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Irish regulator to probe Facebook, Instagram over alleged user profilingIreland's media regulator on Tuesday said it has opened a probe into Meta over its recommender system that promotes content on its social m...
EU court adviser rejects Meta's fight against EU antitrust demands for Facebook dataA key legal adviser has supported EU regulators in their dispute with Meta Platforms. The tech giant had challenged information demands mad...
Spain to probe X, Meta, TikTok over AI-generated child sexual abuse materialThe Spanish government has ordered prosecutors to investigate social media platforms X, Meta and TikTok for allegedly spreading AI-genera...
Lawyers probe 'dire' conditions for Meta content moderators in GhanaLawyers are probing "dire"in what could turn into the latest dispute over the social media giant's labour practices in Africa. The probe fo...
Meta to use public posts, AI interactions to train models in EUMeta said on Monday people in the EU who use its platforms including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will start receiving notifications ex...
Facebook owner hit with 251 million euros in fines for 2018 data breachThe hack exploited three distinct bugs in Facebook's "View As" feature, which allowed users to see how their profiles appeared to others. T...
Ireland fines Meta €91 million over EU data breachAn Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 millio...
Dominance, data, disinformation: Europe's fight with Big TechHere is a summary of the tussles between Silicon Valley and Brussels.
Italy probes Meta over abuse of position in music rights caseLast month, Meta, which owns Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, failed to reach a deal with SIAE to renew the copyright license. As a result...
Irish privacy regulator fines Meta more than $400 millionIreland's data privacy regulator fined Meta 390 million euros ($414 million) on Wednesday for breaches at its Facebook and Instagram servic...
Irish watchdog fines Instagram 405 million euros in teen data caseIreland's Data Protection Commission said by email Monday that it made a final decision last week to fine the company 405 million euros ($4...
Irish regulator could halt Facebook, Instagram EU-US data flows in MayEurope's highest court ruled in 2020 that an EU-US data transfer pact was invalid due to concerns that US government surveillance may not r...
WhatsApp pushes privacy update to comply with Irish rulingWhatsApp is taking the action after getting hit with a record 225 million euro ($267 million) fine in September from Ireland's data privacy...
EU rejects call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user dataThere isn't enough information to establish with certainty whether Facebook had already started to process WhatsApp user data for its own p...
German antitrust watchdog launches proceedings against GoogleGermany's antitrust watchdog launched a probe into whether Google Germany, Google Ireland and its parent company Alphabet are exploiting th...
Apple wins big EU court case over $15 billion in taxesThe EU Commission had claimed in 2016 that Apple had struck an illegal tax deal with Irish authorities that allowed it to pay extremely low...
US IRS sues Facebook for $9 billion in unpaid taxesThe IRS lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, claimed that Facebook “undervalued the royalty amount between 2010 and 2016, which cut the...
Supreme Court asks centre to reply on plea for appointment of grievance officer at WhatsAppIn its plea, the CASC said that to open a bank account, a customer needs to comply with KYC norms laid down by the RBI and various other fo...
When a corporate crosses the line! Some instances of penalties handed by the EUThe EU slapped a €2.42 bn antitrust fine on Google for abusingits monopoly over internet searches. Here are a few others.
- Facebook 'building shadow profiles of non-users'
'Facebook' is gradually building "shadow profiles" of non-users of the social networking site, a privacy watchdog has claimed.