This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2016, held in Can Tho City, Vietnam, in November 2016. The 28  revised full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions.  The accepted papers were grouped into the following sessions:  Advances in query processing and optimization  Big data analytics and applications  Blockchains and emerging authentication techniques  Data engineering tools in software development  Data protection, data hiding, and access control  Internet of Things and applications  Security and privacy engineering  Social network data analytics and recommendation systems.