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FTC’s Chopra Tells House Antitrust Panel Big Tech’s Data Practices Threaten Competition
Oct 21 2019 // U.S. technology companies sent tens of thousands of documents to the House committee investigating whether they’re using their dominance to thwart competition, as the panel looks to develop recommendations by next...
Facebook Loses Backers for Its Libra Digital Currency But Could Still Proceed
Oct 14 2019 // Facebook faces a rough road ahead with Libra, but defections by high-profile partners are still unlikely to spell the end for the digital currency. On Friday, Visa and MasterCard announced their departures from the Libra...
As Many as 40 States Eye Probe of Facebook Over Antitrust, Privacy Concerns
Oct 8 2019 // An estimated 40 U.S. state attorneys general will participate in a probe of Facebook Inc., a source said on Monday, suggesting many more states want allegations of anticompetitive practices at the social media company...
Euro Zone to Launch Public Cryptocurrency in Response to Threat of Facebook’s Libra
Sep 13 2019 // Euro zone governments and central banks are working on a long-term plan to launch a public digital currency that they hope would make redundant projects like Facebook’s Libra, which is seen as a risk to financial...
Judge: Facebook ‘Could Not Be More Wrong’ in Cambridge Analytica Defense
Sep 11 2019 // Facebook Inc. users suing over the social network’s worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to back up their claims that it failed to safeguard their personal data, exposing the...
Judge Permits Nationwide Privacy Lawsuit Against Facebook to Proceed
Sep 10 2019 // A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc. to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users’ private data, calling the social media...
India Court Grants Facebook Some Relief in Key Privacy Case
Aug 21 2019 // India’s top court handed out a reprieve to Facebook Inc. in its battle to preserve the encryption feature of its Whatsapp messaging service which prevents it from sharing details of users or messages with the...
Facebook Warned Its Employees, Not Users, About 2018 Breach, Lawsuit Says
Aug 16 2019 // Facebook users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed to warn them about risks tied to its single sign-on tool, even though it protected its employees, a court filing on...
Facebook Must Face Privacy Class Action Over Collecting Biometric Data
Aug 12 2019 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc.’s effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users without their consent. The 3-0...
Court Upholds Facebook Immunity in Case Brought by Terrorist Attack Victims
Aug 1 2019 // Facebook Inc. on Wednesday defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks in Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its terroristic goals. The 2nd...
U.S. Announces $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook, Other Privacy Settlement Terms
Jul 24 2019 // Facebook Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and the social media giant will restructure its approach to privacy, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said...
U.S. Close to $5 Billion Penalty Against Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica Data
Jul 23 2019 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc. as early as this week of its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, two...
Facebook Facing $5 Billion FTC Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Data Sharing
Jul 15 2019 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a source familiar with the...
House Democrats Eye Possible Ban on Big Tech Firms Offering Financial Services
Jul 15 2019 // A proposal to prevent big technology companies from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies has been circulated for discussion by the Democratic majority that leads the House Financial Services...
Ethereum Blockchain Founder Among Those Worried About Facebook’s Libra Currency
Jul 12 2019 // Facebook Inc.’s foray into digital currencies risks reversing gains in privacy and user sovereignty won by computer-networking pioneers, according to one of the co-founders of Ethereum, the blockchain of choice for...
IBM Joins Call to Trim Liability Shield for Google, Facebook, Other Internet Platforms
Jul 11 2019 // International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday threw its support behind enacting a new policy to limit liability protections enjoyed by internet platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook...
EU Judges Face Another Major Facebook Privacy Case from Activist Schrems
Jul 9 2019 // Five years ago, when activist Max Schrems took Facebook Inc. to the European Union’s top court no one knew what to call the case. The controversy, which led to judges scrapping a key trans-Atlantic data-transfer...
Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Drops Defamation Suit Against Facebook
Jul 8 2019 // Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation lawsuit against the social network rather than engage in an expensive, drawn-out...
New York Governor Cuomo Orders Probe into Facebook’s Advertising Platform
Jul 2 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Financial Services to investigate reports that state-regulated advertisers were using Facebook Inc’s advertising platform in a discriminatory...
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Gets Pushback from Global Financial Watchdogs
Jun 24 2019 // Facebook Inc. was hours away from the formal announcement of its ambitious foray into financial services, but French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire was already broadcasting his discontent. “It’s out of the...
