Facebook shadow profiles aren’t new news. In fact, it was reported at least 3-years ago that the company used shadow profiles to inventory non-Facebook users. So why are we writing about it now? Well, ...

Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't want to talk about shadow profiles. On Tuesday, May 22, the Facebook CEO did his best to avoid directly answering questions from the European Parliament covering data ...

Mark Zuckerberg resumed his two-day congressional hearing on Wednesday, returning to Congress to testify on Facebook's mishandling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. One remark from the ...

Facebook has been accused of building "shadow profiles" on individuals not registered with the social network, gathering information from synchronized phones, email providers, IM conversations and ...

Of the countless topics broached during Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony with Congress this week, the concept of “shadow profiles” was among the more pertinent. The intense back and forth between Rep. Ben ...

Last week, headlines screamed that contact information for 6 million Facebook users had been breached. It turned out to be a decidely un-sexy privacy breach. Facebook has a tool for users to download ...

You don't even have to be a member of one of the many social networks or messenger services – the networks most likely have information about you anyway. Through information and addresses that your ...

Imagine an entire Facebook profile of you that appeared out of nowhere — even if you'd never signed up for the social-networking service. The profile would be based on personal data that had been ...

You may have managed to go all this time without ever making any kind of social media account. However, Facebook could potentially still have your information even if you've never set up an account.

Facebook's shadow profile data collection activities came to light Friday when the social network disclosed a bug fix. The security researchers who found the vulnerability, Packet Storm Security, say ...

Researchers show that information gleaned from your friends on social media can predict private details about you, such as sexual orientation. But choosing to keep away from Facebook or other social ...