Dutch court will hear another Facebook privacy lawsuit
Privacy litigation that’s being brought against Facebook by two not-for-profits in the Netherlands can go ahead, an Amsterdam court has ruled. The case will be heard in October.
Privacy litigation that’s being brought against Facebook by two not-for-profits in the Netherlands can go ahead, an Amsterdam court has ruled. The case will be heard in October.
German government organisations have until the end of the year to close their Facebook pages after the data protection commissioner found the social network had failed to change its practices to comply with German and European privacy laws.
Europe’s top court is set to rule on whether national regulators can reach across borders.
Market competition regulators from Britain and the European Union (EU) have launched investigations into Facebook’s use of data.
Investors and activists are presenting Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter with a list of shareholder resolutions this week.
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force.
The company lost a bid to block a EU privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about Europeans to the U.S.
A German regulator has slapped a three-month ban on Facebook collecting user data from WhatsApp accounts and referred the case to an EU watchdog, citing concerns about election integrity.
Signal tried to buy “multi-variant targeted” ads on Instagram to show what parent company Facebook knows about its users.
Facebook and Instagram are worried that people won’t let them track them.
Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite being alerted to evidence of the wrongdoing.
At issue is Facebook’s “content importer,” a feature that combs a user’s address book to find people they know who also use Facebook. Many social networks and communication apps offer some version of this as a sort of social lubricant. But Facebook’s contact import tool in particular has had a number of known problems, and supposed fixes, over the years.