Gautam Gambhir moves Delhi High Court against deepfakes, seeks Rs 2.5 crore damagesCricketer Gautam Gambhir has filed a lawsuit in Delhi High Court. He seeks protection for his identity against fake videos and unauthorised...
19 Mar, 2026, 03.15 PM IST
Meta to allow AI rivals on WhatsApp in bid to stave off EU actionThe European Commission, the EU's competition enforcer, last month threatened interim measures to prevent potential serious and irreparable...
05 Mar, 2026, 05.56 PM IST
Virginia appeals injunction against social media time limit for childrenVirginia has appealed a judge's preliminary injunction against a state law limiting children under 16 to one hour of social media use a day.
04 Mar, 2026, 05.49 PM IST
Rs 935.9 crores lawsuit filed by Eminem against Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and it's not just for moneyEminem’s music publishing company, Eight Mile Style, has filed a $109 million lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms, accusing th...
04 Jun, 2025, 11.40 PM IST
German court says Meta can use user data to train AIMeta has announced plans to begin training AI models with data from Facebook and Instagram from Tuesday. The court said the balance of inte...
24 May, 2025, 01.50 PM IST
Advocacy group threatens Meta with injunction over use of EU data for AI trainingNOYB (none of your business), led by privacy activist Max Schrems, said it had sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday to Meta which pl...
14 May, 2025, 11.07 AM IST
Meta must face US state lawsuits over teen social media addictionOakland-based US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected Meta's bid to toss the claims made by the states in two separate lawsuits f...
16 Oct, 2024, 09.43 AM IST
Injunction against California law on children's online safety narrowedThe law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act required platforms, before releasing any online products and services, to assess wh...
17 Aug, 2024, 09.50 AM IST
Norway court rules against Facebook owner Meta in privacy caseThe owner of Facebook and Instagram had sought a temporary injunction against the order from the Norwegian data regulator, Datatilsynet, wh...
06 Sep, 2023, 03.25 PM IST
Facebook owner Meta asks Norway court to halt privacy fineSince August 14, Meta Platforms has been fined 1 million crowns ($94,313) per day for harvesting user data and using it to target advertisi...
22 Aug, 2023, 02.23 PM IST
Meta Platforms seeks to stop privacy breach fine in NorwayMeta Platforms will be fined 1 million crowns ($97,700) per day from Aug. 14 over privacy breaches, Norway's data protection authority told...
08 Aug, 2023, 03.21 PM IST
Kenyan judge temporarily blocks mass layoff of Facebook moderatorsJudge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and the Kenya-based outsourcing firm Sama, preventing them from terminating ...
22 Mar, 2023, 09.43 AM IST
US formally ends fight against Meta's purchase of VR content maker Within UnlimitedThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which lost a fight in court to block the acquisition, said in a filing that it has decided to formally ...
25 Feb, 2023, 08.15 AM IST
Meta wins court battle to acquire VR company WithinThe FTC in July last year sought to block virtual reality giant Meta and Zuckerberg from acquiring Within as Meta is already a key player a...
05 Feb, 2023, 03.02 PM IST
Meta building virtual world open to app makers, Mark Zuckerberg tells US antitrust courtZuckerberg was defending Meta's proposed acquisition in a high-profile trial over the future of the social media company's budding metavers...
21 Dec, 2022, 08.12 AM IST
Meta settles lawsuits with 2 firms engaged in scraping its dataMeta (formerly Facebook) has settled a lawsuit for "significant sum" against two companies that were engaged in data scraping operations on...
04 Oct, 2022, 02.23 PM IST
US sues to stop Facebook from buying WithinThe FTC, which voted 3-2 to approve the request to seek an injunction, argued that the acquisition of Within by Facebook would "tend to cre...
28 Jul, 2022, 08.54 AM IST