It was always kind of shady that Facebook let you volunteer your friends’ status updates, check-ins, location, interests and more to third-party apps. While this let developers build powerful, ...

On Wednesday, after admitting that its system could have allowed “malicious actors” to gather data on most of its 2 billion users, Facebook opted to immediately remove access to several sets of data ...

Facebook's seemingly never-ending string of privacy and security scandals continues today. The company has announced a security flaw in its photo API that has affected as many as 6.8 million users.

A blog post by Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer on Wednesday detailed restrictions on data access for a number of its APIs, including events, groups and pages. Read it. (The blog also ...

As part of its continuing its efforts to improve user privacy and security following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook on Monday rolled out additional API changes that put more restrictions on ...

Facebook announced last week its plans to open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing anyone to create extendable widgets for use on Facebook pages. These widgets could be for fun—such as ...

Facebook's application programming interface lets you create apps to maintain your business' group page without sitting down at a computer and logging into the social networking site. Using this API ...

More than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal came to light, Facebook is once again admitting that some developers have accessed user data that they should not have. Facebook said in a ...

A post on the Facebook developer blog announces the big application program interface (API) update from the social network that was first reported on Sunday night, which it's calling the Open Stream ...