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
French media companies sue Meta over business practicesA group of 67 French media companies, including TF1 and France TV, is suing Meta in Paris over alleged illegal digital advertising practice...
23 Apr, 2025, 09.31 PM IST
Count down as the Tok Tiks: Can a TikTok ban really solve America’s bigger problems?The ongoing TikTok ban debate in the US highlights the clash between national security concerns and the interests of domestic tech giants. ...
22 Jan, 2025, 11.20 PM IST
China confronts Europe over climate-based trade restrictionsCOP29's agenda is expected to largely focus on what rich countries, whose carbon-intensive development has fueled climate change, owe poore...
06 Nov, 2024, 10.05 AM IST
TikTok, bowing to EU, withdraws rewards programmeTikTok will permanently remove a feature in a spinoff app in France and Spain that rewards users for watching and liking videos, bowing to ...
05 Aug, 2024, 04.23 PM IST
Can EU's gig worker rules tame management by algorithm?EU ministers address algorithmic management issues faced by European gig workers. The deal aims to provide transparency over AI-powered dec...
16 Mar, 2024, 01.26 PM IST
Sam Altman's Worldcoin files lawsuit after Spanish banWorldcoin aims to create a global identity system, and involves people getting their irises scanned in exchange for free cryptocurrency and...
08 Mar, 2024, 10.31 PM IST
Risky China apps need India-style action: FCC Commissioner Brendan CarrIndia banned TikTok and nearly 300 other Chinese apps in phases, starting from June 2020, over national security concerns.
15 Aug, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Amazon to make big business changes in EU settlementAmazon will make major changes to its business practices to end competition probes in Europe by giving customers more visible choices when ...
20 Dec, 2022, 09.52 PM IST
Why regulation is the only way to rein in monopolistic power of Big TechToday, Google and Facebook command about 60% of all US digital advertising revenue and appropriate billions of dollars from traditional med...
15 Nov, 2022, 11.35 PM IST
Amazon may have to pay £900 million as compensation to UK customersAmazon's UK customers may be eligible to earn a portion of £900 million in compensation once a lawsuit is filed against the e-commerce gian...
21 Oct, 2022, 12.58 AM IST
Amazon faces $1 billion lawsuit in UK for 'favouring its own products'The proposed case - which Amazon said was "without merit" - would be the latest mass action against a tech giant to be filed at London's Co...
20 Oct, 2022, 05.34 PM IST
Nykaa’s Q3 results; Meta concerned about India’s data billThe parent company of beauty retailer Nykaa, which had a blockbuster IPO in 2021, has reported a 58% year-on-year fall in its consolidated ...
09 Feb, 2022, 08.41 PM IST
India's restrictions on data processing, storage worrying: Meta Platforms tells SEC"Some countries, such as India, are considering or have passed legislation implementing data protection requirements or requiring local sto...
09 Feb, 2022, 10.19 AM IST
Class action lawsuits to become EU lawCurrently, only six EU countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden) offer what the European Consumer Organisation conside...
24 Nov, 2020, 06.09 PM IST
Facebook's arch nemesis, Max Schrems, says he’d raised data breach alarm bells in 2011Schrems has taken on Facebook many times and won a landmark European Union court ruling in 2015.
21 Mar, 2018, 07.07 PM IST
Google's $2.7 billion fine may boost old foes' claims of abuseThe long probe hasn’t hurt Google, which did its initial public offering in 2004, selling shares for $85. They ended last week at $986.09.
27 Jun, 2017, 04.55 PM IST