Australia Fines Facebook Owner Meta $14M for Failure to Disclose Data Collection July 26, 2023 By Byron Kaye An Australian court ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay fines totaling A$20 million ($14 million) for collecting user data...
Facebook Faces 2nd UK Class Action Lawsuit over Data Harvesting Scandal February 10, 2021 By Kirstin Ridley Facebook is facing a second London High Court class action over allegations it failed to protect the personal details of...
Facebook Faces UK Legal Action Involving Cambridge Analytica Scandal October 29, 2020 By Stephanie Bodoni Facebook Inc. risks being dragged into a UK legal dispute involving almost 1 million British users affected by the Cambridge...
Facebook to Pay $644,000 Fine in U.K. over Cambridge Analytica Scandal October 30, 2019 Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting...
Judge: Facebook ‘Could Not Be More Wrong’ in Cambridge Analytica Defense September 11, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt Facebook Inc. users suing over the social network’s worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to...
U.S. Announces $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook, Other Privacy Settlement Terms July 24, 2019 By David Shepardson Facebook Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and the...
Facebook Facing $5 Billion FTC Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Data Sharing July 15, 2019 By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into...
Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Drops Defamation Suit Against Facebook July 8, 2019 By Frank Bajak Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation...
D.C. Judge Lets Cambridge Analytica Privacy Suit Against Facebook Proceed June 4, 2019 By Andrew Harris, Bloomberg and Daniel R. Stoller Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’...
Facebook Must Turn Over Records on How Execs Handle Data Privacy, Judge Rules May 31, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. judge ordered Facebook Inc. to give shareholders emails and other records concerning how the social media company handles...