UK may force Facebook services to allow backdoor police access
End-to-end encryption could be challenged with security agencies enabled to monitor user messages.
Competition challenge to Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ of users sparks referral to Europe’s top court
A German court that’s considering Facebook’s appeal against a pioneering pro-privacy order by the country’s competition authority to stop combining user data without consent has said it will refer questions to Europe’s top court.
Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids
“We have identified youth work as a priority for Instagram and have added it to our H1 priority list,” reads an internal Instagram post obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Schrems vs. Facebook: Dispute over advertising consent could soon end up before the ECJ
The data protection activist wants to bring the dispute over explicit consent to data processing for advertising and tracking to the European Supreme Court.
Facebook may be stronger after Apple privacy changes
Zuckerberg’s comments are the most optimistic statements Facebook has made about Apple’s iOS 14 privacy update.
Judge Approves Historic $650M Facebook Privacy Settlement
More than 1.5 million Illinois Facebook users will receive at least $345 each under the terms of the landmark deal.
Investigation Finds Facebook Did Little to Prevent Apps from Sharing Sensitive User Data
Governor Cuomo accepted a New York State Department of Financial Services report detailing the findings of an investigation into the transmission of sensitive user data by application and website designers to Facebook.
Facebook Starts Blocking Sensitive Medical Data Shared by Apps Over Privacy Concerns
Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, said a report.
Facebook fined €7 million by watchdog
In addition to sanctioning Facebook for 5 million euros, the Authority had prohibited the further dissemination of the misleading practice and ordered the publication of an amendment statement on the homepage of the company website for Italy, on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered Italian user.
Facebook faces new UK class action after data harvesting scandal
Facebook is facing a second London High Court class action over allegations it failed to protect the personal details of about one million people in England and Wales, in the latest lawsuit to spring from a scandal over data harvesting.
Facebook prompt will encourage ad tracking opt-in ahead of Apple’s privacy push
Facebook is facing a privacy reckoning, thanks to Apple. Facebook will start showing the prompt globally today, prior to Apple’s early spring update.
Apple, Facebook Trade Barbs Over Privacy-Focused Business Models
Tim Cook criticized app-tracking tools that he said turn consumers into an advertising product a day after Mark Zuckerberg accused Apple of using its platform to interfere with how Facebook apps work.