People have been receiving a spurt of e-mails ahead of major new data protection laws coming into force on Friday and the deadline has sparked some funny responses and memes on social media.

If you've been seeing a lot of messages on websites about your data, or getting bombarded with emails, here's why.

New data protection rules come into force on May 25. They have been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web.

Facebook’s two billion users may get the full benefit of the European Union’s stringent data protection regulations

Security officials in the UK, US and Australia have accused Russia of hacking into millions of machines and using them as part of an espionage campaign against the West since 2015.

Those using fertility, pregnancy, and period-tracking apps are at risk of having their data harvested for third-parties, says Brazilian think thank Coding Rights.

New regulations on data security in Europe are a step in the right direction to protecting consumers, but more important is how companies respond.

At least 87 million Facebook profiles were harvested by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica starting in 2014. Here’s how you can find out if your information was leaked, and how to delete it.

Just over a month to go until the European Union’s stringent data protection regulation kicks in. But how prepared is Facebook as it grapples with the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

The social network, which boasts 2.2 billion active users, has issued adverts in major UK and US newspapers apologising for their “breach of trust”.