Tag: Facebook
Facebook’s Use Of Onavo Spyware In EU Crosshairs
Facebook’s use of the Onavo spyware VPN app it acquired in 2013, and used to inform its 2014 purchase of the then rival WhatsApp...
Facebook To Pay $550M To Settle Facial Recognition Suit
Facebook announced on Wednesday, January 29, that it had agreed to pay US$550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial...
DOJ Contacts Facebook’s Rivals In Antitrust Probe: Report
The US Department of Justice has reportedly been setting up interviews with Facebook's rivals as part of an antitrust investigation into the world's largest...
Italy threatens to fine Facebook in data fight
Italy's antitrust authority on Friday, January 24, started a procedure against Facebook for failing to comply with recommendations filed by the authority on November...
US: App developers sue Facebook over alleged “anticompetitive scheme”
Four companies sued Facebook in US federal court on Thursday for alleged anticompetitive conduct, saying the social network inappropriately revoked developer access to its...
UK: Facebook and eBay team up to ban users trading fake...
Facebook and eBay have removed hundreds of groups and accounts engaged in trading fake reviews, after the UK antitrust regulator flagged concerns over them...
China: Facebook defies China with new ad sales push
Facebook is setting up a new engineering team in Singapore to focus on its lucrative China advertising business, even as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg...
US: Telaria and Rubicon unite to take on Google/Facebook’s dominance
Public ad tech companies Telaria and Rubicon Project have agreed to merge as they try to make a stronger play in the growth of...
EU: Court boost for activist in Facebook data transfer fight
EU regulators must block tech companies from transferring data outside the bloc in cases in which privacy rules are broken, an advisor to the...
US: FTC considers blocking Facebook App integration
Officials at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are considering the possibility of a preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust issues related to how the...
