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Facebook Says Community Help Feature Ready to Assist Florence Recovery Efforts
Sep 10 2018 // After a relatively slow start to the 2018 season, three hurricanes are now churning in the Atlantic on potential tracks toward the U.S. east coast and the Caribbean. Ahead of Hurricane Florence’s projected landfall...
Facebook, Twitter Face Lawmakers Over Liability, Privacy, Regulation
Sep 6 2018 // The more U.S. lawmakers learn about how Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. work, the more they want to know. In the latest congressional hearings on misinformation and election interference, which featured first-time...
New World of Digital Recruiting: Chatbots, Videos and Social Media
Aug 23 2018 // Long gone are the days when employees printed their resumes and cover letters on fancy paper, worried about choosing the proper font, and put both documents in the mail. The idea of employers printing paper job...
India Weighs Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill, Similar to EU’s GDPR
Jul 31 2018 // A draft of a sweeping data privacy bill has been submitted to India’s government that, if enacted, will restrict the transfer and storage of information on more than 1 billion people by global technology corporations...
First Facebook Investor Suit Filed Over Plunge in Shares
Jul 30 2018 // Facebook Inc. and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg were sued on Friday in what could be the first of many lawsuits over a disappointing earnings announcement by the social media company that wiped out about $120 billion...
Lawmakers Eye Holding Social Media Firms Liable for User Posts
Jul 19 2018 // Top Republican lawmakers on Tuesday attacked one of the legal protections most prized by social media companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc., questioning whether they should be held liable for...
German Heirs Can Access Deceased Relatives’ Facebook Accounts: Court
Jul 13 2018 // Heirs in Germany have the right to access the Facebook accounts of their deceased relatives, a court said in a landmark privacy ruling on Thursday, saying a social media account can be inherited in the same way as...
Facebook Faces £500,000 Fine in UK over Cambridge Analytica Data Privacy Violations
Jul 11 2018 // Facebook Inc. could be fined a symbolic 500,000 pounds ($664,000) by the U.K.’s privacy regulator after the social network giant failed to prevent key user data falling into the hands of a political consultancy that...
Facebook in Australia Faces Potential Class Action Suit over Data Privacy Breaches
Jul 10 2018 // Litigation funder IMF Bentham Ltd is preparing to potentially sue social media giant Facebook Inc in Australia over its sharing of users’ data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The world’s largest...
Dallas Federal Court Cuts $500M Verdict in Facebook VR Lawsuit in Half
Jun 28 2018 // A federal court in Dallas on June 27 halved the $500 million verdict that a jury ordered Facebook Inc., its virtual reality unit Oculus, and others to pay ZeniMax Media Inc., a video game publisher that alleged Oculus...
Class Action Alleges Facebook’s Ad Tools Discriminate Against Older Job Seekers
May 29 2018 // A proposed class action lawsuit alleging Facebook’s ad placement tools facilitate discrimination against older job-seekers has been expanded to identify additional companies, further widening the latest front in...
GDPR Day 1: Privacy Activist Files Complaints Against Tech Giants Over ‘Forced Consent’
May 25 2018 // As Europe’s new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it gives people over the data that companies want to collect about them. Austrian Max Schrems filed...
Microsoft to Extend EU Data Privacy Rights Globally. Facebook, Google Not Quite.
May 24 2018 // Microsoft promised this week to give users worldwide the same data and privacy rights Europeans will get under new regulations there. That’s in contrast to some of its tech rivals, who are hedging on how much privacy...
Judge Scolds Facebook for ‘Faulty Proposition’ Over Privacy Claims
May 15 2018 // A judge scolded Facebook Inc. for misconstruing his own rulings as he ordered the company to face a high-stakes trial accusing it of violating user privacy. The social media giant has misinterpreted prior court orders by...
With Just Weeks to Go for GDPR, Europe’s Regulators Say They’re Underfunded, Unprepared
May 9 2018 // FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS/PARIS— Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web. There’s one problem: many of the...
Facebook Loses Bid to Delay EU Data Privacy Suit
May 2 2018 // Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU...
Facebook Wants to Block Top EU Court from Getting Key Privacy Case
May 1 2018 // Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe’s top court by requesting a last-ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users’...
Facebook to Restrict Number of Users Protected Under EU’s New Privacy Law: Reuters
Apr 23 2018 // If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc. users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network...
Facebook Begins Complying with EU’s Privacy Rules; Global Users to Be Protected
Apr 18 2018 // Facebook Inc. is starting to comply with new privacy rules in Europe. And then, to get ahead of scrutiny everywhere else, the company said it will provide the same protections to the rest of its 2 billion users. Users in...
Indonesia MPs Grill Facebook Executives on Potential Data Misuse
Apr 17 2018 // A Facebook official apologized to Indonesian members of parliament on Tuesday during a five-hour grilling at a public hearing on issues ranging from the misuse of personal data to the oversight of content by the social...
