Privacy settings

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are developing tools that will allow Web users to block advertisers from collecting information about them.

Yahoo is launching new Facebook privacy settings, as part of its integration plans with the social media giant and a retooling of the way its users link their Yahoo accounts with social media websites.

Facebook sought to quell a steadily growing privacy furor by rolling out new, "simplified" privacy settings on Wednesday. Still, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the social networking site continue to refuse to set profiles to the highest privacy settings by default.

Perhaps it's time to tell your employees to stay off Facebook while at work. And maybe it's time to tell your kids to also stop spending so much time posting status updates or clicking video links.It's official, Facebook is the most popular social media network and because of that, it also causes...

This month, Facebook made a sneaky change to its privacy settings, and the new policy is generating a fierce backlash. The social network's default privacy setting now allows anyone to see a user's personal information. While users are permitted to change those settings, through an option to limit...