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Facebook's quarterly financial results appeared to show no impact over the breach of users private data

Facebook reports soaring profits despite data scandal

WhatsApp had more than 1.5 billion users in January according to Facebook

WhatsApp to raise minimum age and create Irish entity

News Lens / 21 hrs

Facebook says it is trying to be clearer about where it draws the line on content

Facebook to consider appeals on content removal

Technology / 24 Apr

Facebook has been under scrutiny from politicians across the world since disclosing that the personal information of 87 million Facebook users wrongly ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica

PwC cleared Facebook's privacy practices in leak period

Business / 20 Apr

'New privacy experiences' to be rolled out

Facebook to begin roll out of privacy changes

technology / 18 Apr

Joel Kaplan said Facebook did not do enough to prevent its tools from being used for harm

Facebook executive apologises over recent data scandal

Ireland / 18 Apr

Wetherspoon closes Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts for its head office and almost 900 pubs in Britain and Ireland.

JD Wetherspoon drops social media in protest

Business / 16 Apr

The High Court referral asks the ECJ if the Privacy Shield does in fact mean that the US 'ensures an adequate level of protection'

ECJ asked to probe Facebook US data transfers

Business / 12 Apr

Lawyers for Facebook asked for time to consider whether or not the company would appeal the decision

High Court submits questions to Europe on Facebook

Courts / 12 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg faced questions from dozens of politicians

'It was my mistake' - Key Zuckerberg hearing quotes

News Lens / 11 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg agreed that 'everyone should have control over how their information is used'

'I would probably not choose to do that publicly'

News Lens / 11 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg arriving at US Congress to testify

Facebook to investigate 'tens of thousands' of apps

Science and Technology / 11 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Capitol Hill last night to meet US politicians

Five questions US Congress should ask Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook / 10 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg is to testify before senators tomorrow, and a House panel on Wednesday

Zuckerberg to tell Congress breach 'was my mistake'

News Lens / 10 Apr

Facebook said the measures will not be in place in Ireland prior to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment on 25 May

Facebook to verify identities for political ads

The company's shares have sunk 16%, wiping more than $80 billion from its market value since 16 March

Facebook shares rise as Zuckerberg soothes investors

Business / 06 Apr

The ODPC says it is still unclear whether scraping of data by third party apps has posed actual harms or risks

ODPC warns high number of Irish users' data harvested

Facebook / 06 Apr

Facebook said the data of up to 87 million people may have been shared with Cambridge Analytica

87 million users may have been hit by Facebook scandal

Facebook / 05 Apr

Mr Zuckerberg said that one of Facebook's problems was that it was 'idealistic'

Zuckerberg says Facebook needs 'years' to fix problems

The 2017 Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse

There are no racing certainties on the stock market

Business / 09 Apr

New privacy management tools are among the developments announced today

Apple rolls out privacy updates ahead of GDPR

Technology / 29 Mar

Updates include improving ease of access to Facebook's user settings

Facebook announces new steps to protect users' privacy

Facebook shares are down nearly 18% since March 16

Facebook to give users more control over personal info

Business / 28 Mar

Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the mistakes Facebook has made

Zuckerberg won't answer MP questions over data breach

Technology / 27 Mar

Germany's Cartel Office will look at how Facebook collects and uses data from third party websites

Germany promises 'strict' regulations for Facebook

Business / 26 Mar

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