January 6 House Committee subpoenas Google, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th terror attack on the US Capitol has issued four subpoenas to Google, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit...
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Facebook Launches ‘Privacy Center’ to Educate Users on Data Collection and Privacy Options
Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Friday announced the launch of a centralized Privacy Center that aims to “educate people” about...
France Fines Google, Facebook €210 Million Over Privacy Violating Tracking Cookies
The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), France’s data protection watchdog, has slapped Facebook (now Meta Platforms) and Google with fines of...
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France Hits Google, Facebook With Huge Fines Over ‘Cookies’
French regulators have hit Google and Facebook with 210 million euros ($237 million) in fines over their use of “cookies”, the data used to...
Facebook Patches Vulnerability Exposing Page Admin Identity
Facebook paid a teenage researcher from Nepal a $4,750 bug bounty reward for a vulnerability that could have been exploited to uncover the identity...
Meta Sues Hackers Behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Phishing Attacks
Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms on Monday said it has filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. state of California against bad actors who...
Facebook Bans 7 ‘Cyber Mercenary’ Companies for Spying on 50,000 Users
Meta Platforms on Thursday revealed it took steps to deplatform seven cyber mercenaries that it said carried out “indiscriminate” targeting of journalists, dissidents, critics...
Meta Targets ‘Cyber Mercenaries’ Using Facebook to Spy
Facebook parent Meta announced Thursday the shutdown of some 1,500 accounts tied to “cyber mercenary” companies accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists...
Facebook to Pay Hackers for Reporting Data Scraping Bugs and Scraped Datasets
Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced that it’s expanding its bug bounty program to start rewarding valid reports of scraping...
Facebook, GDPR and Max Schrems – Under the Hood of GDPR Legal Processes
In October 2021, The Irish Data Processing Commission (DPC) produced a Draft Decision on a complaint against Facebook originally raised by Max Schrems with...