Mozilla this morning launched a Firefox browser add-on for those users not willing to delete their Facebook account, but also wanting some control over how much of their data Facebook can access. The ...

A new Firefox browser extension uses clever design to keep Facebook’s sticky fingers away from the rest of your web-browsing data. While it can’t stop Facebook from learning about you when you’re on ...

Firefox has released an extension that it claims will stop the company snooping on users’ non-Facebook web traffic. The Facebook Container extension isolates users' identities to a separate container ...

Facebook has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks as users are becoming increasingly concerned about how much data the social media platform is collecting from them. Mozilla ...

Mozilla releases a tool called Facebook Container to improve privacy during a time when the world is suddenly more aware of how much Facebook has eroded it. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has thrust Facebook privacy settings into the national conversation after the political firm used the personal data of about 50 million people without their consent.

You can’t stop Facebook from tracking everything you do on the social network (unless you delete your account, of course), but there is a way to stop it from tracking where you go once you leave the ...

Mozilla is rolling out a new Firefox container extension that isolates web activity from Facebook and makes it harder for the social network to track user activity on other websites via third-party ...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal involving Facebook, it's perhaps understandable to see the #DeleteFacebook movement picking up steam. Indeed, even Elon Musk got in on the ...

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Facebook has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks as users are becoming increasingly concerned about how much data the social media platform is collecting from them. Mozilla ...