The inquiry was opened six years ago after Meta notified Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) of the breach that impacted around 29 m...

Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined €251 million by Irish regulators for a 2018 data breach affecting 29 million users globally...

Apple CEO Tim Cook dined with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, joining other tech leaders like Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and ...

An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 millio...

The Austrian law, enacted in 2021 and which obliges Big Tech to publish regular reports of illegal content, comes amid mounting concerns wo...

The ban on such advertising, which targets users by harvesting their data, is a setback for U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms, the owner of th...

The European data regulator has extended a ban on "behavioural advertising" on Facebook and Instagram to all 30 countries in the European U...

The monthly subscription plans will cost €9.99 ($10.58) for web users, while iOS and Android users will have to shell out €12.99 a month.

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is considering introducing ad-free subscription plans for users in Europe. Th...

Under the plan, Meta has told regulators it would charge users roughly 10 euros ($10.46) a month on a desktop for a Facebook or Instagram a...

Since August 14, Meta Platforms has been fined 1 million crowns ($94,313) per day for harvesting user data and using it to target advertisi...

The regulator, Datatilsynet, had said on July 17 that the company would be fined if it did not address privacy breaches the regulator had i...

Regulator Datatilsynet said Meta cannot harvest user data in Norway, such as users' physical locations, and use it to target advertising at...

Here is a summary of the tussles between Silicon Valley and Brussels.

The penalty will be higher than the previous record €746 million ($821.20 million) fine for Amazon.com Inc, according to the sources.

The DPC, which acts as the EU's lead privacy regulator for Meta, said WhatsApp must reassess how it uses personal data for service improvem...

Ireland's data privacy regulator fined Meta 390 million euros ($414 million) on Wednesday for breaches at its Facebook and Instagram servic...