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Facebook receives personal info like your heart rate from popular apps

Facebook gets sensitive data about your heart rate and even a user's menstrual cycle, according to tests conducted by The Wall Street Journal.

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<p>Facebook's Onavo VPN app is on its way out.</p>

Facebook axes its Onavo VPN app over data collection

The decision reportedly stems from backlash over Facebook amassing information on people's phone usage.

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Facebook accused of tricking kids in complaint to FTC

Child advocates are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether the social network violated US law.

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Facebook allowed advertisers to target people interested in Nazis

Advertisers could reach people interested in perpetrators of the Holocaust and neo-Nazi music, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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<p>Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet UK culture secretary Jeremy Wright on Thursday.</p>

Zuckerberg to meet with UK culture chief after 'digital gangsters' report

The meeting at Facebook headquarters on Thursday follows the damning report from the British government.

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Facebook lets Android users block location tracking when not on the app

The social network is rolling out a new "background location" control for Android phones.

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Facebook opens registration for F8 developer conference

Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to speak at the conference in San Jose.

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative rolls on despite Facebook's problems

Initiative co-founder Priscilla Chan says the philanthropic organization is no whitewash for what's ailing the social network.

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Facebook faces questions from lawmakers about privacy of health groups

The social network has been accused of exposing the health data of users in "closed" Facebook groups.

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2019 tech events calendar: Everything on deck from Apple, Google, Amazon and more

It's going to be a long year, my friends, but CNET has you covered.

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<p>Facebook's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun said the company is interested in developing a smart assistant that has a certain level of "common sense."</p>

Facebook is trying to give AI 'common sense,' says chief scientist

Even a lot of humans don't have that.

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Some Oculus employees weren't sure if Facebook was creepy or evil

In the book The History of the Future, we get an inside look at Oculus VR, Facebook and all the politics and drama that go with them.

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