IT consulting firm Accenture to cut 890 jobs from Irish operationsAccenture plans to cut around 890 jobs from its Irish operations, on top of the 400 staff let go earlier this year, both as part of a round...
01 Aug, 2023, 08.39 AM IST
Irish regulator has month to make order on EU-US Facebook data transfersEU regulators, led by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon, have been finalising a ban on the legal tool used by Facebo...
14 Apr, 2023, 09.56 AM IST
Dutch court finds Facebook used personal data incorrectly"Personal information was processed for the purposes of advertising when in this case that is not allowed," a summary of the court ruling s...
15 Mar, 2023, 05.36 PM IST
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...
24 Feb, 2022, 08.34 AM IST
France imposes fines on Facebook Ireland and Google"The CNIL has found that the facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com websites do not allow to refuse cookies as easily as it is to accept t...
07 Jan, 2022, 08.40 AM IST
Facebook India's FY21 gross ad revenue soars to Rs 9,326 croreFacebook India has reported a net profit of Rs 128 crore for 2020-21 on revenues of Rs 1,481 crore. The company paid Rs 518 crore in equali...
03 Dec, 2021, 08.35 AM IST
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...
22 Nov, 2021, 09.15 AM IST
What if we told you there are courses in Ireland that guarantee you jobs?In terms of post-study work opportunities for graduates, following Brexit, Ireland is now the only majority English-speaking country in the...
04 Oct, 2021, 04.05 PM IST
TikTok's lead EU regulator opens two data privacy probesIreland's Data Protection Commission, which is lead EU regulator for many of the world's top internet firms due to the location of their re...
15 Sep, 2021, 06.16 PM IST
Irish data privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp $266 millionIreland's Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), which is the lead data privacy regulator for Facebook within the European Union, said the issues...
02 Sep, 2021, 04.48 PM IST
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...
15 Jul, 2021, 06.24 PM IST
EU court backs national data watchdog powers in blow to Facebook, Big TechThe EU Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling could encourage national agencies to act against U.S. tech companies such as Google, Twitter and Appl...
15 Jun, 2021, 02.58 PM IST
Court allows Irish regulator to proceed with inquiry into Facebook data flows"For the reasons set out in this judgment, I refuse all of the reliefs sought by FBI (Facebook Ireland) and dismiss the claims made by it i...
14 May, 2021, 08.50 PM IST
TikTok to open first European data centre in Ireland by investing $499 millionUnder fire from U.S. President Donald Trump over national security risks, TikTok is in talks with Microsoft about selling its U.S. operatio...
06 Aug, 2020, 12.54 PM IST
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...
20 Feb, 2020, 11.15 PM IST
- 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.
24 Oct, 2011, 05.02 PM IST
- Facebook to set up international HQ in Ireland: Dublin
Facebook, the US Internet social networking giant, is to establish its non-US international headquarters in Dublin.
02 Oct, 2008, 05.42 PM IST