Tag: Facebook

By: Will Hayter (Competition & Markets Authority Blog) Few people would doubt just how fundamental smartphones are to our lives. They are increasingly the main...

Meta is facing a federal lawsuit that says private medical data is being secretly shared with Facebook when patients access their healthcare providers’ web...

Facebook mostly lost its court bid to overturn the UK antitrust regulator’s decision that the acquisition of GIF search engine Giphy raised serious competition...

US Federal Trade Commission Chair (FTC) Lina Khan, who promised tougher antitrust enforcement, said she would not rule out a settlement with Meta's Facebook,...

The company formerly known as Facebook has produced a new revision of its Terms of Service and updated its privacy policy. The old Facebook Data Policy...

Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook, on Tuesday criticised a landmark German antitrust order to curb its data collection as 'clearly flawed' and which undermines...

Motherboard revealed that Facebook’s systems are designed in such a way that the company can struggle to track users’ data within its own systems, according to VICE. After...

The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that Germany’s consumer protection association could bring a legal challenge against Facebook parent Meta over data...

Meta Platforms will this week attempt to overturn a controversial order to sell off Giphy, in a four-day trial that will mark the biggest antitrust...

The relationship between privacy and competition law is complex and contentious. May or should competition agencies consider business conduct’s negative impact on privacy when...