Facebook confirmed on Wednesday it has fired a security engineer accused of using company resources to stalk women online. The accusations against the unnamed employee were lodged Sunday by Jackie Stokes, the founder of Spyglass Security. Stokes reported the issue to Facebook, which investigated the issue “as a matter of urgency.” “It’s important that people’s information …

A court in Malaysia convicted a Danish national on Monday for inaccurately criticizing police on social media. Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman is the first person to be convicted under the country’s fake-news law, which was introduced last month.  Sulaiman’s conviction was based on a video he posted to YouTube accusing the police of taking 50 minutes to respond to distress …

The UK may issue a formal summons to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that would require him to appear in front of British lawmakers the next time he enters the country, according to a letter sent to the company Tuesday. Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer “failed to answer fully” 39 questions when he appeared before Parliament last week, according to …

This story is part of “Follow the Money,” a look at how digital cash is changing the way we save, shop and work. Think about every little thing you do when you walk into a store and pay for something. You stand in line, pull out your wallet and withdraw your credit card. You chat to the cashier as you …

Facebook will comply with tough European data privacy regulation that will kick in next month, the company says, but it will also continue to serve up targeted ads based on user data. The social network will first roll out changes within Europe and will later extend the same protections to all users worldwide, the company said late Tuesday in a blog …

Shoppers around the world can now get their hands on the goods that Amazon only sells on its US website. The online retailer introduced international shipping from the US on Tuesday, making over 45 million items from its catalog available overseas. Amazon might be a global retail giant, but until now it’s offered localized versions of its services within the …

You may be willing to pay Apple every month for music or iCloud storage, but would you pay it for news? The tech giant is planning to launch a subscription news service following its purchase of magazine app Texture last month, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Texture is a kind of Netflix for magazines, which provides access to around 200 publications for $9.99 …

Data consultancy Cambridge Analytica acquired Facebook users’ personal data through multiple quizes and questionnaires, including one called “sex compass,” a former employee told a UK Parliament committee on Tuesday. As a result, it’s likely that the number of Facebook users affected by Cambridge Analytica’s data-gatherizg activities far exceeds the previously stated figure of 87 million users, said Brittany Kaiser, who …

In a more perfect world, your phone battery would easily last all day, wouldn’t degrade over time and, most crucially, wouldn’t explode. This might sound like a pipe dream, but researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new water- and zinc-based battery that could go some way to meeting all three of those criteria and could end up …

One sunny day last July, I was chatting with my cousin Kathryn as we watched her daughter Ruby, now eight, dashing around the garden of my childhood home in Manchester, England, a cute red and white polka-dot bag slung over her shoulder. It was an idyllic scene, one that stands in stark contrast to just six months earlier, when Ruby, …