Facebook and psychologists who have worked with it are grappling with their “Oppenheimer moment”, experts say, over revelations that its data may have been used to help elect US President Donald Trump.

1.Review our platform.  We will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform in 2014 to reduce data access, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity. If we find developers that misused personally identifiable information, we will ban them from our platform.

EU leaders will Thursday press tech giants to protect personal data in the wake of the scandal over information harvested from Facebook, draft summit conclusions said.

A plan to mine data from Commonwealth Games visitors who use free and fast wifi in Australia was abandoned Thursday as a privacy scandal swirls around social media giant Facebook.

SOCIAL media platform, Facebook’s plans to launch satellite and drone initiatives capable of providing free internet services to rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa is sending a wave of panic to the Nigerian telecom operators who fear their revenue bases could be further depleted by unlicensed operators who provide similar services they have paid huge licence fees for.

 British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, following reports that the company may have improperly gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users.

Facebook and FATE Foundation said plans have been concluded to hold the 2018 edition of the Aspiring Entrepreneurs Digital Programme, a free four-week bootcamp for select entrepreneurs in seven cities across Nigeria.

Canadian telecommunications firm BlackBerry sued Facebook on Tuesday, accusing the American social media company of infringing on its patents for messaging apps.

Venus of Willendorf nude statue is now the latest artwork to be censored as inappropriate by the social media giant, Facebook.

At Mobile World Congress, 2018, Mastercard announced that it would use Facebook Messenger to provide technology to small businesses in Africa and Asia to drive affordable acceptance of electronic and mobile payments.

A French baker won his day in court against Facebook on Tuesday after a user created a fake page about his bakery.

Facebook on Tuesday announced a $3 million pilot project aimed at helping US newspapers boost paid digital subscriptions.

Belgian court on Friday threatened Facebook with a fine of up to 100 million euros (125 million dollars ) if it continued to break privacy laws by tracking people on third-party websites.

An Economic Impact Study conducted by Facebook in partnership with Morning Consult Brand Intelligence has revealed the growing importance of digital platforms to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria.

Ahead of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming up in May 2018, popular free social networking website,  Facebook has announced plans to make provision for protection of the privacy of its users.