Facebook collects mountains of personal information about all of us, whether we mean to share it or not. The company pulls in data from third parties, adding tidbits of information when we visit sites ...

Whether you spend hours a day posting, liking, and commenting on Facebook or you haven't used the social networking platform in weeks, everything you have done on the site is recorded in your Activity ...

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 ...

Facebook has never been a place for privacy and security, and Meta makes it a matter of policy. The company doesn't just have access to your activity when you use Facebook and Instagram. It also knows ...

It won't come as much of a surprise that Facebook tracks you on its platform—that's why it can resurface your birthday photos from five years ago—but you might not yet realize the scope and the depth ...

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 ...

Facebook unveiled a new tool on Tuesday that lets users see how much — and what — data about them other apps are sharing with the social media behemoth. The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool was announced ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Facebook is watching you — but thanks to a newly-unveiled feature, it's now possible to keep tabs on how Facebook is tracking your activity.

For years, my Facebook account has practically sat dormant. It’s a nostalgic relic of the past that lets me occasionally walk down the memory lane of my life’s first two decades. But it’s also a weak ...

Of the 1,081 apps and websites that have been sharing my “activity” with Facebook, Tinder is the chattiest. In the past 180 days, it has reported 685 of my “interactions” with its app to Facebook, ...

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