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
Apple, Meta warn Canadian bill could force them to weaken encryptionApple and Meta are opposing Canada's Bill C-22, arguing it could force them to break device and service encryption. Law enforcement claims ...
08 May, 2026, 09.43 AM IST
US ends investigation into claims WhatsApp chats aren’t privateA US agency abruptly closed an investigation into claims that Meta Platforms can access encrypted WhatsApp messages. A Commerce Department ...
29 Apr, 2026, 08.23 AM IST
AI is a gold mine for spammers and scammers, but Google is using it as a tool to fight backGenerative AI is supercharging online spam and scams, with the FBI reporting over $893 million in losses last year. Tech giants like Google...
17 Apr, 2026, 08.36 AM 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
Spain to investigate Meta for alleged Android privacy breachesSpain will investigate Meta for allegedly tracking Android users’ web activity via hidden mechanisms, potentially violating EU privacy and ...
19 Nov, 2025, 07.19 PM IST
Google, Flo Health to pay $56 million in period-tracking app privacy caseGoogle and Flo Health agreed to a $56 million settlement over allegations they shared sensitive menstrual and pregnancy data from Flo app u...
25 Sep, 2025, 10.14 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
At Meta, millions of underage users were an 'open secret,' show court filingThe social media giant "routinely continued to collect" children's personal information, including their locations and email addresses, wit...
26 Nov, 2023, 08.32 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
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
FTC proposes ban on Meta profiting from minors' dataThe FTC's proposed changes include barring Facebook from making money off data collected on users under age 18, including in its virtual re...
03 May, 2023, 11.06 PM IST
S.Korea fines Google, Meta billions of won for privacy violationsThe privacy panel said the firms did not clearly inform service users and obtain prior consent when collecting and analysing behavioural in...
14 Sep, 2022, 12.31 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
Oversight Board wants Meta Platforms to look into 'doxing' issuesThe Board is recommending that Meta’s policies should go further in preventing individuals’ private residential information from being post...
08 Feb, 2022, 08.05 PM IST