For Meta AI, India tops the global charts: Will CathcartIndia leads globally in Meta AI's monthly active users on WhatsApp, with conversations surging post-Muse Spark launch. To enhance privacy, ...
14 May, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
HC protects MP Shashi Tharoor's personality rights, directs removal of deepfake videoThe Delhi High Court has protected Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's personality rights. The court ordered X to remove an AI-generated deepfake ...
10 May, 2026, 12.14 PM IST
New Mexico seeks child safety restrictions on Meta apps and algorithms in trial's 2nd phaseNew Mexico prosecutors are demanding significant changes to Meta's social media platforms. This follows a jury verdict finding the company ...
04 May, 2026, 09.05 PM IST
EU to soon roll out age-check app for social media where India could be looking to followEuropean Union is launching an age-verification app to shield children online. India's Karnataka state has banned social media for under-16...
15 Apr, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
Can’t trust WhatsApp: Elon Musk, Pavel Durov warn against platform’s alleged privacy failuresElon Musk and Pavel Durov have criticised WhatsApp over privacy concerns. Musk said "can't trust WhatsApp" and instead promoted X Chat, whi...
10 Apr, 2026, 02.50 PM IST
What is Instagram Plus? What we know about Meta’s latest subscription model testMeta is testing Instagram Plus, a subscription version of Instagram, in select markets. The move aligns with a wider industry shift towards...
30 Mar, 2026, 10.07 PM IST
Elon Musk says WhatsApp is not secure; Meta executive hits backAs per a Bloomberg report, an international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms alleging that the company has made false claims about t...
27 Jan, 2026, 07.41 PM IST
Whistleblower sues Meta over claims of WhatsApp security flawsAttaullah Baig, ex-security head of WhatsApp, alleged that Meta ignored critical security flaws, putting billions of users at risk. Baig cl...
09 Sep, 2025, 02.12 PM IST
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify in $8 billion Facebook privacy lawsuitInvestors allege in their lawsuit that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by ...
17 Jul, 2025, 12.26 AM IST
Meta cannot delay US FTC from reopening privacy probe, court saysThe Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in its order found that Meta had not shown its challenge was likely t...
30 Mar, 2024, 09.01 AM IST
US judge to hear Meta privacy dispute with FTC next monthThe agency proposed tightening a 2019 consent agreement, that had forced Facebook, which became Meta in 2021, to pay a $5 billion penalty.
12 Dec, 2023, 12.05 AM IST
Meta-FTC privacy lawsuit: US federal judge rules against social media giantThe FTC proposed changing a settlement reached in 2019 which required Facebook to pay $5 billion. The FTC said it would tighten that to bar...
28 Nov, 2023, 08.28 AM IST
Meta Platforms must face class action for breaching medical privacy of patientsUS District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco said the plaintiffs could pursue claims that Meta violated a federal wiretap law and a Ca...
09 Sep, 2023, 01.08 AM IST
Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725 millionLawyers for the plaintiffs called the proposed settlement the largest to ever be achieved in a US data privacy class action and the most th...
23 Dec, 2022, 04.31 PM IST
Meta sued for using tracking tool to access patients' data for adsTwo proposed class-action lawsuits alleged that Meta and major US hospitals used a Meta Pixel tracking tool that sends health information t...
03 Aug, 2022, 11.38 AM IST
Meta settles decade-old privacy lawsuit, agrees to delete 'wrongfully collected' dataThe company will also pay $90 million to users who filed a claim.
16 Feb, 2022, 04.41 PM IST
Meta's Facebook to pay $90 million to settle privacy lawsuit over user trackingUsers accused the Meta Platforms Inc unit of violating federal and state privacy and wiretapping laws by using plug-ins to store cookies th...
16 Feb, 2022, 09.11 AM IST