Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. One easy-to-access file could hand hackers or abusive ...

Reviewing your Facebook data allows you to see what personal information Facebook has collected about you, helping you make informed decisions about your privacy settings. You might also need a copy ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

You've likely heard by now about Cambridge Analytica, the shadowy, Trump-affiliated data analysis firm that reportedly siphoned off information belonging to 50 million Facebook users, according to The ...

Each company has a dedicated Data request page page. Visit that page, select the data you want to download, and submit the request. Depending on the data size and service, processing your request ...

I've been a Facebook user since 2008, and in that time, I've posted hundreds of photos and videos of my kids growing up and other wonderful life events. So it would be a shame to lose it all if my ...

Users won't be able to pass along music or .exe files -- but infected PDFs and other forms of pirated content are permissible Facebook has started to roll out a new file-sharing capability — and ...

After more than a year of working out the kinks, Pipe is set to go public on Wednesday, letting Facebook friends transfer files as big as a gigabyte. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, ...