Discover the steps to download your Facebook data on desktop and mobile, ensuring you have a backup of your photos, messages ...

“Download a copy of your Facebook data.” It’s been there for years and it’s not particularly hidden, but few people ever had cause to click it. The data inside was not particularly usable ...

The new tools will allow select researchers to access publicly available data on Facebook and Instagram in an effort to give a more overarching view of what's happening on the platforms.

Those who weren't affected will instead get a direct link to Facebook's Apps and Websites privacy settings, where they can see which apps have access to their data, and the option to remove them.

It also considered charging app developers for access to data, despite pledges that it would never do so. There is no indication that Facebook went forward with a proposal to charge app ...

as well as the web browser used to access Facebook. IP addresses are used to infer a users geolocation, and the data download includes a list of potential coordinates a user might have accessed ...

Facebook gave some of the tech industry's biggest companies greater access to users' personal data than the social-networking company previously disclosed, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders.