In recent years, Facebook‘s name has become synonymous with scandals and data leaks. The social media network has a poor privacy record and although it has recently made some minimal efforts to ...

Your online activity information that some third-party websites and apps provide to Facebook is called off-Facebook Activity. According to Facebook, it receives information about you and your browsing ...

Throughout its 16 years of existence, Facebook has struggled to provide the privacy controls users really want and need to safeguard the data they post to the platform. It's been a challenging project ...

Louise Matsakis covers Amazon, internet law, and online culture for WIRED. Off-Facebook Activity will give you a summary of the third-party websites and apps that share your visit history with ...