The 2019 breach exposed the personal information of 533 million Facebook users across 157 countries through a technique known as "scraping." Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's contact ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

Follow this channel for updates and analysis on all aspects of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, a reform of EU's data protection rules that ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Despite the apocalyptic tone of its response, Meta’s data-handling practices won’t have to change any time soon. The ruling ...

Large-scale data breaches and privacy violations have become a common occurrence over the past decade amid the vast collection of personal information online. In response, a plethora of data ...