Social networking services

A man who is declared as wanted offender wrote his phone number in the comment section of the post by Sofia Police on Facebook, and then they contacted him. Krasimir Tonchev has a valid sentence for driving without a license. He told Darik that the police had never contacted him before publishing his phone number.

Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on March 27, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company.

Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologizing to users.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in nine major British and U.S. newspapers on March 25 to apologize for a huge data privacy scandal.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized on March 21 for mistakes his company made in how it handled data belonging to 50 million of its users and promised tougher steps to restrict developers' access to such information.

Facebook is changing the way its shares data with third-party applications, Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday in his first public statement since the Observer reported that the personal data of about 50 million Americans had been harvested and improperly shared with a political consultancy.

The privacy scandal rocking Facebook has cost the social media company nearly billion in market value over the past two days.

Facebook shares tumbled 6.8 percent Monday and another 2.56 percent Tuesday after news of the Cambridge Analytica data breach. The Facebook stock price is currently at 8.15.

LONDON — The head of Trump-affiliated data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica has been suspended, while government authorities are bearing down on both the firm and Facebook over allegations the firm stole data from 50 million Facebook users to manipulate elections.

Facebook  Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos is reportedly leaving after disagreements over how the social media network should handle the spread of disinformation. The news was first reported by The New York Times, and later independently reported by Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.

A data analysis firm employed by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign tapped the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, allowing it to capitalize on the private social media activity of a large portion of the U.S. electorate, newspapers have reported.