The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for its Facebook service (...
In court docs, state AGs allege that Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai personally approved a secret 2018 deal giving Facebook advantages in Google's ad auctions
join us in demanding action. https://sign.moveon.org/... https://twitter.com/... Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich : to be clear, bid-rigging like this is a Section 1 Sherman Act violation that carries cr...
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement “inaccurate”
But Only If You're an Advertiser Danny Bradbury / IT PRO : FTC scolds Facebook for citing it in researcher ban Pluralistic : Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke (permalink...
The Internet Association, whose members include Facebook and Google, joins a lawsuit from the US Chamber of Commerce challenging Maryland's digital services tax
and stop other local governments from following its lead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : (Mostly) unsnarky question: Is it a sound strategy for every company confronte...
DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015
but spying on private citizens by gaining access to their social media account information, if proven true, is illegal and completely unacceptable. https://twitter.com/... Molly McKew / @mollymckew : ...
Inside FTC's 16-month Facebook probe that ended in a $5B fine; sources: FTC initially considered imposing more direct liability for Zuckerberg and a bigger fine
Then the FTC Caved Mathew Katz / Digital Trends : The FTC's $5 billion privacy fine on Facebook could've been much, much bigger Karissa Bell / Mashable : How the FTC let Mark Zuckerberg off the hook T...
Sources: in a 3-2 vote, FTC commissioners have approved a record $5B settlement with Facebook over the company's privacy violations
or one month's worth of revenue Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation Howard Lindzon : Why Facebook Needs Libra Mark Wyciślik-Wilson ...
UK's ICO fines British Airways a record £183M fine for the data breach in 2018 that affected ~500K customers
could your business be next? Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : UK's ICO swings $230 million stick at British Airways for major data breach John Oates / The Register : UK privacy watchdog threatens British...
A look at how game apps track kids' data as a lawsuit accuses Google and Twitter ad businesses, and a popular app maker, of violating children's privacy law
New York Times : Tweets: @jenvalentino , @nickconfessore , @manjusrii , @jugander , @jason_kint , @leoniehaimson , and @profcarroll Tweets: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino : In a new lawsu...
EPIC files suit with FTC over Google's opaque Store Sales Measurement plan to track shoppers' in-store purchases, saying users have no easy way to opt out
A prominent privacy rights watchdog is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate a new Google advertising program … Tweets: @profcarroll Tweets: David Carroll / @profcarroll : Major FTC compl...