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"We really messed this one up."

That's Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing in 2006, addressing concerns that the social networking company bungled privacy controls when it launched its News Feed.

Twelve years later, Zuckerberg could have written the same line again following the uproar over the acquisition of up to 60 million Facebook profiles by voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica (see Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: Data Scandal Intensifies).

On Wednesday, Zuckerberg broke five days of silence as pressure intensified on Facebook to account for what happened. In a lengthy post, Zuckerberg pledged to make changes to better protect personal data.

"I started Facebook, and at the end of the day, I'm responsible for what...

At a U.S. House hearing Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would eventually comply worldwide with the European Union's tough privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation.

Earlier this month, Zuckerberg had indicated the company would comply "in spirit" worldwide but that some exceptions would be made (see: Facebook's Zuckerberg: GDPR Won't Apply Worldwide).

"Yes, all the same controls will be available around the world," Zuckerberg testified at the House hearing. "We believe everyone deserves good privacy controls."

Some of the data protections required by GDPR have been built into Facebook already and available for years, Zuckerberg said. For instance, Facebook users have had the ability to download all...

The end of net neutrality might mean third-party browser tracking, the deprivatization of online transactions, spyware on your phone, and more. At least that’s what Dr. Kenneth Williams claims.

Williams is director of the American Public University System (APUS) Center for Cyber Defense. When asked how net neutrality’s end could cause all this doom and gloom, the explanation requires a few steps: “When net neutrality ends, [antimalware software] providers are now at a higher cost to service providers,” he begins. This, in turn, could raise the cost of internet access for users who want to maintain the data safeguards their internet service provider (ISP) used before.

“The cost is going to go up if you choose those, but if you’re a...