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Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Data Breach Affecting Nearly 30 Million Users
Jun 24 2019 // Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of several privacy snafus that have put the company under siege. The company’s disclosure in September that...
Senator Calls for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to Lose Immunity If Politically Biased
Jun 20 2019 // Technology platforms such as Facebook Inc. and Google’s YouTube could face a flood of lawsuits unless they can demonstrate their treatment of users’ content is politically neutral, under a measure that U.S....
Facebook Plans Global Cryptocurrency, Entry into Financial Services
Jun 19 2019 // Facebook Inc. announced ambitious plans on Tuesday to launch a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, part of an effort to expand into digital payments that immediately raised privacy concerns. The social networking giant...
Emails Suggest CEO Zuckerberg Aware of Facebook’s Privacy Faults, WSJ Reports
Jun 13 2019 // Facebook Inc. emails appear to show Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s involvement in discussions about its much criticized privacy practices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people...
D.C. Judge Lets Cambridge Analytica Privacy Suit Against Facebook Proceed
Jun 4 2019 // Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’ personal data and allowing a U.K. political consulting firm to mine the information for...
Facebook Must Turn Over Records on How Execs Handle Data Privacy, Judge Rules
May 31 2019 // A U.S. judge ordered Facebook Inc. to give shareholders emails and other records concerning how the social media company handles data privacy, after data for 87 million users was accessed by the British political...
Facebook Rebuffed by Irish Supreme Court Over Data Transfer Case Referral
May 31 2019 // The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hear a landmark privacy case regarding the transfer of EU citizens’ data to the United States in July, after Facebook’s bid to stop its referral was blocked by...
EU’s Landmark Data Privacy Law, GDPR, Already Providing Global Standard
May 23 2019 // A landmark European privacy law is making waves worldwide a year after it came into force, fundamentally changing the way data are handled as Facebook, Apple and Google face increasingly frequent complaints. Adopted on May...
Facebook Reported Agreeing to 20-Year Pact on Privacy Oversight by Government
May 20 2019 // The social media giant Facebook Inc. is headed toward an agreement with the U.S. government over its privacy policies and practices that would put it under 20 years of oversight, according to a source knowledgeable about...
How Much Do Facebook Users Really Care About Privacy?
Apr 29 2019 // Facebook Inc. is preparing for a record-setting fine from U.S. regulators over privacy issues, but Wall Street shrugged at the looming penalty after the company added users and trounced profit expectations for the first...
Privacy Practices Probe Could Cost Facebook Up to $5 Billion
Apr 25 2019 // Facebook Inc. estimated that it will cost as much as $5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into its privacy practices, as the social-media company moves to put the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal behind...
Sports Sponsorship: It’s a New Ball Game for Insurers. Learn How Leading Carriers are Winning.
Apr 22 2019 // Brad Auerbach Head of Industry for Insurance, Facebook Insurance carriers invest heavily in sports activations, from stadium rights to tour sponsorships. Historically, the traditional sponsorship model has been an...
Facebook Opposes Release of Privacy Reports Used to Settle Litigation
Apr 18 2019 // Facebook Inc. will seek to block disclosures from years’ worth of privacy reports it submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to filings in a lawsuit seeking the release of information in the...
EU’s New Copyright Rules Could Hurt Google, Facebook
Apr 15 2019 // Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the European Union’s $1 trillion creative...
UK Joins Global Backlash Against Tech Firms that Fail to Control Harmful Content
Apr 9 2019 // The U.K. joined a growing global backlash against technology companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., proposing fines and bans if social-media platforms fail to curb illegal activity. The government outlined plans...
Tech Firms Face Fines and Jail for Failure to Remove Violent Content in Australia
Apr 4 2019 // Australia will fine social media and web hosting companies up to 10 percent of their annual global turnover and imprison executives for up to three years if violent content is not removed “expeditiously” under...
Twitter CEO Agrees with Facebook CEO, Supports Regulation of Social Media Platforms
Apr 3 2019 // Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said rules like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation have had a positive impact on the technology industry, remarks that come days after Facebook Inc. CEO Mark...
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Says He Backs Regulation of Internet Content, Privacy
Apr 2 2019 // Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called for new global regulations governing the internet, recommending overarching rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data...
Microsoft Exec Says It’s Time to Revisit Big Tech’s Responsibility for Its Content
Mar 25 2019 // Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith has called for a broad effort by the technology sector to do more to halt posting and accessing of violent materials like the videos of killings from the recent terrorist attacks in New...
Facing Bias Claims, Facebook Will Revamp Its Platform for Housing, Jobs, Credit Ads
Mar 20 2019 // Facebook Inc has agreed to change its paid advertising platform as part of a wide-ranging settlement to prevent discriminatory and “harmful” practices, the company and U.S. civil rights groups said on...
